Master Utility Control Consultant

Master Utility Control Consultant

Position Type: Contract (3-month assignment).

Position Location: Houston, TX (Flexible on office & location as there are multiple to work from)

Position Pay: Open to Market

Responsibilities:

• This person will have a strong power generation background.
• Knowledge in design of boilers (solid fuel, natural gas, and fuel oil-fired), heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), gas turbines, steam turbines, cooling towers, control valve sizing/selection, as well as installation and operational problem solving.
• Must have experience in constructing control algorithm using SAMA drawing.
• Experienced with power plant performance testing utilizing ASME PTC test codes (PTC 4, PTC4.4, PTC 6, PTC 46, PTC 19.1, PTC 19.5, PTC 22, and other referenced codes).
• Experience in turbine controls and trips controls
• Professional Engineer (P.E.)
• Major Task - Develop Master Plant Controls narratives for CHP plant that encompasses:
  • 2 x 1 CHP Combined Cycle plant
  • 2 – Siemens SGT700 CTGs
  • 2 – Victory HRSGs, single pressure level, nom 1050 psig/900 F
  • 2 – Victory supplied John Zinc duct burner systems
  • 1 – Siemens Auto Extraction STG with surface condenser
  • Generator breakers
  • Step-up transformers
  • Plant aux transformers
  • Utility Interconnections
  • Island Mode Operation
  • Generator Loading configurations.
    • Load Following (CTG, STG)
    • Inlet Pressure Control
    • Operator Manual Set Points
    • Duct Firing (STG Load, HPS, IPS Inputs)
  • System Start-up (At least cold, but maybe warm and hot?)
  • Normal system shut-down and individual units.
  • System Trips (total plant and individual units)
  • Steam bypasses (HP to IP, and IP to condenser
  • Sky Valves (system start-up and trips)
  • Develop alarms and trip points for above.
• Review Logic diagrams for DHC and CHP
  • Review and develop missing alarm/trip set points.
• Assist with review/mark-up of P&IDs including TDP-1 modifications.
• Assist with review/edits of System Descriptions
  • Complete sections that are incomplete (Est. number TBD)
  • Complete tables of set-points (Est. number TDB)

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Power plant controls engineer with experience in combined cycle power and/or combined heat and power utilizing CTGs, Fired HRSGs, and Auto Extraction STGs.
• Experience with development of plant Master Controls narratives and SAMA logic diagrams.
• Experience with development of alarm and trip set points for generation equipment and related BOP systems.

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