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Plant Performance Monitoring

KPS has developed an on-line performance monitoring solution specifically targeted at the process industries sector to support engineers and operators in achieving best practice plant operation. The application monitors a wide range of measurements and key performance indicators from plant and equipment at a production site and provides the guidance of required values of variables to meet operating objectives such as maximum yield, maximum efficiency or minimum emissions.

Key Elements of Solution
  • Current unit operating data is read directly from the production information system and the value of each variable compared to a best practice operating template under similar operating conditions e.g. same product grade, throughput etc
  • Selected groups of variables such as control setpoints, KPI’s, product quality etc can be compared vs. the template with easy to use visual displays

  • Plant operating data is automatically screened for invalid or inconsistent measurements to aid rapid diagnosis of plant operating conditions
  • Summary display shows the status of all plant operating variables in one table e.g. measurements falling within and outside an expected range of best practice operation
  • Best practice operating periods are identified from historical plant operation. The required operating objective is defined according to a set of user defined criteria e.g. maximise throughput and minimise out of emissions.
  • The average values and ranges of all relevant unit operating variables such as temperatures, pressures and control setpoints are stored for each operating period to form a library of best practice operating templates for a range of operating conditions.

Benefits

  • Easy to understand visual displays
  • Identify and repeat best operating practices
  • Reduced energy use and emissions
  • Optimise unit operation and control settings
  • Maximise yield and throughput
  • Quickly identify poor or abnormal operations
  • Rapidly troubleshoot unit performance problems
  • Specify optimum plant operating envelope

Technical Advantages

  • Automatically detects unreliable or inconsistent values e.g. values out of range or invalid combinations of values
  • Rapidly troubleshoots hundreds of operating variables – can easily include all the significant measurements on a processing  plant
  • Identifies optimum or best practice ranges for all variables i.e. KPI’s, control variables and plant measurements
  • Results are presented in a transparent and easy to understand format – providing insight and a ‘birds eye view’ of plant conditions
  • Definition of optimum plant operation can be specified in terms of multiple plant operating constraints or objectives e.g. maximum yield and minimum energy use
  • Automatic import of new data and set up of template library – supports rapid monitoring of conditions and updates to best practice templates

 

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