Doosan Group has begun a drive to expand its power plant service business by integrating power plant engineering with the latest information and communication technology (ICT).
The group announced the opening of the new Software Center at Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co.’s Seoul office in April 2014, following the launch of its Remote Monitoring Service Center (RMSC) earlier that year at the company’s Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, head office. The RMSC and the Software Center will collect and analyze the streams of big data generated by power plant operations as part of a process that is expected to enhance plant availability and optimize operational efficiency.
The RMSC, located at the company’s Changwon Headquarters, is equipped with an early warning system for abnormal operational conditions, and a real-time monitoring system. Via an exclusive telecom network, the center receives data on core facilities operations from the control center of a power plant in real time, and instantly provides an optimized solution in the event of a problem.
By processing the massive amount of accumulated data received through the RMSC, the software center provides information and solutions that can improve the technical design of power plants, enhance operational efficiency, and provide an advanced repair service.
Recently, project hosts in Korea and overseas have demonstrated a preference for long-term service contracts that include a remote monitoring service for power plants. Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is expected to further raise its stature in the global power service market by integrating the capacities of the two ICT-based centers with its existing business encompassing the design, production and repair of facilities, in which it boasts global competitiveness.
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction aims to win projects to provide a long-term maintenance service for three to four power plants in Korea within the year, and plans to make inroads into overseas markets, including Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
Chairman & CEO Park Gee-won of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction stressed that, “The integration of ICT and power plants is a new challenge for the company which will expedite our future growth. Through the ICT-based RMSC and the Software Center, we expect to not only increase our customer value but also to expand our service markets.” Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Co. has decided to stick with environmentally friendly energy technologies to find its future growth engines, in line with the Doosan Group’s firm decision.
Doosan Heavy has been managing sea wind power and coal gasification businesses with green energy technologies in line with the group’s master plan. The company developed the “WinDS3000,” a sea wind power generation system, and installed the system in the Gimnyumpoku area in Jeju City on Jeju Island in 2009, the initial step in its quest for green energy projects. Energy sources said the world sea wind power system industry is projected to grow an average of 30 percent annually in the future with the projected total sea wind power output to rise from 4 GW now to 99GW in 2025.
Doosan Heavy, in a joint endeavor with the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Energy Technology Evaluation Institute, installed a 3 MW-class sea wind power system on the sea coast some 1.5 km from Woljong-ri, Kujwa County, Jeju Island, in July 2012, which is equivalent to 60 percent of the world sea wind power market.
Only a few power companies in the world operate sea wind power systems, including Vestas of Denmark and Siemens of Germany, and of further significance is the fact that Doosan Heavy developed the system on its own, energy sources said.
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A group of staff at Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction’s Software Center working on the analyses of Big Data to provide info on efficient management of power plants and repair services.
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