This document advertises and provides information about the Nuclear Maintenance and Plant Modernization Conference happening on May 25-26, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference will focus on effective operations and maintenance strategies to improve efficiency, increase output, and reduce outage times. Speakers will discuss topics like predictive maintenance, understanding costs and return on investment, plant reliability assessments, safety and regulatory issues, and managing resources and workforces. The document provides an agenda, speaker information, pricing details, and encourages attendees to register before certain dates to receive discounts.
Effective O&M strategies to deliver efficiencies, increase output and reduce outage times to improve ROI
•Preparing for Maintenance: Recognize the importance of predictive and preventative maintenance when planning repairs to ensure maintenance tasks run smoothly
•Understand Costs and Optimize ROI:Discover how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to improve operations and increase your annual income
•Plant Reliability Assessment: Learn about plant equipment to ensure it will continue to perform to meet your expectations in the future
•Safety & Regulatory Update:Ensure adequate safety margins and regulatory compliance and understand why this is critical to your customers, employees and shareholders
•Resources & The Workforce: Understand the demand for personnel across the industry and how this may put a strain on your resources for O &M
Overvoltages are an increase of voltage on the electric line, measure between two conductors, which can produce damage on the installations
and the electric equipments.
There are two different types: transient and permanent.
Permanent or power frequency overvoltages are characterized by relatively long duration (several cycles) There are usually caused by:
- Defect connection of the neutral.
- Power consumption lowered.
Transient overvoltages are very short duration increases in voltage
between two conductors or between a conductor and the ground. They
can be on account of atmospheric electrical discharges (lightning), by
switching or by electrical faults (contact with earth or short circuit).
Particularly, the Earth Termination System is essential for Lightning Protection,
since the lightning current should disperse there. Each down-conductor must
have an Earth Termination System, formed by conductive elements in contact
with the soil and able to disperse the lightning current in it.
Effective O&M strategies to deliver efficiencies, increase output and reduce outage times to improve ROI
•Preparing for Maintenance: Recognize the importance of predictive and preventative maintenance when planning repairs to ensure maintenance tasks run smoothly
•Understand Costs and Optimize ROI:Discover how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to improve operations and increase your annual income
•Plant Reliability Assessment: Learn about plant equipment to ensure it will continue to perform to meet your expectations in the future
•Safety & Regulatory Update:Ensure adequate safety margins and regulatory compliance and understand why this is critical to your customers, employees and shareholders
•Resources & The Workforce: Understand the demand for personnel across the industry and how this may put a strain on your resources for O &M
Overvoltages are an increase of voltage on the electric line, measure between two conductors, which can produce damage on the installations
and the electric equipments.
There are two different types: transient and permanent.
Permanent or power frequency overvoltages are characterized by relatively long duration (several cycles) There are usually caused by:
- Defect connection of the neutral.
- Power consumption lowered.
Transient overvoltages are very short duration increases in voltage
between two conductors or between a conductor and the ground. They
can be on account of atmospheric electrical discharges (lightning), by
switching or by electrical faults (contact with earth or short circuit).
Particularly, the Earth Termination System is essential for Lightning Protection,
since the lightning current should disperse there. Each down-conductor must
have an Earth Termination System, formed by conductive elements in contact
with the soil and able to disperse the lightning current in it.
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Remote Services Deployment Project Management Customer in Focus Connectivity Models It’s all About Data! Next Steps in the Journey
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Shutdowns and turnarounds impact the maintenance budget severely and if not managed efficiently will have a major impact on the organization’s bottom line. Whilst the global economy recovers and Oil and Gas prices are volatile it is crucial to avoid costly unplanned shutdowns. Therefore efficient planning, scheduling and cost management are required to ensure successful shutdowns and turnarounds.
Local and international industry experts from the oil, gas and petrochemical industries will gather to address advanced strategies to optimise the turnaround process.
Let’s be honest: maintenance is not the most glamorous topic milling. It is rarely something that gets people excited or attracts a great deal of new inventions and technologies. However, I hear time and time again that well looked after equipment is just as important as raw materials in producing a top quality end product.
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Advanced Monitoring Technologies: Data analysis - condition monitoring and SCADA solutions that have not only proof of concept, but proven ROI
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There are many advantages of using exothermic welding. The most important one being that the process produces a molecular joint and not just a mechanical one in between the conductors.
In this way, Apliweld® guarantees all types of common joints, not only copper cable unions but also to weld tapes, brass metallic pieces, stainless steel, steel ground rods covered with copper, etc…
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"IPQC’s The Remote Device Monitoring Summit is the only North American cross-industry remote diagnostics and smart services event for service executives. It will provide you a chance to network with industry thought leaders in prognostics, data analytics, services marketing and remote tools in highly complex environments. This summit will serve as a roadmap for remote service deployment combining both business and technology aspects of deployment projects. Join us as we review these key points and more:
Remote Services Deployment Project Management Customer in Focus Connectivity Models It’s all About Data! Next Steps in the Journey
"
The article "DoD Coordination and Collaboration on Biometric Standards Activities" written by me is published in the January/March 2009 issue of the Defense Standardization Program Journal.
This CSC Trusted Cloud Services white paper explores the opportunities now presented to independent software vendors and developers thanks to cloud computing solutions. CSC is enabling ISVs to deliver Software-as-a-Service, creating new value and transforming business models.
Shutdowns and Turnarounds 2010, is taking place from 28 November – 1 December 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.
Shutdowns and turnarounds impact the maintenance budget severely and if not managed efficiently will have a major impact on the organization’s bottom line. Whilst the global economy recovers and Oil and Gas prices are volatile it is crucial to avoid costly unplanned shutdowns. Therefore efficient planning, scheduling and cost management are required to ensure successful shutdowns and turnarounds.
Local and international industry experts from the oil, gas and petrochemical industries will gather to address advanced strategies to optimise the turnaround process.
Let’s be honest: maintenance is not the most glamorous topic milling. It is rarely something that gets people excited or attracts a great deal of new inventions and technologies. However, I hear time and time again that well looked after equipment is just as important as raw materials in producing a top quality end product.
This document in about Decos Offshoring and Software Model. In this document the Concept of Offshoring, Nearshoring, Offshoring Delivery Model, Decos Offshore Model with Decos Experience and Decos Quality has been discussed.
Utilize the latest industry experience, proven technology and O&M strategies to maximize generation and reduce costs in your wind farm
North America's leading O&M focused conference is back for its fourth year, completely refreshed and re-formatted for total coverage. This is the only forum that will give you the direction and tools you need to build a comprehensive strategy to ensure success in this booming market.
Over 300 senior O&M decision makers will be in attendance to network, do business and exchange the latest industry updates. Our world class agenda will equip you with business critical information:
End of warranty options (EOW) presented: Get the blueprint for end of warranty options whether it's re-entering warranty, using an ISP or performing self service
Retrofit technology & Repowering: Understand the various types of technology available today that can be implemented in your wind operations for maximized generation
Advanced Monitoring Technologies: Data analysis - condition monitoring and SCADA solutions that have not only proof of concept, but proven ROI
Life extension of critical components: Find out what can be done to your current wind farms that will extend their life and see grater ROI on your O&M dollars
Major Part Failure, Upgrading & Repair: Discover the latest R&D that is being undertaken to reduce failure or damage to your rotor, Blade, Generator, Gearboxes, Foundations, Tower
“Clinical Grade" Requirements to Enable a Mobile Health and Advanced Workflow Environment by Laurence Beaulieu; Chief Architect, Healthcare Solutions
Nortel Business Solutions
There are many advantages of using exothermic welding. The most important one being that the process produces a molecular joint and not just a mechanical one in between the conductors.
In this way, Apliweld® guarantees all types of common joints, not only copper cable unions but also to weld tapes, brass metallic pieces, stainless steel, steel ground rods covered with copper, etc…
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increase output and reduce outage times to
improve ROI KEYNOTE PRESENTATION FROM:
Preparing for Maintenance: Recognize the
importance of predictive and preventative
maintenance when planning repairs to ensure
maintenance tasks run smoothly
European Commission
Understand Costs and Optimize ROI: Discover
UTILITY PERSPECTIVES FROM:
how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to
improve operations and increase your annual
income
Plant Reliability Assessment: Learn about plant
equipment to ensure it will continue to perform to
meet your expectations in the future
Safety & Regulatory Update: Ensure adequate
safety margins and regulatory compliance and
understand why this is critical to your customers,
employees and shareholders OTHER EXPERTS FROM:
Resources & The Workforce: Understand the
demand for personnel across the industry and how
this may put a strain on your resources for O&M
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"Comprehensive and informative – good insight
into lessons learnt.”
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Dear Colleague, What We Are Going To
New build, new build, new build… What about the current fleet? With Do For You?
utilities in Europe taking huge strides to secure life extensions for their
operating fleet, it is more important than ever to understand the Practical information and knowledge
options available for refurbishment, modernization and general sharing are at the forefront of our
maintenance. Nuclear Maintenance and Plant
Modernization Conference. We are
With the announcement from EDF to look at 60 year lifetimes for their
current fleet in France, costing approximately €400 to €600 million per
committed to ensuring that you not
unit, maintenance issues are costly but necessary. Operation and only go away with new contacts but
maintenance costs are country-specific but depend heavily on the an up-to-date, relevant wealth of
utility managing the plant. They include manpower costs, annual O&M information so that you can leave
investments, periodic equipment replacement, national and regional
knowing how your business is going
taxes, insurance and company overheads. O&M costs are a major slice
of a utility’s spend and are estimated to be around 25% of a NPPs to move forward…
yearly budget.
With 196 operating nuclear plants across Europe, there are a large 1 Prepare for understanding
projects by
future maintenance
number of owners who will be assessing the prospects of life
extensions and the subsequent maintenance tasks that follow. It is
predictive and preventative
more important than ever to learn from the experts who have maintenance
implemented successful refurbishment strategies for their operating
plants. 2 for maintenancefull extentensure
Understand the
work to
of costs
Maintenance and modernization projects are costly and technically that your plans will recoup an
challenging. If costs and outage times are to be reduced then careful optimal return on investment
planning is required and common sense strategies must be put in place.
In order to do that some of the following challenges will be faced:
3 Assess the reliability equipment will
to understand what
of your plant
• Maintaining operational safety continue to perform to meet your
• Long-term operations strategy
future expectations
• Refurbishment planning
•
•
Makeup, aging and obsolescence
Reliability of equipment performance 4 Hear about theensure you have a
resources and
demand for new
• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Resources and availability
suitable workforce to carry out
future projects
The Nuclear Maintenance and Plant Modernization Conference will
supply your business with the critical intelligence and tools you need to
understand e ective O&M strategies to deliver e ciencies, increase Who will be there?
output and reduce outage times to improve ROI. Delivered by the best Senior level decision makers from
in the industry – you’ll be able to take away key lessons and real world utilities/owners who want to discover the
action points that you can implement to save millions of €uro’s. latest technologies and services for planning
and executing nuclear maintenance and
The conference will be bringing together 150 operations and refurbishment projects.
maintenance experts for two days of business critical intelligence,
unrivalled networking and stimulating discussion. With senior level
representatives from European utilities, lead contractors and equipment
Utility/Owner
30%
providers and specialist service companies – can you a ord to miss
out? Lead Contractor
30%
I look forward to seeing you in Brussels in May. Sub Contractor
10%
Kindest regards, Specialist Services
10%
Dean Murphy
Senior Industry Analyst
Public Sector
7%
Nuclear Energy Insider
Tel: +44 (0) 207 375 7204
Email: dmurphy@eyeforenergy.com
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TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA SO FAR…
Section 1 – Operational Safety and Regulatory Oskarshamn Case Study: Modernization of Unit 2
• Review the safety and reliability aspects of work taking place at
Issues Oskarshamn 2
• Take a look at the design and manufacturing work and how the
European Commission: Legislations for the Operating challenges causing project delays have been overcome
Nuclear Fleet • Moving on to the final step: Looking forward to the completion of the
• Understand current regulations and legislations in place to ensure project in 2013
safety during O&M tasks
• Review the work that the European Commission are doing to aid the USA Case Study: Cross-Geographical Learning
operating nuclear fleet • Hear about the business case drivers that support refurbishment work
• Lessons learned from past O&M projects to ensure optimum safety in the USA
for your projects • Learn about OPPD’s Fort Calhoun Station refurbishment work
Massimo Garriba, Legal questions & Euratom coordination, international including the replacement of its steam generators, pressurizer,
relations – nuclear, European Commission reactor vessel head and low pressure turbines
• Assess the effectiveness of the work – was the refurbishment a
beneficial investment?
Assuring adequate safety margins after Arun Mani, Partner - Global Energy Consulting Practice, PA Consulting
modification/modernization projects
• Understand the attributes of a strong preliminary and final safety
analysis Section 3 – Business Case
• Learn about technical specifications for modernization projects
• Assure sufficient safety margins during upgrade tasks Business case for aging management and life extension
Hoa Hoang, Power Uprate Product Line Leader, GE Hitachi Nuclear • Should we be investing in modernization now or focus our efforts
Energy elsewhere?
• Understand all costs associated with operations and maintenance and
UK SAPS justification requirements for support of plant whether refurbishment and modernization is a good financial option
for your sites
modifications • Understand whether your plant modernization efforts will provide a
• Fully understand the PWR safety margins and safety analysis sufficient return on investment?
requirements for plant modifications • Take a look at how you can plan refurbishments and upgrades to
• Review the UK requirements for modifications and compare them levelize your spending
with international practice John Fownes, Growth Leader, Aging Management, Westinghouse
• Hear about the necessities of compliance with current and new
regulations and how this is critical to your customers, employees and
shareholders Insurance
Dr John Lillington, Serco • Evaluate nuclear insurance risk to aid future maintenance and
refurbishment projects
• Understand third party liability and how this will affect your projects
Section 2 - Utility Perspectives and Mark Tetley, Managing Director, Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd
Cross-Geographical Learning Dr Mike Peach, Technical Manager, Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd
Swiss Case Study: Strategy for long-term operation of Section 4 – Plant Reliability and Efficiency
the NPP Beznau Unit 1 and 2 (KKB)
• Gain an understanding of the requirements and remits faced by AXPO Strategies for Make Up, Aging & Obsolescence
when evaluating for extended operation at NPP Beznau • Discuss the different possible strategies for make up for aging &
• Hear how AXPO mitigated potential risks when planning their forward obsolescence with an in-depth look at:
strategy and how this can be implemented on similar projects o components storage
• Hear how AXPO managed plant staff and materials in order to ensure o cloning with FPGA (field-programmable gate array)
successful project execution o new system
• Simple steps you can take to ensure your future operations are • Understand the benefits and drawbacks from Edf
economically Edf
Herbert Rust, Deputy Site Director, Axpo AG
A long-term approach to operations after 40
Czech Republic Case Study: Long-term refurbishment • Understand the evaluation of long-term operations to ensure future
planning at Dukovany NPP safe operations
• Understand the importance of creating a forward plan looking at the • Understand the financial impacts of life extensions and future
history and maintenance records of your nuclear site operations
• Understand the essentials of equipment replacement, material • Review the work that Electrabel have been implementing to ensure
concerns and ageing management long-term operations
• Create a blueprint for capital increase before performing Geert Backaert, Project Manager Long Term Operation, Electrabel
modernization tasks
Jaroslav Jakub, Maintenance Manager, Dukovany NPP, ČEZ Equipment obsolescence
• Hear how you can find replacement parts during refurbishment and
Swedish Case Study: Plant Modernization at Ringhals AB ensure delays are avoided - Is the supplier for that system or
• Understand the key issues regarding heavy component replacement component still in business?
to help ensure your modernization projects run smoothly • How Investing heavily into equipment by utilities will help to avoid
• Learn about the importance of digital instrumentation and control future difficulties during modernization attempts
systems modernization when undertaking NPP upgrade work • Understand the importance of whether or not your plant system is
Lars Eliasson, Vice President Ringhals AB, Vattenfall able to operate reliably for future years without significant investment
• Understand whether or not it is a better long-term investment to buy
a new component or reverse-engineer the ones you have - can you
obtain the parts?
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Long-term refurbishment planning Section 5 - Resources
• Understand the importance of creating a 10 year plan looking at the
history and maintenance records of your nuclear site The role of contractors
• Understand the essentials of equipment replacement, material • Understand what resources are needed from contractors for specific
concerns and ageing management tasks and how they should be utilized
• Create a blueprint for capital increase before performing • Understand whether or not contractors will have the resources
modernization tasks available to you to ensure work is not delayed or postponed
Areva Steve McClure, Vice Chairman, Britain’s Energy Coast Business Cluster
Reliability of a power plant Market Entry for New Companies
• Are you confident that your equipment will continue to perform to • Fully understand the standards and quality levels that are required to
meet your expectations in the future? gain entry into the nuclear market
• Understand how we can maintain the reliability of our plant • Hear about the health and safety requirements that will be essential
• Hear tips on how to increase our time online to 95%-97% + to help position your organization in the industry
Jaro Holubec, Head of Nuclear Generation, Slovenské elektrárne • Gain a clear understanding of the skills required for you to become
active in the nuclear market
Retrofitting – dealing with mechanical issues
• Understand the importance of spending your money on retrofitting to The French Resources Experience
deal with potential long-term issues • Understand how the International Nuclear Academy are working to
• Take a look at some relevant case studies of retrofitting projects from bridge the skills gap in France
around the globe • Learn about the proactive initiatives being implemented by the
Alstom Power French industry to overcome the lack of skills and resources within
the industry
Preventive and predictive maintenance Anne-Sophie Defay, Business Development O cer, International
• Understand the importance of the following during modernization Nuclear Academy
o Repair
o Inspection
HERE IS THE
o Surveillance
o Workforce
• The importance of predicative maintenance, why we need to do this
and how to build our strategy towards this
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NUCLEAR MODERNIZATION – THE Department for Nuclear Power Stations with the
responsibility of the development of Flamanvile, Iter
FACTS! and Cofrentes projects, among others.
To celebrate the launch of our inaugural Nuclear
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2011, I’m giving away access to a presentation from in it for your business. If you have any comments or
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from June 2010.
Kind Regards,
Modernization and Power Uprates in Nuclear
Power Plants Dean Murphy
In this presentation, Mr Alejandro Merino Senior Industry Analyst
Teillet, Project Manager with Iberdrola Ingenieria y Nuclear Energy Insider
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power uprates
• The importance of implementation of
equipment modifications and retrofitting
during projects
• Lessons learnt from IBERDROLA on the
experience they have learned from outages
during modification tasks
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