Digitaliation’s transformative effect on organisations

Steam turbines are freqently used at refineries and petrochemical plants as the processes often produce excess heat, used to produce drive steam. In these cases, turbine speed often becomes an effective method of throughput control because the speed can easily be governed by steam flow.

It is necessary to regulate the rotational speed of the steam turbine while ensuring that other turbine operating parameters, such as inlet steam pressure, do not exceed safe limits.

In addition, it is necessary to provide startup and shutdown sequencing, overspeed protection and critical speed(s) avoidance. Compressor Controls Corporation (CCC) has developed various application software solutions called control applications or controllers to drive, protect and sequence the entire train.