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Announcement
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Visit ECG at
the Baltimore Electric Power show May 6th -8th booth number (#1049) in the
exhibit hall.
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[2nd Quarter 08']
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ECG will be
presenting at the upcoming Electric Power conference in Baltimore May 6th-8th.
The presentation co-authored by Mike Santucci of ECG and Tony Garaventa of
Reliant Energy on May 6th will describe the fuel tracking system installed at
the Conemaugh Plant. A second presentation in this same track by a Shift
Supervisor from DTE Monroe station will describe their use of the product on a
daily basis to operate the 3200 MW Monroe station. The latest version of
AccuTrack also includes Early Warning calculations, based on Industry developed
techniques, for predicting performance within the furnace or ESP for blends of
fuels being loaded as described in the 2003 Power magazine article on
AccuTrack @ DTE Monroe Station.
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[2nd Quarter 08']
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ECG’s Unit
Capacity Framework, custom built to track unit constraints in the Detroit
Edison fleet received DTE’s most coveted capital project award for realized
avoided penalties dispatching units into the MISO market. The application also
provides NERC reporting and system status reports.
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[2nd Quarter 08']
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Dayton Power
and Light awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking
opportunities within their fossil fleet.
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[2nd Quarter 08']
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Excelon
awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking opportunities
within their fossil fleet.
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[2nd Quarter 08']
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E-Notification
version 4.0.8.349 now in full release. Click here
to get it!
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[2nd Quarter 08']
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ECG has been
awarded a second contract from Reliant Energy to provide a turnkey AccuTrack
solution at their Keystone Generating Station to parallel the tracking system
installed last year at the Conemaugh Plant. The contract includes the
procurement and installation of a sampling system feeding a coal analyzer,
bunker level detection, bunker modeling and Accutrack software.
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[1st Quarter 08']
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ECG has
developed state of the art techniques for modeling granular flow in bunkers and
silos employing RFID verification to improve the prediction of the fuel blends
in real time. The model represents a significant improvement over the former
modeling techniques. Visit the Accutrack download area to see a presentation
and videos.
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[1st Quarter 08']
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Completion
of an e-commerce website for
Joyce Graphics, Inc. , an Akron-based printing company.
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[1st Quarter 08']
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ECG
contributed a chapter to Dave Tillman and Bruce Miller’s recent book entitled:
Combustion Engineering Issues Solid Fuels The chapter discusses challenges and
developments in computer applications in the power industry.
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[1st Quarter 08']
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MWGen
purchased ECG’s Roll Bowl COP system for their Chicago fleet of coal plants.
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[1st Quarter 08']
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E-Notification
4.0 now in full release. Click here to get
it!
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[Nov 07]
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See some of
ECG's products and services in practical application. Click here to view DTE's keynote address from the 2007 PI
User's Conference in Monterey, Ca.
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[August 07]
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Accutrack(DFTS)
featured in July/August issue of COAL POWER Magazine on Page 19. Click
here to read it!
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[August 07]
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E-Notification
4.0 now in BETA release. Click here to get
it!
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[August 07]
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Visit ECG at
the upcoming CoalGen Conference in Milwaukee.
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[August 07]
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Visit ECG at
the OSI PI users conference in Monterey to receive a copy of our latest version
of E-Notification.
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[August 07]
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Detroit
Edison estimates a projected savings of just over $3.2M in man hours saved over
the course of 2007 that can be directly correlated to the use of ECG's
COMPASS system.
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[July 07]
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E-Notification
Version 4.0 nearing Beta release.
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[July 07]
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Dayton Power
and Light awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking
opportunities at their Stuart and Killen power stations.
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[July 07]
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NRG Energy
awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking opportunities at
their Big Cajun II power station.
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[July 07]
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ECG
recognized as an OSISoft™ integrated software vendor.
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[June 07]
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ECG
recognized with Smart Signal, OSISoft™ and Matrikon with 2007 Gold Value Chain
Awards award from
M2M Magazine for software integration projects at Detroit Edison.
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[June 07]
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ECG presents
Accutrack – Challenges Tracking Coal at the Electric Power show in Chicago. The
presentation was coauthored by James Mooney and Michael Dunlap of DTE and
discussed capturing fuel opportunities while addressing risks of high value
fuels.
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[June 07]
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Mirant
Energy awards ECG contract to study coal blending capability at their Chalk
Point plant.
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[April 07]
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ECG develops
on-line boiler cleanliness, efficiency and flue gas resistivity models with
Dave Tillman, Dao Daung at the Monroe Power Plant utilizing the output of their
XRF Coal Analyzer. The calculations are utilized by operations to assist with
soot blowing and SO3 flue gas conditioning.
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March 07
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Engineering
Consultants Group is continuing to develop the next version of E-Notification.
For the latest information regarding the release of E-Notification 4.0, please
download the E-Notification 4.0 Development Brochure.
Click here to download.
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March 2007
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Engineering
Consultants Group has developed and is in the process of testing the new Bowl
Plotting Tool.
Click here to view the video.
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July 2006
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Consultants Group has become a Microsoft Partner Program Certified Partner. On
Jan 6, 2005 Enotification 3.2.4 Core Components, successfully completed the
Microsoft Platform Test required for partnership.
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January 2006
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ECG has
begun work on a new version of E-Notification! To be released in the second
quarter of 2007, this version represents a significant step forward in the
evolution of the E-Notification product. It is being developed using the latest
technologies of the Microsoft.NET 2.0 platform and will include extensions of
existing features as well a several brand new features and applications. Some
of these include:
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An upgraded website with a new look and feel that is fast, flexible, and
user-friendly.
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Custom integration with Pagers, Blackberry devices, and Instant Messenging
applications
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An E-Larm RSS feed unique to every user
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A flexible and user friendly installer that addresses fresh installations and
upgrades
We greatly appreciate the comments and suggestions of our clients and potential
clients. Please
tell us how we can best meet your process notification needs in the new
version of E-Notification!
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December 2005
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| Dynegy
Midwest awards ECG contract for RollBowlCOP™ Technology to enhance their
Pulverizer Condition Based Maintenance program at their coal generating plants.
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November 2005
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together with the Process Technology department of DTE Energy, ECG is entering
the final stages of development on the MISO Unit Commitment Framework. The
system includes a web-based software system to track and report a System—Wide
Generation Morning Report, scheduled and forced derates and outages, unit
committed load, unit fuel consumption schedules. The system also features
automated data interfaces for minimizing entry into existing databases such as
P3M.
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October 2005
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| ECG is
developing a Tagging Software solution for the Monroe Power Plant. The software
will allow operators to configure a set of tags and a sign off sheet for any
piece of equipment that requires a multisystem tag-out. DTE plans to roll the
system out their other plants after it has been tested at Monroe.
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October 2005
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Edison renews ECG’s contract to provide Process Technology Management Support
at their Monroe power plant. ECG Supervisors will coordinate Plant Website,
CEMS system, DBDOC, OSIsoft™ PI System™, Fuel Tracking and Notification
Software.
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September 2005
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| ECG was
contracted by DTE Energy to complete a web application to track timesheets,
equipment, and material for one of its largest contractors. This system enables
DTE to efficiently invoice this contractor.
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July 2005
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| ECG was
contracted by EPRI to address a problem with vertical shaft failures at a
Detriot Edison plant with CE/Alstom pulverizers. This DTE plant had failed 3
vertical shafts per year in the four years prior to our investigation. An RBC
survey revealed the root cause of the failures. Once adjusted, the mills ran
smoother and have been running without incident for 18 months. Several mills
were instrumented for continuous analysis. ECG will present the results of the
testing at the upcoming EPRI Pulverizer Users Group in Las Vegas in June.
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May 2005
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coordination of the EPRI Plant Maintenance Optimization team, FirstEnergy Corp
(FEC) and ECG have arranged to adapt the RBC technology to the MPS-type mills.
With an FEC generating plant as host site, the mature RBC technology will be
extended to provide dynamic and physical traits of the grinding elements that
are otherwise hidden. The on-line system will provide advisory data to
operations and condition monitoring information for the technical staff.
Historical trends will be able to project maintenance requirements and to
provide information to address problems and enhanced reliability.
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April 2005
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| Reliant
Energy selects ECG's RBC core system to assist in minimizing coal mill
downtime. Further information on Reliant Energy can be found at
www.reliant.com.
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March 2005
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| ECG has
upgraded the AccuTrack system for a First Energy facility to track the reciept,
consumption, and inventory of Sodium BiSulphite (SBS) from an offsite storage
facility to the plant. The upgrade, written using Microsoft's .NET technlogy
uses laser scanning and barcoding to track the SBS throughout the shipping and
consumption process. Further information on First Energy can be found at
www.firstenergycorp.com.
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February 2005
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Detroit Edison contracts ECG to create an ASP.NET application for the
Generation Optimization team at their General Office. The application provides
a central interface for plant outage requests and load profiling as well as
reporting on the current generation status of the entire fleet of DTE
facilites. Further information on Detroit Edison can be found at
www.dteenergy.com.
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February 2005
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| After a year of development the
AccuTrack reporting interface has been migrated to Microsoft's .NET technology.
The upgrade adds more robust functionality provided by the .NET Framework and
is faster and more user friendly. The site went live at DTE and First Energy
locations in early 2005.
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February 2005
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