Power Generation

Power generation facilities may use boilers, steam generators, duct burners, auxiliary heaters, fuel gas heaters, combustors, flares, and thermal oxidizers. These fired systems can support steam production, HRSG support, heat recovery, backup readiness, fuel conditioning, plant utilities, and emissions-control applications.

In a power plant, burner management usually sits on support equipment rather than the generator itself: auxiliary and startup boilers, steam generators, HRSG duct burners, fuel gas and conditioning heaters, thermal oxidizers, combustors, and flares. Each needs proven purge, ignition, flame supervision, and safe shutdown, and many need to report into the plant DCS.

Boilers are among the largest fired assets on most power plant sites, and they supply startup steam, plant utilities, or process steam the plant cannot run without. A BMS proves purge and flame, enforces low-water and steam pressure interlocks, and shuts fuel off on any unsafe condition. Boilers rated at 12.5 million Btu/hr (3.7 MW) or more generally fall under NFPA 85, outlined in Profire’s guide to BMS standards.

A duct burner fires into the gas turbine’s exhaust and uses the oxygen left in it as combustion air, so it can only run safely while the turbine is running and exhaust flow is proven. Its burner management ties light-off and continued firing to turbine status and exhaust conditions, trips the duct burner when the turbine trips, and supervises flame across burner elements spread over the duct. HRSG duct burner systems also fall within NFPA 85’s scope.

CHP systems produce power while recovering useful heat for process, facility, institutional, or district energy needs. Combustion control helps manage burner performance, fuel delivery, temperature control, shutdown response, and visibility on supporting boilers, heat recovery equipment, and other fired systems. Profire supports the fired-equipment scope around CHP applications, not the turbine, generator, or electrical dispatch system.

Yes. Profire can support fired equipment tied to backup, peaking, and distributed power applications where the application fit is appropriate. This may include fuel conditioning heaters, auxiliary heating systems, boilers, oxidizers, combustors, flares, fuel trains, and burner controls tied to power availability, startup readiness, or emissions-control support.

Profire supports power generation fired equipment such as auxiliary and startup boilers, steam generators, HRSG duct burners, fuel gas and conditioning heaters, CHP heat recovery equipment, thermal oxidizers, combustors, and flares. The deciding factors are usually firing rate, whether the unit runs continuously or sits in standby, and how it ties into the plant DCS.

Power plants should consider burner configuration, fuel source and any backup fuel, existing field devices, plant DCS communications, shutdown requirements, outage timing, documentation, operator training, and spare parts. For standby equipment such as startup boilers and emergency heaters, also plan how the system will be tested between uses, since it may only run a few times a year.