• Preparation of conceptual studies and feasibility studies for power plants
• Support with planning of the complete facility throughout the tendering and implementation phases
• Assistance with planning, implementation and supervision of individual plant components and areas such as water-steam cycle, turbine, cold end, heat recovery steam generator, power system, I&C system including protection systems e.g. generator protection
• Expert analyses in the power engineering and power plant sector
• Provision of tailored support

Conceptual Study Reference Project:

REINSTEIN was awarded a contract by the operator of a German nuclear power plant for the execution of conceptual studies to improve the availability of the water and fuel reserves on site. This was achieved by increasing the demin water reserves and enhancing the emergency diesel supply. In close cooperation with the client’s project team various concepts were identified giving due consideration to the current issue of Germany’s General Nuclear Regulatory Guidelines. The individual concepts were evaluated in detail, both technically and economically.

You are the owner, insurance provider, or project funder of a power plant? You would like to obtain an independent opinion on the current progress status of a project? We prepare independent risk assessments and status reports to allow you to initiate appropriate mitigations in time should this be required. Our services include:

• Independent project status reports during the implementation of the project
• Recommendations for implementation optimisation
• Risk assessments, e.g. for insurance companies
• Assessments of the condition of a plant
• Optimisation proposals for efficiency enhancement

Auditing Reference Project:

German business development banks provide support to various countries for infrastructural projects.
REINSTEIN, as “banker’s engineer”, was awarded the contract for the preparation of an independent status report on two combined cycle power plants in Pakistan to provide an objective view of the actual project status and to identify potential optimisation measures.

Changes arising during the implementation of large-scale plant construction projects often result in extra costs regardless of whether quantity variations or time delay are considered. The average profit margins of contractors participating in a project are often in the region of low, one-digit percentages. Consequently, even minor additional supplies or services provided to the client could cause the project to end up with loss. Clients, on the other hand, wish to have their interest protected and eant to ensure that only the contractually agreed services are invoiced.
Our range of services include:

• Review of technical and commercial tenders
• Reviewing and consulting services to optimise the format of the contract
• Analysis of existing claim management activities
• Optimisation of claim instruments used
• Provision of claim management support to clients

Claim Management Reference Project:

A company was awarded the erection and installation of plant components and systems of a combined cycle power plant. Delays in delivery and in the provision of the interfaces to be supplied by the client, and various organisational inefficiencies by the general contractor occurred. The amount in dispute was in the adding up to tenth of million Euros.
REINSTEIN provided support in reviewing the comprehensively documented actual status of the project and issued a detailed report covering the responsibilities of the parties. Reinstein also liaised with legal advisors and participated in meetings as required.

International large-scale plant construction projects feature a high complexity and involve a multitude of connected activities. We provide comprehensive support during the pre-contract stage, the implementation of the project and also for the mitigation of any problems arising at any time in the course of a project:

• Anaylsis of the project management procedures currently applied
• Optimisation of the project management tools used
• Provision of expert personnel
• Planning and implementation of team development programs

Project Management Reference Project:

Construction of two combined cycle power plants in Venezuela near the Colombian border. REINSTEIN provided project management support to the general contractor including generation of procedures for the project team and suppliers, development and optimisation of IT project management tools and claim management.

You are planning a project and require advise on suitable approaches to performance acceptance testing – also with a view to avoiding costly discussions already at an early stage? Reinstein can offer the following services in this area:

• Independent assessment of performance tests procedures
• Ensuring adherence to performance test procedures and applicable codes and standards
• Verification performance test results
• Performance tests using own equipment
• Review of calibration certificates

You are a plant operator and would like to identify optimisation potential?
You would like to know how the overall efficiency of an existsing power plant can be improved? We can offer the following services

• Analysis of existing facilities
• Re-establishment of documentation that is no longer available
• Cycle calculations and planning of efficiency enhancement measures
• Assistance through the planning, fabrication, installation and commissioning stages

Efficiency Enhancement Reference Project:

A papermill in south-west Germany operates its own industrial power station. REINSTEIN was awarded the contract to improve the facility. The services included the preparation of a detailed inventory, the identification of optimisation potentials for efficiency enhancement, profitability calculations and assistance in the evaluation of tenders.

Personnel training is of utmost importance. . Moreover, there is an increasing tendency for plant operators to offer to their employees advanced training and education programs.
We provide such courses at your premises or at the power plant (field training: nationally and internationally) while responding to your individual training targets.
The target audience includes station engineers and operating & maintenance personnel as well as your non-engineering employees.
REINSTEIN cooperates on a regular basis with the power plant training institute Kraftwerksschule Essen e.V.

Examples of topics and contents:

• Training courses tailored to the needs of an individual client or a specific power plant
• Introduction to power plant technology
• Training focused on individual power plant systems such as gas turbine, steam turbine, HRSG, generator, electrical and I&C systems
• Introduction to nuclear power engineering
• Design of nuclear power plant components

Power Plant Training Reference Project:

South Africa's state-owned electricity supplier Eskom required operation and maintenance personnel training within the scope of the construction of its new power plants. The training was to be tailored to Eskom’s particular needs.
REINSTEIN prepared all training documentation for a total of twelve coal-fired boilers of 800MW/each and successfully conducted eight local training courses of nine weeks each.

Specialists are difficult to find. For your project we provide you with specialist construction managers for the individual work packages or general site managers.
Our area of expertise includes:

• Civil works and construction works
• Erection and installation
• Piping systems
• Insulation systems
• Water chemistry / water treatment systems
• Gas turbine / steam turbine
• Heat recovery steam generator
• Cooling tower / cold end
• Heating, air conditioning and airing systems
• Material handling systems
• Telecommunication systems
• C&I systems

In today’s world the implementation of large-scale projects requieres a network of suppliers distributed all over the globe. Reinstein carries out inspections for you at the suppliers’ premises in order to determine the actual status and compare it with the target status. Moreover, we are capable of elaborating remedial action plans to get activities back on schedule and prevent the project success from being jeopardized.
Our specialists assist you in coping with peaks of demand

• Contract status monitoring (target/actual comparison)
• Participation in inspections at suppliers’ premises and on the construction site
• Review of quality certificates, applicable standards, and available documentation for compliance with contractual requirements
• Elaboration of remedial action plans to get activities back on schedule

Expediting Reference Project:

Delays in deliveries for an existing German nuclear power plant resulted in a prolonged downtime leading to considerable subsequent costs.
REINSTEIN received a contract for the provision of active and comprehensive support in minimising delays and preventing a further extension of downtime periods.

• Development of framework specifications for the project documentation
• Preparation of technical descriptions, specifications and other documents for a contractually required documentation
• Review of supplier documentation

Documentation Reference Project:

Limited resources in the project team of a client required the preparation of the documentation to be outsourced.
REINSTEIN is providing the experts in various disciplines in order to give specific support. The project documentation is prepared in close cooperation with the client, and the support continues until the plant operator’s acceptance certificate has been issued.

• Preparation of project-specific commissioning concepts
• Commissioning of specific plant components or systems

Commissioning Reference Project:

A highly qualified steam turbine commissioning engineer is urgently required to respond to a manpower bottleneck on a construction site in Cyprus.
REINSTEIN has the necessary commissioning expertise and successfully provided support to the Greek plant operator and covered the required period of approximately four months.

The current specialist literature offers only limited advice and recommendations on strategies and approaches for decommissioning projects, which are often politically initiated and of a medium or long-term nature.
Suitable experts with a proven track record in this field are rare and difficult to find.
This is where REINSTEIN comes in: Through our network of specialists we are able to provide our clients with the expertise and long-term practical experience they need for their phasing-out project, including withdrawal from entire technologies and markets (refer to our references).

Our range of services includes:

• Strategic consultancy and assistance through challenging decommissioning projects
• Implementation of strategies, ensuring profitability and sustainability
• Project organisation based on clear communication with all decision-making parties
• Implementation of all activities on-site at your locations – mutually and in close cooperation with your experts and executives
• Efficient project and cost controlling from the viewpointof an independent, external expert
• Ensuring the sustainability of all implemented measures from a neutral, independent perspective

Reference Projects:

As part of Germany’s program to cease hard coal mining operations by 2018, our experts have been providing top managers with strategy and implementation consultancy and support for many years. Our experts have a record of successfully completing a multitude of different decommissioning projects. All projects have been tailored to the client’s specific needs and conditions.

Based on our experience, one of the key success factors of change management projects is the buy-in and cooperation from all parties involved. Furthermore, structured, reliable and commercially viable exit strategies are also required. Organisational structures and procedures have to be continually adjusted to ensure that the planned targets can be achieved. REINSTEIN’s experts with long-term experience in decommissioning projects provide the necessary support and optimise the continual reorganisation of your business processes.

Our range of services includes:

• Planning, organisation and implementation of complex restructuring projects: from inititation to professional activities controlling
• Analysis, evaluation, reorganisation and optimisation of your business processes associated with administration, engineering, logistics, maintenance, and even facility management
• If required, complete or partial automation of processes
• Preparation of make-or-buy decisions
• Establishment of a supply chain management system optimally tuned to decommissioning requirements
• Assessment of internal and external manpower requirements throughout the life of the project
• Safeguarding your employees’ know-how, introduction and organisation of knowledge management structures and systems, development and implementation of training programs
• Projects for continuous cost-cutting, e.g. based on a lean management approach, using the customary tools of your technical areas

REINSTEIN’s team of experts for decommissioning of power plants can provide you with a wide range of engineering and specialist construction management services and capabilities:

• Development of an optimised decommissioning strategy considering all influencing conditions such as financing, subsequent use of the site, regional development planning and available manpower resources
• Development of detailed concepts and procedures for all relevant aspects in the following areas:
  • transition to the post-operational phase
  • temporary storage/removal and disposal of nuclear fuel
  • application for and preparation of licensing documentation for post-operational and decommissioning phases
  • removal of non-contaminated components and their subsequent utilisation or disposal
  • removal, treatment and clearance measurement of radioactive or contaminated plant components and residues including the disposal of decommissioning waste and final release of the site for subsequent use
• Complementing your existing team with the external nuclear expertise required for your successful project
• Secondment of expert personnel: supply of project managers and project team members e.g. engineers and specialist construction managers