Game Changing AI Technology
Over the last 9 years, AI Energy Partners has developed an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Platform called Navigator.
This state-of-the-art platform is designed to improve energy production efficiency and reduce toxic emissions by optimizing real time operating decisions by plant engineers.
Navigator has been deployed in a major European utility over the last 2 years. The utility has realized efficiency increases in excess of 1%, resulting in significant savings in coal and CO2 emissions.
“It can be determined with high accuracy that the use of the AI Energy Partners’ technology will result in an average efficiency improvement from 1.23% to 3.05%.”
Multiple System Applications
Navigator was originally designed to address efficiency and emission reduction problems in hard coal power plants.
However, it can be applied to any type of coal fired plant or boiler and DCS system.
It can also be deployed in any type of energy production with a combustion process.
Multiple System Applications
Navigator was originally designed to address efficiency and emission reduction problems in hard coal power plants.
However, it can be applied to any type of coal fired plant or boiler and DCS system.
It can also be deployed in any type of energy production with a combustion process.
Navigator's Innovative Problem Solving:
Navigator - Immediate ROI, Less coal, less CO2 and other emissions
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Software that supports immediate ROI with no additional hardware installation.
Substantially Reduce Losses
Navigator enables the real time reduction of heat rate loss. Such losses are displayed as the colored lines at the bottom of the screen. The blue line indicates the sum of all deviations. The operator’s objective is to keep this line as low as possible to minimize heat rate deviation, thus reducing the cost of power generation.
The operator can easily identify the sub process generating the highest losses and take corrective actions. Importantly, the operator can immediately confirm the result of that action which will be displayed by a downward movement of each line.
Substantially Reduce Losses
Navigator enables the real time reduction of heat rate loss. Such losses are displayed as the colored lines at the bottom of the screen. The blue line indicates the sum of all deviations. The operator’s objective is to keep this line as low as possible to minimize heat rate deviation, thus reducing the cost of power generation.
The operator can easily identify the sub process generating the highest losses and take corrective actions. Importantly, the operator can immediately confirm the result of that action which will be displayed by a downward movement of each line.
Real Time Impact
The operator receives recommendations from Navigator in the form of simple commands. Those recommendations contain precise information about which parameters should be changed to improve efficiency. The operator can immediately identify and change the settings to optimize the combustion process. The results of operator’s corrective actions are displayed on the graph in real time.
Heat Rate Awareness Improvement
This is a comparison of losses over two cycles of power unit operation: one cycle during which the technology has been implemented (red area) and the other without (blue area). After system implementation, heat rate deviation distribution was corrected, resulting in higher unit efficiency.
The heat rate reduction potential has been proven to be 1% to 3%. This reduction is significant as power plants burn thousands of tons of coal PER HOUR. Saving even one half of one percent results in a significant reduction of coal consumption and CO2/other toxic emissions.
Heat Rate Awareness Improvement
This is a comparison of losses over two cycles of power unit operation: one cycle during which the technology has been implemented (red area) and the other without (blue area). After system implementation, heat rate deviation distribution was corrected, resulting in higher unit efficiency.
The heat rate reduction potential has been proven to be 1% to 3%. This reduction is significant as power plants burn thousands of tons of coal PER HOUR. Saving even one half of one percent results in a significant reduction of coal consumption and CO2/other toxic emissions.
Malfunction Alerts
Data reliability and process safety is crucial to efficient plant operation. Navigator alerts the operator in real time about sensor malfunctions.
The reaction time by the operator is very important, because invalid sensor data can lead to the mistuning of automation systems and generate losses. With these alerts, the operator can be made aware of potentially system compromising malfunctions such as leakages.
This AI based tool ensures that the operator bases corrective actions on validated data.
