Real-Time Gas Quality Measurement for Gas Engines
When Stadtwerke Kiel commissioned a new coastal power plant in 2020, they needed real-time methane number data to protect and optimise 20 Jenbacher gas engines producing 190 MW of electrical output.
A gasQS™ flonic installed at the gas transfer station delivers a new measurement every 30 seconds - enabling continuous ignition timing adjustment and demonstrating that gas composition fluctuations in European grids are far from theoretical.
In this article, published in International Power Engineer (May 2023), Mems AG product manager Florian Krischker describes how real-time methane number determination not only protects engines from knock damage but delivers measurable efficiency gains - with the investment in measurement technology recovered in under a week.