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October 17
Introducing ORAP Data Fusion™ - Predict and Prepare

​Strategic Power Systems, Inc. (SPS®) is pleased to announce the introduction of ORAP Data Fusion™.  Developed with the support of a National Lab, ORAP Data Fusion allows plants to utilize their ORAP data as never before.  This service provides game-changing machine learning techniques that allow power plant Asset Managers the ability to PREDICT and PREPARE for the adverse behavior of physical systems, components, materials, and designs, while providing sufficient time and guidance for cost effective corrective action.  

Equally as important, ORAP Data Fusion takes into account changing service demands based on required operating flexibility (e.g., fast starts, hard stops, rapid ramp rates, and load following in support of renewables), providing details that allow action to be taken directly at the plant.

Unique to this process is the 35+ years of historical operating data only available in ORAP. ORAP facilitates the transfer of learning and experiences, on an anonymized fleet basis, from one plant operator to another. Operators who have not yet experienced emerging field problems and issues to learn from those who have. Mitigation and planning steps may then be taken earlier to avoid costly and disruptive forced outages.


To learn more email inquiries@spsinc.com.




January 6
Bizkaia Energia Chooses ORAP Asset Insight™ Dynamics+ Combustion Dynamics Early Warning System
Bizkaia Energia, owner of the Amorebieta Combined Cycle plant in Spain, will partner with Strategic Power Systems, Inc. (SPS) and Turbine Logic, an expert in combustion dynamics, to proactively monitor their gas turbine combustion health.

Turbine Logic’s Dynamics+ combined with the automated data capabilities of SPS’ ORAP Asset Insight tool will allow Bizkaia Energia to automatically monitor the unique combustion signature of their gas turbines and alert operators to relevant combustion system faults. The physics-based combustion model and patented machine learning algorithms in Dynamics+ provides prognostic capabilities that surpass simplistic trending and threshold alarming. Dynamics+ detects and differentiates changes due to instrumentation issues, tuning problems, or impending hardware failures, before dynamics force an unplanned outage or cause damage to plant equipment.

Jon Willis, Director of SPS’ International UK office commented, “We are delighted to be supporting Bizkaia Energia and partnering with the Turbine Logic team as we continue to deploy SPS’ ORAP Asset Insight suite of Digital Innovation products and subscription services globally.”


December 1
Harnessing data fusion to optimize stressed power plant performance - NEW Gas Turbine World Article

​Today’s accelerating drive toward reduced carbon emissions, and the operational demand of changing duty cycles on power generating assets, come at the expense of reduced performance and increased maintenance requirements under operating conditions that accelerate wear and tear and consume component life at a faster rate. 

Given the increasing focus on operating flexibility, from rapid start-stop cycles and almost instant loading to fill the generating gaps associated with intermittent renewable energy systems, the impact on equipment life (systems and components) poses a formidable challenge.

Changes in plant operating environment as dictated by shifting market demand has created a real-time need for information not foreseen when the current fleet of gas turbine plants was designed. Data and knowledge relevant to equipment condition has become of first order value to the owner operators confronted by these challenging operating scenarios.

This all points to the need for enhanced operator decision-making capability to anticipate equipment issues before they happen and allow time for preventive measures to avoid downtime and keep plants in a ready-to-run condition.

Data Fusion offers that capability. Time-series operating data and physics-based models combined with near real-time data and analytics hold the key to improving predictive capability.  

August 20
NEW Cumulative Frequency Distribution Dashboards Available in ORAP RAM

Cumulative Frequency Distribution (CFD) dashboards are now available to all ORAP RAM Participants in the ORAP Analytics Portal.  These new dashboards show visually how participating ORAP customer units compare against each other, and to their peer fleet. The X-axis shows the percentile rank - for example: to determine the Median or 50%, read up from the X-axis at the 50% point then over to the Y-axis. This value represents that 50% of the population have a value less than this value and 50% of the units have a value greater than this.


If you have questions, please email inquiries@spsinc.com for more details!

June 1
NEW ORAP Analytics Dashboard - Component Downtime Listing

As of 4 June 2021, there will be a new Dashboard available in the ORAP Analytics Portal for all customers.  This new dashboard is called "Component Downtime Listing". 

This dashboard provides a summary of Events in ORAP, both by the number of hours and incidents, experienced by your Plant versus your selected Peer Group. You will notice that the report is sorted first by the "Total Hours My Units" column and then by the "Total Hours Peer Group" column. This report can be easily exported to Microsoft Excel using the hamburger menu at the top of the screen and then by clicking on "Export Data."

The goal of this dashboard is to show you how your Events compare to the Events happening in the fleet, while also showing you outages that are happening that you have not experienced.  

Please see the flyer attached. 


March 25
Enhanced Combustion Dynamics Monitoring – Now Available in ORAP® Asset Insight™

SPS has partnered with Turbine Logic, a leader in the monitoring of power generating assets and consulting services, to offer their proprietary Dynamics+ Combustion Dynamics Monitoring System (CDMS) through ORAP Asset Insight.  Employing advanced Machine Learning and Physical Modeling, Dynamics Plus can detect combustion hardware, instrumentation, and tuning issues weeks to months ahead of traditional alarm based monitoring. 

We are excited to offer this new function as part of our automated data collection suite called ORAP Asset Insight.  For more info, email us at inquries@spsinc.com.

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March 22
Big Data Unlocks Potential for "Smart Plants" - Gas Turbine World Article

Just as smartphones revolutionized everyday life, the prospect of "smart power plants" may hold the same promise for the nation's energy infrastructure.

Sal DellaVilla, CEO of SPS was recently published in Gas Turbine World Magazine alongside Edgar Lara-Curzio from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and David E. Alman, from NETL Research & Innovation Center on the topic.   

The article takes a closer look at the innovative approach for assessing near real-time data from power generating assets with meaningful predictive analytics and the project that the three organizations, Strategic Power Systems, Inc., ORNL, and NETL are actively working on.  

The project focuses on PREDICTION, BENCHMARKS, MACHINE LEARNING, and OPERATIONS, as its foundation.  

Realizing the Promise of Big Data for building the Power Plants of Tomorrow - from Gas Turbine World - FINAL HIGH RES.pdf

For more information, please contact Lynne at bellizzi@spsinc.com.  

February 26
New Equipment Group Categorizations in RAM Analytics

In the ORAP Analytics Portal, we have introduced new filtering capability for "Equipment Groups" in the right filter choices. This new option will only apply when you are viewing the Equipment/RAM KPIs, Operations, or Downtime Dashboards. We have streamlined the choices in a "tree hierarchy" to help you better select the equipment you want to see data on.

Please see the attached for full details on the enhancement.

ORAP Analytics Portal - Equipment Group Categorizations (January 2021).pdf



April 22
ORAP RAM Data Entry Enhancement - Outage Mechanism versus Event Type Alert

​When adding or editing an Event in RAM Data Entry, users will now be alerted if they specify an inappropriate Outage Mechanism Code (OMC) for the selected Event Type. 

Please see the attached for full details on the enhancement.

Enhancement in ORAP RAM Data Entry - Outage Mechanism versus Event Type Alert (April 2020).pdf

February 13
Future Shock, Where are we, where are we heading? - Article in Combined Cycle Journal

Sal DellaVilla - Managing Director of GTA and CEO of Strategic Power Systems, provides Guest Commentary to Recent Issue of Combined Cycle Journal in an article titled Future Shock, Where are we, where are we heading? "Control the waves of change or be overtaken by them. We need to heed this message. Climate change is real. Addressing this major global challenge means embracing the best mix of energy technologies. Gas-turbine technology, now and in our future, is a major part of the "Clean Energy Solution."

Read Full Article Here:

Future Shock - Where are we, where are we heading (Article January 2020).pdf

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