Advanced Generator Protection (AGP)

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Overview

Aspin Kemp & Associates’ (AKA) Advanced Generator Protection (AGP) system was developed to significantly increase power plant reliability and efficiency for the offshore oil and gas industry. The first predictive monitoring system of its kind, AGP improves on typical generator protection systems. The AGP is a major element of one of the subsystems making up AKA’s high reliability power plant suitable for DP3 closed bus operation.

The AGP system relies upon existing performance characteristics inherent in all power plants that depend upon multiple generators feeding a common bus. The individual performance of each generator is monitored against the properties of the common bus to identify deviations from the expected operation. These might be symptoms of serious fault conditions or, alternatively, early warning signals of developing problems. Importantly, the AGP is able to discriminate the root cause of a problem and properly isolate the affected equipment before the fault results in a cascade-type failure of the plant.

The AGP system is becoming the default power plant protection system on dynamically positioned drilling rigs where continuity of power is essential through closed bus for DP3 operation.

Features

• Fault Circumvention: Detect a fault condition or a minor irregularity in generator performance and take pre-emptive action to bring additional generators online.
• Fault Information: Identify fault sources, report detailed and timely information and fix the fault prior to it affecting the rest of the plant.
• Fault Elimination: Eliminate the potential for cascading faults by organizing components to function autonomously.