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. The site included a steam header fed by multiple exhaust and extraction sources from three turbines. A supply of steam at 10 psi was critical to the heating and sterilization processes of the hospital.
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. Peaker Services programmed a complex cascade PID loop into three Woodward 505XTs to provide a continuous and reliable supply steam to the hospital.
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 fit the Mayo Clinic's needs.
10 psi
Easy access
Improved accuracy
Greater tuning capability
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 fit the Mayo Clinic's needs.