Power generation

Power generation

EnergiSpeak solution to power generation units involves integrating advanced digital technologies and data-driven solutions to enhance technical and operational efficiency while maximizing plant capacity utilization. EnergiSpeak solutions help make operations more flexible by increasing capacity utilization and fuel efficiency, decreasing emissions and operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, and cutting emissions.

EnergiSpeak achieve these objectives by:

1. Advanced Monitoring and Control Systems:
   • Implement integration of advanced Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems to monitor and control various plant parameters in real-time.
   • Utilize Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices for continuous monitoring of equipment health, enabling predictive maintenance and minimizing downtime.
2. Data Analytics and Machine Learning:
   • Employ data analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze large sets of operational data. This can help in predicting equipment failures, optimizing maintenance schedules, and improving overall plant performance.
   • Develop predictive models for equipment efficiency, energy consumption, and process optimization.
3. Digital Twins:
   • Create digital twins of the power plant, which are virtual replicas of physical assets. This enables real-time simulation and analysis for optimizing operations and troubleshooting issues before they occur in the actual plant.
4. Asset Performance Management (APM):
   • Implement APM solutions to assess and optimize the performance of critical assets. This involves monitoring the health of equipment, predicting failures, and extending the lifespan of assets through proactive maintenance.
5. Energy Management Systems (EMS):
   • Deploy advanced EMS to optimize energy generation, distribution, and consumption. This includes real-time monitoring of energy flows, load forecasting, and demand response capabilities.
6. Integration of Renewable Energy Sources:
   • Incorporate renewable energy sources into the power generation mix and leverage digital technologies to integrate and manage the variability of these sources effectively.
7. Cybersecurity Measures:
   • Implement robust cybersecurity measures to protect digital infrastructure from cyber threats. As power plants become more interconnected, ensuring the security of digital systems is crucial.
8. Remote Monitoring and Control:
   • Enable remote monitoring and control capabilities, allowing operators to manage and optimize plant operations from a centralized location. This can improve response times and reduce the need for on-site interventions.
9. Training and Skill Development:
   • Invest in training programs to equip plant personnel with the skills needed to operate and maintain digitalized systems effectively. This is crucial for maximizing the benefits of digitalization.
10. Collaboration and Industry Standards:
    • Foster collaboration with industry partners and adhere to relevant industry standards. This ensures interoperability between different systems and promotes the adoption of best practices in digital power generation.

By embracing digitalization and incorporating these strategies, power generation plants can enhance technical and operational efficiency, reduce operational costs, and maximize the utilization of their capacity.

Fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) system

One of the major modules of EnergiSpeak monitoring system is the fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) system. It has numerous data gathering tools and cutting-edge algorithms that allow it to locate, isolate, and pinpoint errors in real time. In order to determine whether a problem has truly happened in a plant, FDD systems are primarily used. After isolating it from the other subsystems, the system finds the precise component where the error first occurred. The size and time-variant behavior of faults are also identified by such systems.

The Plant performance System

The Plant performance System of EnergiSpeak have a major module as The steam and turbine evaluator, which helps to ensure continuous and real-time availability of data on the amount of stress accumulated by components. A turbine steam evaluator aids in calculating the system's current level of stress and forecasting future stress. Acoustic emission monitoring, ultrasonic corrosion monitoring, and vibration monitoring systems are further monitoring technologies that can be added into this analysis module.

EnergiSpeak’s Plant performance and merit order analysis systems collect data across several system-related parameters and provide predictive and prescriptive guidance regarding plant maintenance. These functions are specifically useful for power plants that regularly bring flexibility in their operations, given that they help in predicting the necessity for component repairs by estimating the stress accrued from ramping up and down. Moreover, they take into consideration other factors such as steam flow rate, coal consumption and overall plant efficiency by modelling heaters, turbines, boilers and condensers to estimate short-term and long-term operational efficiency. This allows operators to take decisions accordingly and conduct repairs in advance, thus keeping O&M costs to a minimum. Plant optimisation and efficiency enhancement

ABT/DSM, Energy Accounting & Energy MIS

The ABT/DSM mechanism has dramatically streamlined the operation of regional grids in India. The EnergiSpeak’s DSM System will help its users:

• In preparing day a head schedules
• Schedule/Demand Forecasts (based on Available Data) for well planning of the resources
• Maximizing the UI revenue
• Maintain and Operate plants at desired schedule without going into penalties
• Reports on the opportunity loss and opportunity availability by providing desired generation details
• Forecasting the surplus power availability
• Plant performance module linked based DSM Data analysis for Scheduling
• Advisory decisions for over injecting or under injecting opportunity and limits
• Detailing Break Even Frequency and system marginal cost for intelligent plant operation.
• Have excellent features in Energy Accounting, MIS and postfacto analysis reports.

Predictive Analytics

EnergiSpeak’s solutions in predictive analytics consists of wide network of embedded devices, real-time communication systems and centralised data acquisition systems which can improve communication channels between complex plant components such as boilers, turbines, condensers and emission controlling equipment. A large volume of data can be harnessed to a model, estimate, analyse and predict the behaviour of the plant and its subsystems over time. Additionally, EnergiSpeak provide solution to this stream of data which can be modeled and analysed using the cloud, artificial intelligence/machine language, neural nets, advanced process control, digital twins, etc. to accrue benefits that reduce O&M costs.

Digital twins

As learned through the technology progresses, in recent years, several plants have been incorporating digital twins in their plant systems to optimise operations and to estimate and diagnose potential issues in advance. For example, a combined cycle gas turbine digital twin can prevent catastrophic failures through early fault detection and dynamic root cause analysis. Additionally, digital twins replicate the behaviour of real-time physical systems while communicating with the actual system in real time and making recommendations to improve plant operations. Energispeak will help in providing the data layer to support these systems.

Why EnergiSpeak Solution?

• EnergiSpeak digital technologies help plant operators smoothly optimise different TPP assets while coordinating and aggregating different subsystems seamlessly.
• Effective optimisation of plant operations enables TPPs to increase output, lower variable costs, reduce emissions and improve flexibilisation capacity.
• There are several areas, such as process efficiency, auxiliary operations efficiency, emissions efficiency, and flexibilisation, where our digitalisation can improve efficiency by optimising operations.
• EnergiSpeak's digitalization optimizes boiler heat rates, minimizing variations while ensuring efficient operations. By adjusting and optimizing heat rates based on data from steam and turbine evaluators, the system aims to keep the heat rate as low as possible, contributing to enhanced overall operational efficiency in thermal power plants.
• Additionally, utilising digitally connected systems will lead to enhanced operational coordination between coal transportation and boiler operations. Consequently, coal movement can be optimised using digital equipment, such that TPPs switch over to just-in-time coal procurement practices and operate seamlessly even during periods of declining inventory.
• EnergiSpeak provides an end-to-end solution, collaborating with stakeholders in the ecosystem to address challenges such as cybersecurity threats, interoperability issues, and reliable supply chains for digital equipment.

Our experience in Digitalisation of TPP operations will help to simplify many of the analysis and help in decision making, lower the risks, such as cyber security threats, lack of interoperable digital equipment and inadequacy of reliable supply chains for digital equipment, etc. We provide end to end solution collaborating with all stakeholders in the ecosystem and devise a comprehensive Energy Management System to ensure the expected results.