Comprehensive hydropower automation
Valmet DNA Automation for hydropower plants
The Valmet DNA Automation System provides a cutting-edge digital platform for comprehensive turbine control, protection, and vibration diagnostics, along with complete unit and hydropower plant management. This user-friendly control solution optimizes plant performance, ensuring safe, reliable, and sustainable energy production. By leveraging advanced automation technology, it enhances operational efficiency, reduces downtime, and maximizes the reliability of your hydropower plant.
Extensive view into all hydropower plant processes
Optimized plant performance based on real-time data
Improved energy and operational efficiency and reduced maintenance costs
Fewer shutdowns for increased power plant reliability
Advanced control for turbines and hydropower plants
With extensive experience in hydropower control strategies—such as water balance control, frequency support applications, and power plant fleet management—Valmet is well-positioned to provide the ideal solution for modern hydropower plants. The Valmet DNA Automation System seamlessly integrates these strategies, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.
Valmet’s comprehensive hydropower plant automation concept includes:
- Turbine controller
- Automatic voltage regulator
- Vibration monitoring
- Electrical protection
- Field equipment
- Distributed control and information management
- Ability to integrate everything into a single system
Deep expertise in hydropower plant operations
Valmet DNA automation solutions leverage advanced tools to harness the full potential of both current and historical hydropower plant data. These insights empower plant personnel to optimize operations and maintenance, driving cost efficiency. Key benefits include enhanced production planning, predictable maintenance shutdowns, and improved asset condition management.
Engineered with Valmet DNA's standard design tools, applications ensure rapid start-up times for greenfield projects and minimal downtime for retrofit installations.
Valmet’s expert team provides comprehensive support for all hydropower automation projects, from retrofitting existing plants to the delivery of new turbine systems.
We have developed a long-term partnership with Valmet across our other hydropower plants. As Valmet has successfully retrofitted hydro turbine automation with Valmet DNA at our Siikakoski hydropower plant, we aimed to implement a similar solution for the Verla plant, too. A unified automation system across all sites, including engineering tools and data collection, ensures that only one system requires future upgrades.”
Our existing central control system was obsolete. We wanted to replace it with a new one that features more than just the basic functions, such as network monitoring and controlling power plants, dams and pumping stations. We looked for a system that provides us with a better overview of the production process, enhances our operations on the electricity markets and enables us to develop both our process and its condition monitoring.”
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