Plant Performance Monitoring
In todays operating environment process plants are under more pressure than ever
to deliver improved operating performance with fewer staff. Increasingly real
time
monitoring systems are being used to monitor plant conditions on a regular basis
and provide an early warning of potential problems before they impact operations
by identifying poor or abnormal performance.
KPS can provide you with a complete solution for monitoring plant performance
with the unique combination of technologies offered by the Knowledge
Builder real time rules engine and its Process Data Analyser data mining module
Real Time Rules Engine
Knowledge Builder enables the development of monitoring applications based
on rules derived from a combination of statistical modelling, previous operating
experience or user defined process models. Rules can be displayed in a variety
of formats and fuzzy logic can be used where there is a level of uncertainty
in diagnosing plant conditions. There is the also ability to create objects
for the monitoring of standard items of equipment such as valves, pumps and
heat exchangers. A range of deployment options support stand alone, SCADA,
DCS and information system based monitoring applications.
Data Mining Technology
Our patented data mining approach provides a way to profile plant performance
across a range of operating conditions by the systematic analysis of historical
plant operating data and automatically discovering patterns or relationships
between variables. The first step in applying the technology is to define the
key performance indicators or KPI’s of interest such as yield of more
valuable products, energy use or emissions.
Historical operating data is then analysed to develop a series of operating
profiles relating the expected value of KPI’s to different plant conditions
such as throughput, product specifications or mode of operation. The operating
profiles are then used for to monitor plant performance on an ongoing basis
to identify poor or abnormal operating conditions.
Advantages
Benefits of monitoring solutions include increased plant yield, reduced energy
use and reduced emissions as well as a reduction in losses from earlier detection
of operating problems. KPS has experience of implementing data mining and rules
based monitoring solutions across a range of industries including oil and gas
production, power generation, water treatment and paper manufacture.
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