Hello friends
I am looking for a Power Management Consultant for 6 - 18 months + of work regarding the design, spec, purchase and commissioning supervision of a power generation system that has existing 6 small 5 MW turbine generators, currently on individual loads, not paralleled, but within 200 meters of each other (all together) scattered here and there in a production plant (upgraded several times and they just added a new generator and a new feeders for those new loads each time, not a common bus to another generator). Now, we want to spec some switchgear additions to parallel all these (easy) and then manage the power by load sharing and load shedding (easy but time consuming to design). I am not looking for advice on how to do this as I am quite comfortable with that (messy, but doable), but I am looking for a consultant to baby sit the design on my behalf (working next to a major engineering company in charge of this now but who is short on EEs, as we all are), and working with a standard software and hardware supplier such as ABB, Seimens, GE, or ???? who supplies such systems. We need a person who has EXACT experience doing this EXACT work without supervision, who knows power distribution as well as engine / generator control. The turbines need an upgrade of governor controls for load sharing (currently isochronous boards . . no big deal to add load sharing boards) and the rest is designing and programming the 'system' to start / stop units depending on bus capacity and load shed when we loose a machine, or adding back when we gain a machine. Load shedding would be by knocking off feeder breakers all over the plant here and there on a priority basis (some new switch gear needed for that also). We will not have the time to watch over this person after the first 30 days of project introduction, etc. They must 'fly' alone but will have a team of 1-2 EEs to do his/her detailed work under supervision. Email me via this link by clicking my name. I cannot put more details on a public forum for security reasons.
Thanks
George