The OpFlex* Combustion Versatility solution suite empowers you to react swiftly to dynamic conditions for improved reliability by maintaining availability during changes in fuel composition, weather and grid frequency.
OpFlex AutoTune, a product within the Combustion Versatility solution suite, is designed to automate combustion tuning. Proper combustor tuning is essential to maintaining regulatory compliance, extending gas turbine hardware life to reliably generate power and revenue. With the increasing focus on performance and emissions, auto-tuning is a key enabler for gas turbine operators.
GE's OpFlex AutoTune technology combines Model-Based Controls (MBC), an advanced control software platform leveraged from GE's aircraft engine business, with field-validated combustion models. MBC uses real-time turbine simulators to enable continuous tuning of your combustion system with parameters checked 25 times per second. OpFlex AutoTune enables uninterrupted operation over a wide range of fuel variation, and during transient conditions to provide operators with improved reliability and confidence.
GE was the first to develop a self-contained, automated DLN tuning system. Today, GE has more than one million hours of automated tuning experience and more than 130 OpFlex AutoTune systems in operation globally.
Working together, we can analyze your specific operation and tailor a solution to achieve your desired outcomes.
OpFlex AutoTune is available with GE's Dry Low NOx combustion solution, as part of the Power FlexEfficiency* platform. Dry Low NOx (DLN) combustion solutions can broaden your operating envelope while dramatically reducing gas turbine emissions, enabling more continuous operation, longer maintenance intervals (up to 32,000 hours), extended asset life, lower turndown and longer-term reliability. DLN systems can deliver the flexibility to burn multiple fuels, which reduces your operating costs with the option to utilize fuel based on price, not just composition. All of these benefits can better position you within your market as a more reliable, flexible and emissions-compliant power generator.
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