Westinghouse Electric announced the purchase of two nuclear power plant support systems that it said would help assure that boiling water reactor units with BWR plant-specific computer systems can continue with current equipment to maintain operability.
The company said the products, TREK and DASie, can help “maintain plant operability as an alternative to full-scope replacement.”
Westinghouse purchased the TREK system from C3-ilex LLC, a privately held corporation that began in 1982 under the name ILEX Systems Inc.. That company was acquired by L3 Communications, Inc. in 1997. C3-ilex LLC was later formed through a leveraged buy out of the former ILEX Sysems SCADA and Consulting Services Divisions. SCADA is an acronym that stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, a PC-based solution utilized by utility companies.
TREK, said Westinghouse, is a flexible system that monitors complex processes, such as power generation. It allows plant operators to support BWR event management, process calculations, and alarm visualizations.
Westinghouse also purchased DASie, a data acquisition system capable of collecting, synchronizing, time stamping, collating and buffering high-speed event data, which supports continued communication between BWR plant systems and legacy original equipment including manufacturer instrumentation and control systems.
“Operating nuclear power plants are built to last and this purchase demonstrates our commitment to support them,” said David Howell, Westinghouse senior vice president, Operating Plants Business. “Whether through our Long-Term Asset Management Program or system replacement, Westinghouse continues to invest in components and systems critical to the operational excellence of these safe and valuable energy-generating assets,” he said.