Fully electric actuation · Independent conversion engineering · Integrated with your controls
As an option within a controls upgrade, we engineer the conversion of hydraulically actuated turbine control valves to fully electric actuation, removing hydraulic actuation where you want its benefits gone.
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As an option within a controls upgrade, Innova Technologies engineers the conversion of hydraulically actuated turbine control valves to fully electric actuation, removing hydraulic actuation where the customer wants its benefits. We provide the engineering for the upgrade and integrate the electric actuation with the control system. We do not design or fabricate hydraulic power units, and we do not manufacture the valve.
For some operators, eliminating hydraulic actuation on a turbine control valve, and the associated HPU, fluid, and maintenance, is an attractive option during a controls modernization. Where it fits the machine, we specify the electric actuator and design the mechanical and control interface so the new actuation integrates cleanly with the upgraded control system. Our role is the upgrade engineering and integration; the customer gets a simpler, lower-maintenance electric actuation arrangement.
The Problem
Hydraulic actuation of turbine control valves brings hydraulic power units, fluid-cleanliness requirements, servo valves, and the maintenance and failure modes that come with them. Where an operator would prefer to remove that complexity, converting the affected control valve to electric actuation can simplify the machine and reduce maintenance, provided the conversion is engineered correctly for the specific valve and control bandwidth.
Innova Technologies provides that conversion engineering as an option within a controls upgrade.
Capabilities
Engineer the replacement of hydraulic control-valve actuation with a fully electric actuator, assessing feasibility for the specific valve, selecting a suitable commercially available electric actuator, and designing the mechanical and control interface.
Integrate the electric actuation with the turbine control system, position control and feedback, tuning, alarms, and interlocks, as part of the controls upgrade.
Evaluate the existing valve, actuator, and control requirements to determine whether an electric conversion is appropriate and what interface is required. Innova provides the engineering for the upgrade: we do not design or fabricate hydraulic power units (HPUs) and do not manufacture the control valve; commercially available actuators and valves are specified and supplied as needed.
Why Innova Technologies
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A MESSAGE FROM JOHN KAZOUR, CEO
To our customers and partners,
For more than 50 years, our team has helped customers keep critical operations running. We built our reputation as Petrotech by taking responsibility for control systems on important rotating machinery.
As more industries came to us with similar challenges across power generation, compression, and hydro applications, our engineering team kept finding ways to solve them. Eventually, the business outgrew the Petrotech name.
We are entering our next chapter as Innova Technologies. The new name reflects the full scope of our work as a rotating machinery control systems specialist. We engineer controls around the machine, deliver complete projects from design through commissioning, and provide support that stays with the problem until it is solved.
Our name is changing, but the people, engineering experience, and commitment behind the work continue. Our responsibility to active projects and installed systems carries forward under the Innova Technologies name. Your current contacts remain the right place to start, and we will communicate directly if an administrative record requires an update.
We appreciate the trust you have placed in us over the decades, and we look forward to continuing that work as Innova Technologies.
CEO, Innova Technologies
