|
||
| Energy Development Corporation awarded patent for steam purity monitoring system |
|
THE Bureau of Patents of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has awarded a patent to Energy Development Corporation (EDC) for its on-line Steam Purity Monitoring system. The system, developed by EDC’s geoscientists and technical services engineers and installed in all the company’s project sites since 1996, provides quick, reliable and continuous real-time data of geothermal steam supplied during normal plant operations for immediate response to system upsets. “…This proves the worldclass ingenuity and expertise of EDC in geothermal production. The on-line Steam Purity Monitoring system is another innovation that makes our operations more efficient, cost-effective and safe,” EDC president and COO Richard Tantoco said. Before the technology was developed, EDC relied on the manual method involving a five-man shifting crew to conduct the sampling of steam condensate. The data would be available only after 24 hours. Since EDC implemented the on-line Steam Purity Monitoring system, it has displaced between P31 million and P52M in annual operating expenses and realized gross savings of up to P314M from 1996 to 2005. Tantoco said that EDC has pending patent applications for four other technologies. “…We have been developing and applying practical technologies to improve resource management in our geothermal sites. Our experience in managing five geothermal project sites for the past 34 years has enabled us to study various situations and problems related to resource management and invent technologies to address them.” Comments (0)
 Write comment
|
Subscribe to this comment's feed
