Mayo Clinic Modernization Optimizes Turbines for Hospital Sterilization
The Challenge
The power plant needed to upgrade their obsolete controls to ensure continuous steam to the hospital. A supply of 10 psi steam is critical to the heating and sterilization processes of the hospital. The site includes a steam header that is fed by multiple exhaust and extraction sources from the three turbines.
Our Solution
New controls were installed to allow for greater control over the steam turbines ensuring a reliable supply of critical steam to the hospital. A complex cascade PID loop was programmed by Peaker Services into three Woodward 505XTs to provide a continuous supply of the critical hospital steam.
Mayo Clinic Modernization Optimizes Turbines for Hospital Sterilization
New actuator installed allows for greater precision, increasing system reliability.
The Mayo Clinic Hospital utilized three steam turbines with the primary purpose of creating steam for the hospital. In order to provide the proper amount of heating and sterilizing steam, it was necessary to maintain a continuous supply of steam at 10 psi. Due to our expertise in turbine controls and controls optimization, Peaker was brought in to install, tune and train staff on new controls designed to the Mayo Clinic's needs.
10 psi
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Improved accuracy
The Mayo Clinic Hospital utilized three steam turbines with the primary purpose of creating steam for the hospital. In order to provide the proper amount of heating and sterilizing steam, it was necessary to maintain a continuous supply of steam at 10 psi. Due to our expertise in turbine controls and controls optimization, Peaker was brought in to install, tune and train staff on new controls designed to the Mayo Clinic's needs.