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.

Client/Server Deployments

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.

Data Mining Methodology

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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