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Announcement
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ECG releases E-Notification version 4.0.12.497 featuring many enhancements
including fully re-designed E-XL and E-PB applications.
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[3rd Quarter '08]
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Visit ECG at the Baltimore Electric Power show May 6th -8th booth number
(#1049) in the exhibit hall.
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[2nd Quarter '08]
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ECG will be presenting at the upcoming Electric Power conference in Baltimore
May 6th-8th. The presentation co-authored by Mike Santucci of ECG and Tony
Garaventa of Reliant Energy on May 6th will describe the fuel tracking system
installed at the Conemaugh Plant. A second presentation in this same track by a
Shift Supervisor from DTE Monroe station will describe their use of the product
on a daily basis to operate the 3200 MW Monroe station. The latest version of
AccuTrack also includes Early Warning calculations, based on Industry developed
techniques, for predicting performance within the furnace or ESP for blends of
fuels being loaded as described in the 2003 Power magazine article on
AccuTrack @ DTE Monroe Station.
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[2nd Quarter '08]
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ECG’s
Unit Capacity Framework, custom built to track unit constraints in the Detroit
Edison fleet received DTE’s most coveted capital project award for realized
avoided penalties dispatching units into the MISO market. The application also
provides NERC reporting and system status reports.
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[2nd Quarter '08]
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Dayton
Power and Light awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking
opportunities within their fossil fleet.
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[2nd Quarter '08]
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Excelon awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking
opportunities within their fossil fleet.
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[2nd Quarter '08]
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E-Notification version 4.0 now in full
release.
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[2nd Quarter '08]
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ECG has been awarded a second contract from Reliant Energy to provide a turnkey
AccuTrack solution at their Keystone Generating Station to parallel the
tracking system installed last year at the Conemaugh Plant. The contract
includes the procurement and installation of a sampling system feeding a coal
analyzer, bunker level detection, bunker modeling and Accutrack software.
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[1st Quarter '08]
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ECG has developed state of the art techniques for modeling granular flow in
bunkers and silos employing RFID verification to improve the prediction of the
fuel blends in real time. The model represents a significant improvement over
the former modeling techniques. Visit the Accutrack
download area to see a presentation and videos.
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[1st Quarter '08]
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Completion of an e-commerce website for
MarketHATCH , an Akron-based printing company.
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[1st Quarter '08]
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ECG contributed a chapter to Dave Tillman and Bruce Miller’s recent book
entitled: Combustion Engineering Issues Solid Fuels The chapter discusses
challenges and developments in computer applications in the power industry.
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[1st Quarter '08]
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MWGen purchased ECG’s Roll Bowl COP system for their Chicago fleet of coal
plants.
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[1st Quarter '08]
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See some of ECG's products and services in practical application in DTE's keynote address from the 2007 PI User's
Conference in Monterey, Ca.
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[August '07]
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Accutrack(DFTS) featured in July/August issue of
COAL POWER Magazine on Page 19.
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[August '07]
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Visit ECG at the upcoming CoalGen Conference in Milwaukee.
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[August '07]
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Visit ECG at the OSI PI users conference in Monterey to receive a copy of our
latest version of E-Notification.
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[August '07]
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Detroit Edison estimates a projected savings of just over $3.2M in man hours
saved over the course of 2007 that can be directly correlated to the use of
ECG's COMPASS system.
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[July '07]
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E-Notification Version 4.0 nearing Beta release.
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[July '07]
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Dayton Power and Light awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel
tracking opportunities at their Stuart and Killen power stations.
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[July '07]
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NRG Energy awards ECG contract to study coal blending and fuel tracking
opportunities at their Big Cajun II power station.
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[July '07]
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ECG recognized as an OSISoft™ integrated software vendor.
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[June '07]
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ECG recognized with Smart Signal, OSISoft™ and Matrikon with 2007 Gold Value
Chain Awards award from
M2M Magazine for software integration projects at Detroit Edison.
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[June '07]
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ECG presents Accutrack – Challenges Tracking Coal at the Electric Power show in
Chicago. The presentation was coauthored by James Mooney and Michael Dunlap of
DTE and discussed capturing fuel opportunities while addressing risks of high
value fuels.
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[June '07]
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Mirant Energy awards ECG contract to study coal blending capability at their
Chalk Point plant.
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[April '07]
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ECG develops on-line boiler cleanliness, efficiency and flue gas resistivity
models with Dave Tillman, Dao Daung at the Monroe Power Plant utilizing the
output of their XRF Coal Analyzer. The calculations are utilized by operations
to assist with soot blowing and SO3 flue gas conditioning.
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[March '07]
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Engineering Consultants Group is continuing to develop the next version of
E-Notification. For the latest information regarding the release of
E-Notification 4.0, please download the E-Notification
4.0 Development Brochure.
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[March '07]
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Engineering Consultants Group has developed and is in the process of testing
the
new Bowl Plotting Tool.
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[July '06]
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Engineering Consultants Group has become a Microsoft Partner Program Certified
Partner. On Jan 6, 2005 Enotification 3.2.4 Core Components, successfully
completed the Microsoft Platform Test required for partnership.
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[January '06]
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ECG has begun work on a new version of E-Notification! To be released in the
second quarter of 2007, this version represents a significant step forward in
the evolution of the E-Notification product. It is being developed using the
latest technologies of the Microsoft.NET 2.0 platform and will include
extensions of existing features as well a several brand new features and
applications. Some of these include:
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An upgraded website with a new look and feel that is fast, flexible, and
user-friendly.
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Custom integration with Pagers, Blackberry devices, and Instant Messenging
applications
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An E-Larm RSS feed unique to every user
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A flexible and user friendly installer that addresses fresh installations and
upgrades
We greatly appreciate the comments and suggestions of our clients and potential
clients. Please
tell us how we can best meet your process notification needs in the new
version of E-Notification!
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[December '05]
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Dynegy Midwest awards ECG contract for RollBowlCOP™ Technology to enhance their
Pulverizer Condition Based Maintenance program at their coal generating plants.
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[November '05]
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Working together with the Process Technology department of DTE Energy, ECG is
entering the final stages of development on the MISO Unit Commitment Framework.
The system includes a web-based software system to track and report a
System—Wide Generation Morning Report, scheduled and forced derates and
outages, unit committed load, unit fuel consumption schedules. The system also
features automated data interfaces for minimizing entry into existing databases
such as P3M.
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[October '05]
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ECG is developing a Tagging Software solution for the Monroe Power Plant. The
software will allow operators to configure a set of tags and a sign off sheet
for any piece of equipment that requires a multisystem tag-out. DTE plans to
roll the system out their other plants after it has been tested at Monroe.
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[October '05]
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Detroit Edison renews ECG’s contract to provide Process Technology Management
Support at their Monroe power plant. ECG Supervisors will coordinate Plant
Website, CEMS system, DBDOC, OSIsoft™ PI System™, Fuel Tracking and
Notification Software.
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[September '05]
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ECG was contracted by DTE Energy to complete a web application to track
timesheets, equipment, and material for one of its largest contractors. This
system enables DTE to efficiently invoice this contractor.
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[July '05]
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ECG was contracted by EPRI to address a problem with vertical shaft failures at
a Detriot Edison plant with CE/Alstom pulverizers. This DTE plant had failed 3
vertical shafts per year in the four years prior to our investigation. An RBC
survey revealed the root cause of the failures. Once adjusted, the mills ran
smoother and have been running without incident for 18 months. Several mills
were instrumented for continuous analysis. ECG will present the results of the
testing at the upcoming EPRI Pulverizer Users Group in Las Vegas in June.
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[May '05]
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Through the coordination of the EPRI Plant Maintenance Optimization team,
FirstEnergy Corp (FEC) and ECG have arranged to adapt the RBC technology to the
MPS-type mills. With an FEC generating plant as host site, the mature RBC
technology will be extended to provide dynamic and physical traits of the
grinding elements that are otherwise hidden. The on-line system will provide
advisory data to operations and condition monitoring information for the
technical staff. Historical trends will be able to project maintenance
requirements and to provide information to address problems and enhanced
reliability.
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[April '05]
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Reliant
Energy selects ECG's RBC core system to assist in minimizing coal mill
downtime.
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[March '05]
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ECG has upgraded the AccuTrack system for a
First Energy facility to track the reciept, consumption, and inventory
of Sodium BiSulphite (SBS) from an offsite storage facility to the plant. The
upgrade, written using Microsoft's .NET technlogy uses laser scanning and
barcoding to track the SBS throughout the shipping and consumption process.
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[February '05]
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Detroit
Edison contracts ECG to create an ASP.NET application for the
Generation Optimization team at their General Office. The application provides
a central interface for plant outage requests and load profiling as well as
reporting on the current generation status of the entire fleet of DTE
facilites.
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[February '05]
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year of development the AccuTrack reporting interface has been migrated to
Microsoft's .NET technology. The upgrade adds more robust functionality
provided by the .NET Framework and is faster and more user friendly. The site
went live at DTE and First Energy locations in early 2005.
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[February '05]
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