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The centerpiece of the SOAPP product family is the SOAPP WorkStation, which is supported by SOAPP Technology Modules.  All of the SOAPP products are MS Windows-based and are distributed on CD-ROM. The SOAPP products can be installed on a LAN or individual PCs.</p> <h3>Why SOAPP?</h3> <p>The increasing competitiveness of the electric utility industry will reward investment decisions that reduce the cost of electricity in the long term, but penalizes companies making investments in the short term. Consequently, companies in the electric utility industry cannot afford to expend many resources studying the latest developments, evaluating alternatives, and optimizing solutions. As a result, there is a tendency to repeat familiar designs. Strategic planning concentrates on different demand, financial, and corporate strategy scenarios. The impact of different scenarios on the most cost-efficient plant design, and consequently on plant cost and performance, has been too difficult to assess and therefore has not been considered. Also, competitive pressures have driven the electric utility industry towards more standardized designs, which have the same trade-offs as most commoditized "packaged systems": good cost/performance for "average" applications, but sub-optimal for any specific application.</p> <p>The SOAPP products address each of these issues. The SOAPP Technology Modules summarize and compare viable, commercially available technologies. Manufacturers have provided the latest information and specialists in each area of technology have carefully transformed all information to a consistent basis. These specialists also developed logic to automatically select design criteria appropriate to each technology to eliminate introduction of inadvertent biases by the user. The SOAPP Technology Modules can be used for general technology transfer as well as to quickly evaluate alternatives in the context of project-specific criteria. The SOAPP WorkStation allows the user to quickly develop a detailed plant conceptual design and then evaluate the impact of different equipment choices and design criteria upon plant design, performance, emissions, and costs. This allows business and technical decisions to be made in concert, rather than relatively independently, as they have been made in the past. This will encourage the development of more "cost-efficient" project-specific power plant designs.</td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"> <h3>Who are the Target Users for SOAPP?</h3> <p>The current SOAPP products are intended for broad use throughout the power industry at a wide range of organizational levels. Newcomers to the power industry; "old hands" getting involved in a new area; students; and non-engineer professionals, such as scientists, business analysts, and policy makers, can use the SOAPP Technology Modules as primers on power plant processes and technologies. Engineers, planners, strategic analysts, and managers can use the SOAPP WorkStation to create, evaluate, and optimize plant conceptual designs for specific projects or to make business decisions. These users will also use the SOAPP Technology Modules to make comparative evaluations of alternate technologies to guide choices being made in the SOAPP WorkStation. Organizations that are expected to use the SOAPP products include generators (e.g., electric utilities, cogenerators), developers, consultants, regulators, and universities.</p> <h3>What are the Benefits of SOAPP?</h3> <p>Use of the SOAPP products throughout the electric power industry will lead to better informed decisions regarding construction of new power plants and the upgrading of existing plants, which should reduce the cost of electricity while also reducing environmental impact. The productivity savings to the domestic power industry in the support of planning studies alone could reach in excess of $10,000,000/year. Although the SOAPP WorkStation reduces a task that otherwise would take several man-months of effort to a few minutes, its value to users lies not in this simple productivity savings, but in allowing users to evaluate many more alternatives than they could afford to evaluate without the SOAPP products, thus achieving an optimal design. Substantial benefits can be realized when the use of the SOAPP WorkStation results in the choice of technologies that produce a different, more economical plant designin which case savings could range from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 per year over the life of a plant.</td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="28%" valign="top"></td> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> <td width="58%" valign="top" colspan="3"></td> <td width="10%" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" height="25" valign="top"></td> <td width="88%" height="10" valign="top" colspan="5"></td> <td width="10%" height="25" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="2%" valign="top"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>