Purpose-built for steam turbines, Woodward’s powerful controllers have the performance and accuracy required for today’s steam turbine applications. Steam turbine OEMs utilize Woodward’s turbine controllers to ensure their packages meet steady-state stability and fast transient responses required by oil, gas, and petrochemical plant process.
Steam Turbine
Woodward offers steam turbine controllers for all size turbines and applications. Standard off-the-shelf field configurable controllers allow users with simple steam turbine applications to easily configure and operate the control themselves—resulting in lowering commissioning and support costs. Depending on the application’s complexity and level of criticality, Woodward also offers custom programmable control platforms in simplex, dual redundant, or triple redundant configurations enabling customers to match the required control reliability and availability levels to their application. Fully programmable control platforms allow turbine OEMs and end-users to create a custom controller with site specific algorithms, logic, and protection functionality as required by the application.
Woodward also offers different sizes of steam turbine valve actuators and turbine overspeed detection systems (ODS) for selection and application by both OEMs and end-users. These versatile product families allow entire plants/companies to use and standardize on one actuator family or ODS family across their plants, lowering associated spare parts and personnel training costs.
Woodward also offers different sizes of steam turbine valve actuators and turbine overspeed detection systems (ODS) for selection and application by both OEMs and end-users. These versatile product families allow entire plants/companies to use and standardize on one actuator family or ODS family across their plants, lowering associated spare parts and personnel training costs.
Power Generation
Purpose-built for steam turbines, Woodward’s powerful controllers have the performance and accuracy required for today’s steam turbine applications. Steam turbine OEMs utilize Woodward’s turbine controllers to ensure their packages meet steady-state stability and fast transient responses required by utility grid regulatory commissions.
Process Plants
Steam turbine applications for when exhaust steam is being used in a process that requires close steam pressure control.
A Changing Workforce
Operators around the world face a major challenge with the looming impact of a changing workforce. Power, oil & gas, petrochemical and process plants are looking for cost effective solutions to do more with less resources and to manage the transition of knowledge and skills from a historically mechanical “hands-on” workforce to the next generation of talented engineers, technicians and operators who prefer using digital technology to operate and troubleshoot systems.