FMHL (Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman SA) is the owner’s company that belongs to the shareholders Romande Energie SA, Alpiq Suisse SA, Groupe E SA and City of Lausanne. Alpiq, as owners’ representative, is in charge of the supervision of the study and the implementation of the extension project and the operator is Hydro Exploitation SA. The FMHL power plant is a 240 MW pumped-storage power plant ...

The concern of risk management has continuously increased in international construction projects. International projects have a high level of risk and complexity, which results in greater possibilities of cost overruns and schedule conflicts when compared with local projects. Therefore, the goal of risk management is to improve project performance by systematically identifying and assessing pro...

To perform Industrial power plant monitoring and control using CAN and ZIGBEE by collecting the real time parameters and to control if it exceeds the pre-defined value. Implementation of this project in a power plant is to monitor and control the real time temperature, power (voltage and current), intruder security, water level, and fire along with safe and secure operations. This project is on...

Background: Small capacity, low temperature, geothermal heat sources provide significant opportunities for distributed, small scale power generation. Project definitions and pre-dimensioning however require advanced thermodynamic engineering at a cost independent of project size. In order to reduce this cost, a new method has been developed to allow basic level engineers to perform pre-optimisa...

Organizational learning (OL) is a crucial component of operational excellence in nuclear power plants. OL relies on performance assessments, change management and continuous improvements. OL has become increasingly important for the nuclear industry with regards to adaptation to changes in the political and economic environment, work force, technology within plants, and organizations of the nuc...

The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) concluded in connection with the construction of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant that the performance of the organisations involved in the project and the interaction between the organisations did not in all respects meet the expectations that STUK has on good safety culture during the construction phase of a power plant. The identified prob...

This demonstration project was intended to repower an existing plant facility, the Lakeside Station in Springfield, Illinois. A single Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) process train was planned to generate a net output of 60 megawatts. The plant consists of a combined cycle (gas turbine, heat recovery steam generator, steam turbine) power train located in the existing buildings and...

The paper examines design and operating data of current concentrated solar power (CSP) 10 solar tower (ST) plants. The study includes CSP with or without boost by combustion of natural gas 11 (NG) and with or without thermal energy storage (TES). The study then reviews the novel trends to 12 produce better ratio of solar field power to electric power, better capacity factor, better matching of ...