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WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL 2018
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08:30
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REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
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09:00
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CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Sean Atton, HSE Manager, Drax Power Limited
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09.10
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KEYNOTE: ENERGY CHALLENGES AND THE CAPACITY
MARKET
Tim Gregory, Senior EMR Analyst, National
Grid
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OPTIMISING OPERATOR
INTERFACE AND OPERATING STRATEGY
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09:35
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OPTIMISATION OF CCGT FLEXIBILITY
Matt Farrand-Laine, Lead C&I Engineer,
RWE Generation
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Reduced start time, reduced gas burn, increased
reliability
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Improved operator interface, sequencing and alarm
handling
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Operator development utilising a simulator
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10:00
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OPTIMISING PLANT OPERATING STRATEGY THROUGH
DIGITALLY-ENABLED ASSET MANAGEMENT
Graeme Gordon, Project Engineer , Doosan Babcock
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Traditional Asset Management tools are no longer best
suited to the increasingly challenging operational demands on power plant
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How to update best practice approaches to more
proactively understand the impact of operations and improve decision making
by incorporating digital technologies
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This talk (including case studies) demonstrates how a
practical digital approach can optimise OPEX & CAPEX investment, and
enhance the decision making for hands on operations staff
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10:25
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NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
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10:55
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ALARMS MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE AND STANDARDS
Andrew Lichnowski, Associate Senior Consultant, Engineering
Equipment and Material Users Association (EEMUA)
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Development of alarms management good
practice
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EEMUA 191 Alarms Systems: a guide to
design, management and procurement
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IEC 62682 Standard: management of alarm
systems for the process industries
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11:20
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QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
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Safe and compliant operation
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11:35
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AS DRAX EVOLVES, SO DOES THE CYBER
CHALLENGE!
Martin Sloan, Group Head of Information Security, Drax
Power Limited
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What the Security of Networks and Information Systems
Directive means to Drax Group and other organisations
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Geopolitics, Industrial Cyber Attacks and ever-changing
threat landscape with case studies discussed
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Buy in and engagement at the board/manager/operator/technician
levels (what and what not to say…)
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12:00
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THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION
SYSTEM: A USER’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Fleet Lead Electrical
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Overview of EDF Energy
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Overview of Challenges (including inertia and rate of
change of frequency, short circuit fault levels, voltage control and black
start restoration times)
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Opportunities to support the NET System Operator: can
inflexible generation flex? And life after generation (Synchronous
Compensators)
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12:25
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NETWORKING LUNCH
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13:25
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IMPACT OF CHANGING
MARKETS ON BOTH OPERATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND COMPONENT INTEGRITY
Colin Wignall,
Structural & Flow Analysis Team, Integrity & Inspection Solutions
Department, Uniper Technologies Limited
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The difficulty of simply relating both temperature and
pressure transient responses to damage accumulation
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Example of how component design affects both the stresses
and damage accumulation
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Examples of how the change in the electricity market
has influenced plant operation, and the consequences of this, with respect to
component damage
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13:50
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QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSSION
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MAINTENANCE AND
PRESERVATION OF PLANT
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14:05
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HOW EXPERIMENTAL
RIGS HAVE SUPPORTED SAFE AND EXTENDED OPERATION OF THE AGR BOILERS
Eleanor Laney,
Chemist, EDF Energy
James Meldrum,
Senior Consultant, Wood
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Introduction to AGR operational boiler chemistry and plant
preservation
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How the chemistry is controlled
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How experimental rigs at Wood have been used for the
last 30 years to support continued operation
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14:30
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MAINTENANCE
OF BASELOAD PLANT – A BIOMASS PERSPECTIVE
Pete
Smithson, Plant Manager, BWSC Generation Services UK Ltd
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Obtaining the right balance between reactive and
planned maintenance: the challenges faced on a new plant to achieve the
correct level of maintenance
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Achieving first line maintenance: the opportunities to
ensure all persons have ownership for maintenance within their plant area
responsibility
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Annual outage management: the reality of delivering a
first annual outage on a newly commissioned site
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14:55
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NETWORKING
REFRESHMENT BREAK
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15:25
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HOW MATURE ASSET
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES DELIVERS SUCCESS FOR POWER PLANT OWNER AND OPERATOR –
THE O&M TRILEMMA
Sean Grundy,
O&M Asset Manager Severn Power, Siemens plc
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The risk to contractual relationships posed by
inappropriate decisions
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How values and beliefs can create a supplier and client
virtual team
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The role of Asset Management in win-win decision
processes
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15:50
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LEVERAGING AUGMENTED REALITY: CONNECTING
DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL WORLDS IN ENERGY
Arjun Chohan, Digital Engineering Solutions,
Uniper Technologies Limited
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Physical activity on sites can often be isolated from
colleague expertise and digital systems
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Augmented reality devices such as Microsoft HoloLens
offer a powerful means of connecting these otherwise-separated elements
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This talk will cover approaches to achieving augmented
reality solutions, including both the benefits and challenges
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16:15
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QUESTION AND ANSWER
SESSION
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16:30
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PANEL DISCUSSION:
HOW TO MAXIMISE COLLABORATION BETWEEN MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION TEAMS
Matt Farrand-Laine, Lead C&I Engineer,
RWE Generation
Martin Sloan, Group Head of Information Security, Drax
Power Limited
Pete
Smithson, Plant Manager, BWSC Generation Services UK Ltd
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Challenges to cooperation
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Strategies to increase collaboration and mutual support
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How to best implement new ways of working
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17:00
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CHAIR’S CLOSING
REMARKS
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17:05
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END OF SEMINAR
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