OPTIMIZE THE PERFORMANCE OF CENTRAL UTILITIES

ThermalTech has extensive experience analyzing central heating and cooling plants, power generation systems, and other utilities systems. Our expertise includes steam and hot water boilers, power generation (diesel, natural-gas engines, steam and gas-fired turbines), cogeneration, electric/steam/ engine-driven chillers, thermal storage, compressed air, and various process systems.  

We help customers improve their existing operations and explore leading-edge technologies such as hybrid plants, CFB boilers, and fuel cells. We also can provide unbiased utility commodity purchasing through a strategic alliance with a specialty consultant.

The following are examples of ways we have helped our customers obtain the lower-cost and more flexible utility systems:

• Evaluate central plant versus distributed system options, fuel switching, energy recovery, burning waste fuel
• Model the distribution systems (steam, hydronic, compressed air, electrical networks) to reduce bottlenecks and plan for system growth
• Analyze reliability/redundancy alternatives based on business needs, such as a rotary UPS system combined with emergency generators to eliminate the need for a second utility feed
• Compare equipment selections based on life-cycle costs
• Evaluate high-performance designs, such as the "All-Variable-Speed" chilled-water plant 
• Create custom control algorithms, including optimal dispatch of equipment