Siemens, Pegasus team up to serve power industry

To capitalize on the rapid advancement and the need of power producers for comprehensive, knowledge-based IT solutions, Siemens Westinghouse and Pegasus Technologies recently teamed up to offer those types of products and services to the power generation industry.

Pegasus Technologies, owned by KFx (www.kfx.com), offers neural network applications for boiler combustion optimization to reduce emissions and increase efficiency for electric utility customers. Pegasus possesses the exclusive, worldwide licensing rights to Computer Associates International Inc.'s neural network and neugent technology for the power generation process.

KFx (Mentor, Ohio), which first hinted at this agreement with Siemens Westinghouse in a statement released in July, provides total fuel solutions for the power industry. Its patented K fuel process converts low-heating-value coal into clean fuel. It also provides professional services for energy production and preserving the environment.

As a leading power generation equipment and information and control supplier, Siemens Westinghouse (Orlando, Florida) wants to use this alliance to provide integrated IT solutions from the process level (unit and plant) to the enterprise level (corporate) to maximize revenue per MW generation, said Steve Brennan, a company representative.

"Siemens Westinghouse has already enhanced power plant performance and increased revenue in plants worldwide and in the United States through successful introduction of process solutions," Brennan said. "Siemens Westinghouse has identified the necessity to establish key partners to completely fulfill its strategy."

Siemens Westinghouse's product portfolio and integration capability combine with the Pegasus application using neural network technology to provide customers with powerful tools to compete in the competitive power market, Brennan said. Environmental aspects of power generation are also seen as critical to Siemens Westinghouse, which is also an OEM supplier of catalysts for SCR (selective catalytic reduction) systems.

Edited by April C. Murelio
Managing Editor, Power Online