projects
Kirk Huyser has 49 years experience, 37 years doing business as HESI.
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By Client (major projects only) |
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Eagle Valley Clean Energy |
ControlLogix / Wonderware HMI control systems upgrades for 13 MW wood fired power plant. |
City of Aspen Municipal Water |
Engineered standby power system for Tiehack and Meadowood pump stations. |
Harry L. Oswald Generating Station |
PlantPax (ControlLogix/FactoryTalk) automatic generation control (AGC) programming for 548 MW plant |
City of Omaha Municipal Water |
Commissioned Synergy Engineering secondary resistance controller (SRC) connected to wound rotor of 1000 hp, 2300V pump motor for controlled acceleration. |
Sierra Energy FastOx Gasification |
Commissioning support, PLC programming, and HMI screen development on Rockwell PlantPAx (ControlLogix, FactoryTalk) DCS at Ft. Hunter Liggett Army Base. |
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard |
Commissioned Synergy Engineering secondary resistance controller (SRC) connected to wound rotor of 600 hp, 12kV dewatering pump motor for controlled acceleration. |
American Municipal Power, Ohio |
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix PLC and Citect HMI control systems development for addition of Synergy Engineering 14-step starting motor secondary resistance controllers (SRC) for W301 combustion turbine/generators at three sites. |
PTW Energy Services |
Arc Flash Analysis for Koch Exploration and Production White River Dome facility, DCP Midstream Anderson Gulch Gas Compressor Station, and Laramie Energy Gas Compressor Station. |
American Gypsum, Bernalillo, NM |
PLC-5/HMI programming for stucco conveying; Yaskawa VFD wiring design and PLC interface; ControlLogix PID controllers programming for chilled water system; Yaskawa VFD drives configuration plant-wide. |
Tri-State Generating Station |
Electrical engineering, specifications, and design for vertical turbine pump installation. Also performed engineering services for Colowyo, a Tri-State company, to meter and remotely report, raw water flows to their coal mine. |
Pyramid Corporation |
Arc Flash Hazard analysis for Kobe Water Storage facility; Single line diagrams, fault current analysis, and hazardous area classifications for two natural gas production facilities. |
MPA Consulting Engineers |
Electrical engineering, specifications, and design for natural gas production wastewater processing facilities and sodium bicarbonate materials handling. |
SGM Engineers |
Wastewater electrical review and Fire Station design review; Electrical engineering and design for various commercial and residential projects. |
Shale Tech International |
Electrical design and engineering, Shale Oil Retort upgrades and new R&D project |
Solvay Chemicals |
Electrical design and engineering, plant upgrades |
Dynegy |
Control Systems Integration and ongoing troubleshooting and maintenance, gas fire combined cycle generation |
American Gypsum |
Control Systems Integration, wall board plant upgrades |
Doyle 1 Power Station |
Control Systems Integration and ongoing troubleshooting and maintenance, gas fire peaking station |
American Shale Oil |
Hazardous area classifications and electrical testing |
Pitkin County |
Electrical design and engineering, jail upgrades |
EnCana |
Electrical design and engineering, natural gas production |
MPA Consulting Engineers |
Electrical design and engineering, various petrochemical and mining projects |
Balkan Energy, Republic of Ghana |
DCS Controls Troubleshooting, barge mounted power plant |
ConocoPhillips |
Electrical design and engineering, man-camp |
Climax Molybdenum |
Electrical design and engineering, molybdenum mill |
Henderson Mill |
Electrical design and engineering, molybdenum mill |
Redbud Energy |
DCS Controls Tuning, combined cycle power plant |
Cemex |
Technical forensics and evaluation of emissions monitoring, 11 cement plants |
EGE Itabo, Dominical Republic |
Controls tuning, on-site and remote, coal fired power plant |
Sithe Energies, Independence Station, Oswego, NY |
Allen-Bradley CompactLogix and Modicon PLCs control systems integration for water sampling, substation monitoring, DCS interface, and Wonderware Historian. |
Sithe Energies, Independence Station, Oswego, NY |
Y2K Project Manager |
Sithe Energies, SSamutprakarn Cogeneration Co., Ltd, Thailand |
Consulting Engineer: Instrumentation and controls design review for the 120 MW Bangpoo Energy Facility |
Greeley Energy Facility |
Replaced Bailey OIUs with Wonderware InTouch HMIs and interfaced to Bailey Infi 90 DCS. Installed Wonderware Historian and developed energy report. |
Operational Energy Corp., Burlington, VT |
Controls Engineer: Configuration changes and additions, systems integration, loop checks, HMI modifications, logic and controls verification, tuning, CAD drawing changes, and tag database for Bailey Infi 90 DCS with LAN-90 PCView HMI and Allen-Bradley SLC 5/03 and 5/04 programmable controllers. Installation and development work on Wonderware InTouch HMI and Industrial SQL Real-Time Database Server and Client Tools. |
Trans Alta Energy, New Zealand |
Owners Rep / Startup Manager, 125 MW Southdown combined cycle power plant in New Zealand. |
Sithe Energies, Greeley, CO |
Consulting Engineer: System Stablility Analysis report to Public Service Company of Colorado; update electrical distribution drawings; modifications to Bailey Net 90 DCS controls. |
Sithe Energies, 1000 MW Independence Station, Oswego, NY |
Owner's Representative during construction and commissioning: performed design review of electrical and control systems; enforced specifications compliance; wrote specifications and administered work for data acquisition systems and network interfaces; liaised between owner and contractor for startup activities. |
LG&E Power Systems, Rensselaer, NY |
Startup Manager, combined cycle power plant |
Sithe Energies, Oswego, NY |
Consulting Engineer for design review of P&ID drawings, control systems, and electrical distribution at the 1000 MW Independence Station. |
University of Colorado |
Control systems troubleshooting, gas fired combined cycle power plant |
Zurn/Nepco, Batavia, NY |
Distributed Control Systems commissioning: gas fired combined cycle and simple cycle power plants; wood gasification project |
Hydra-Co Operations Inc., Imperial, CA |
Control systems integration for remote data acquisition and remote troubleshooting, biomass power plant |
Duke/Flour-Daniels, Solvay, NY |
Control systems troubleshooting and tuning, pulverized coal power plant |
Sithe Energies, Stockton, CA and Oswego, NY |
Control systems troubleshooting and configuration, FBC coal fired cogeneration plant Owners Rep, 1000 MW gas fired combined cycle power plant |
General Electric, California |
Control systems commissioning/tuning, 3 wood fired and 2 combined-cycle gas fired power plants |
Babcock & Wilcox, West Enfield and Jonesboro, Maine |
DCS Controls tuning, 27.5 MW wood fired power plants |
Midcontinent Coal and Coke |
Energy use study, coal mine |
Ultrasystems |
Startup/Commissiong, 8 wood fired power plants, 6 in California, 2 in Maine. |