[Insight Energy News]  Korea South-East Power (CEO Ki-yoon Kang) continues to play a leading role in domestic industrial growth by actively supporting the strengthening of technological capabilities and overseas market development of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises in the power generation sector. 

In particular, it is playing a great role in helping domestic small and medium-sized enterprises in the power generation sector to advance overseas. In 2012, it established G-TOPS (Global Trade of Power System), a special purpose corporation that supports the export of power generation products for small and medium-sized enterprises in the power generation sector for the first time among domestic power generation companies, and is supporting the development of overseas markets for small and medium-sized enterprises that have difficulty in independent exports. Through this, it is securing overseas markets for small and medium-sized enterprises with excellent technology that have difficulty in independent exports, and is widely publicizing the excellence of domestic power generation equipment overseas.  

In order to share the value of the existing 'KOEN Growth Ladder Support Program' and unify the concept of growth support projects, we are discovering and intensively supporting 100 start-up companies (until 2030).

In particular, the goal was set to foster global hidden champions and the name was changed to KOEN Core Corporation-100. 

The support contents include: △Strengthening ESG management capabilities, △Strengthening technological capabilities, △Developing overseas sales channels, △Achieving carbon neutrality of facilities, △Market development costs, △Purchase and production costs of testing equipment, △Establishing safety and health systems, △Costs of obtaining overseas standard certification, △Improving the working environment for workers, etc.

Here, we looked into the performance of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises selected as excellent partners for joint growth by Korea Southern Power Co. / Editor's note

ICE Meca Tech Co., Ltd. (CEO Sang-il Kim) is a specialized industrial plant automation company that is conducting business to improve the efficiency of plant facilities and optimize processes. 

In particular, we are conducting domestic production, development, and R&D projects for plant facilities, and are perfectly performing design, production, installation, and test operation based on over 30 years of experience and know-how. 

In addition, we are carrying out business for the stable operation of plant facilities, such as service maintenance and supply of spare parts for operating plants, and all executives and employees are doing their best to provide the best technology and the best quality to customers based on trust.

ICE Meca Tech is headquartered in Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, and has a corporate research institute within the company. The factory is also located in Yeoju-si, Gyeonggi-do. 

The head office research institute is committed to developing new products, and the products developed in this way have already been recognized for their technology in many ways in domestic power plant applications. Based on the technology recognized domestically, we are committed to developing overseas export markets. Since the end of the COVID period, we have been making efforts to develop full-scale export markets, and are focusing on developing the Southeast Asian market first.

Among Southeast Asian countries, we have already completed organizing our export market sales organization in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, and our future goal for overseas market development is to explore not only other Southeast Asian countries but also the European and American markets. 

Icemecatech focuses its business on the power generation sector, and its main customers are thermal power plants in Korea and Southeast Asian countries. In addition, its main customers include manufacturers that supply boilers, turbines, gas turbines, and environmental equipment to the power generation sector, as well as EPC companies that are in charge of power plant construction and engineering. 

ICE Meca Tech is currently working to develop export markets for Adjustable Orifice Valve, Pulverizer Fire Monitoring System, and Silo Hotspot Monitoring System.

The Silo Internal Fire Monitoring System is a product that has received innovation product certification and has been recognized for its performance in many domestic power plants, so it is a product that is being pioneered as the most preferred product in overseas markets. 

Storage silos for coal, biomass fuel, grain, etc. are vulnerable to fire and explosion, so early detection is necessary. Conventional application technologies for detecting silo fires in advance include infrared temperature monitoring cameras, carbon monoxide measurement systems, and thermocouples for temperature measurement, but they have various limitations in monitoring fires inside (center) of silos. 

ICE Meca Tech's new product, the Silo Internal Fire Monitoring System, is a product that prevents sensor damage due to tensile load with triple braided slip prevention technology and individual temperature sensor insertion technology, measures the temperature at the center of the silo in real time by level and analyzes temperature changes to detect fire early and, in the event of sensor failure, replace only the failed sensor without replacing the entire unit.

ICE Meca Tech's variable orifice valve product is also an innovative product certified. The variable orifice valve allows the existing coal piping system to adjust the orifice variably, thereby resolving the imbalance of the pulverized coal fuel and air flow between burners caused by the fuel pipe arrangement and the characteristics of the pulverizer outlet. 

This product provides the adjustment necessary to initially balance the flow of the pulverized fuel line, as well as the ability to periodically readjust the orifice opening to maintain optimum airflow balance. It consists of two opposing gates operated by rotating a single handwheel. The gates have a vacuum-bonded alumina surface to provide wear resistance.

ICE Meca Tech's pulverizer fire monitoring system is also attracting attention as an innovative product. When pulverizing coal in a pulverizer, foreign substances such as iron and copper contained in the coal and mechanical wear of the pulverizer itself can cause sparks. In particular, starting up, shutting down, or sudden changes in load of the pulverizer, combined with high-temperature transport air, can cause fire and explosion inside the pulverizer. 

To detect a fire in the mill at an early stage, the mill fire monitoring system is based on near-infrared emissivity (NIR) measurement technology, and measures the intensity of light emitted by a spark or flame inside the mill in real time, while providing a real-time image of the flame inside the mill through a special camera.

ICE Meca Tech's differential fire detection system infrared sensor.

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