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Power Plant Operators

Tools and Technology


Tools Include:

  • Absorbent booms (Absorbers)
  • Facial shields (Air filtration mask)
  • Process air heaters (Air heaters)
  • Graphic recorders (Analog panel meters)
  • Alarm systems (Annunciators)
  • Process air heaters (Attemperators)
  • Belt conveyors
  • Blowers
  • Sight flow windows (Boiler gauge glasses)
  • Bucket conveyors (Bucket elevators)
  • Catalytic combustion analyzers (Catalytic sensors)
  • Chain conveyors
  • Water tube boiler (Circulating fluidized bed CFB boilers)
  • Air dryers (Coal dryers)
  • Gas engines (Combustion engines)
  • Turbine engines (Combustion turbines)
  • Condensing units (Condensers)
  • Conductivity meters (Conductivity probes)
  • Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards (Control boards)
  • Evaporative coolers (Cooling towers)
  • Desktop computers
  • Diesel generators (Diesel driven generators)
  • Graphic recorders (Digital panel meters)
  • Digital readout recorders (Digital readouts)
  • Direct current DC motors
  • Air scrubbers (Dry scrubber systems)
  • Substation load control switchgears (Electrical switch gear)
  • Electrostatic apparatus (Excitation systems)
  • Heat exchangers (Fin fan heat exchangers)
  • Fire tube boilers
  • Flowmeters (Flow meters)
  • Flow transmitters
  • Air scrubbers (Flue gas desulferization systems)
  • Combustible or hazardous gas detectors for power generators (Gas detectors)
  • Gas generators
  • Thermal engines (Geothermal binary turbines)
  • Grease guns
  • Hard hats
  • Heat pumps
  • Steam generators (Heat recovery steam generators)
  • Boiler or Heater Ignitor (Igniters)
  • Impact crushers
  • Level sensors or transmitters (Level transmitters)
  • Limit switches
  • Mainframe computers
  • Motor compressors
  • Oil filters
  • Oil gun (Oil guns)
  • Venturis (Orifice plates)
  • Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards (Panel boards)
  • Heat exchangers (Plate exchangers)
  • Power supply transformers (Power transformers)
  • Pressure transmitters
  • Pulverizing machinery (Pulverizers)
  • Sampling pumps (Purge pumps)
  • Rotameters
  • Fixed screens (Screens)
  • Conveyor screw (Screw conveyors)
  • Wet scrubbers (Selective catalytic reactors)
  • Wet scrubbers (Selective non-catalytic reactors)
  • Respiration air supplying self contained breathing apparatus or accessories (Self-contained breathing apparatus)
  • Heat exchangers (Shell and tube heat exchangers)
  • Signal converters
  • Blowers (Soot blowers)
  • Condensing units (Steam condensers)
  • Steam engines (Steam distribution systems)
  • Steam generators (Steam driven turbogenerators)
  • Pressure indicators (Steam gauges)
  • Steam engines (Steam turbines)
  • Switchyard disconnect switches (Switch yard equipment)
  • Temperature transmitters
  • Touch screen monitors
  • Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards (Transformer controls)
  • Flowmeters (Turbine flow meters)
  • Electrical or power regulators (Unit governors)
  • Vacuum pumps
  • Vibration testers (Vibration monitors)
  • Water filters
  • Pressure indicators (Water gauges)
  • Commercial water heaters (Water heaters)
  • Water pumps
  • Water softening accessories (Water softeners)
  • Water purification equipment (Water treatment equipment)
  • Wet scrubbers

Technologies Include:

  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Electronic mail software
  • Email software
  • Facilities management software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS software
  • Industrial control software
  • Continuous emissions monitoring systems CEMS software
  • Distributed control systems DCS software
  • Emerson Ovation
  • Gas field monitoring system software
  • General Electric Mark VI Distributed Control System DCS
  • General Electric Mark VI Integrated Control System ICS
  • Interlock shutdown systems
  • Safety instrumented system SIS software
  • Siemens Power Plant Automation SPPA
  • Siemens Teleperm
  • Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
  • Teknik Segala OSI Plant Information PI System
  • Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS
  • Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word



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