by Rebecca Walker — December 26, 2008—Performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, announced that it has expanded its industry-leading performance and condition monitoring technologies, EtaPRO and VirtualPlant, for use in nuclear power plants. Installed on more than 500 non-nuclear power plants world-wide, GP’s performance and condition monitoring technologies are industry-leading tools to help power plants to increase thermal efficiency and capacity, and reduce carbon emissions.
“GP traces its roots to the commercial nuclear power industry and we are excited about applying our proprietary monitoring technologies to help our nuclear customers achieve their performance goals for availability, capacity, and efficiency,” said Jeff Klein, Vice President of GP’s Nuclear Services. “With the latest release of EtaPRO and VirtualPlant, we now have in place the tools necessary for monitoring and modeling nuclear steam cycles in a modern software platform that leverages a plant’s existing infrastructure.”
GP’s EtaPRO is used in power plants to monitor, detect, trend, analyze, report and diagnose equipment and overall plant performance. EtaPRO’s VirtualPlant thermo-economic modeling software is used for validating process measurements and thermal output, diagnosing capacity losses, evaluating equipment upgrades, and providing real-time performance benchmarks.
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