Read here how performance engineers used Visplore to reduce the start-up and ramp-up analysis effort by a factor of 10 and made turbine start-ups 30 minutes faster with 20% less fuel consumption.
Visplore Professional features ready-to-use solutions for the intuitive analysis and optimization of start-up or ramp-up operations.
Identifying two normal and one anomalous start-up procedure.
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Long term overview of anomaly score in context of other parameters.
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Substantially increased volatility in the power grid requires utility companies to cycle their thermal power plants output more frequently and more rapidly. Optimizing these start-up, ramp-up and down operations therefore plays an increasingly important role in the utility’s performance optimization, to save fuel while remaining within the plant’s technological capabilities.
However, optimizing start-up procedures is a complex task. In the past the effectiveness depended heavily on experience and intuition of the individual operators. Analyzing and evaluating start-up processes are very time-consuming. Steps such as extracting data and comparing periods of load changes is very tedious, when using tools as for example Excel. Further, as start-up optimization requires in-depth knowledge of critical parameters, only available through performance engineers, the analysis process could neither be fully automated nor outsourced to data scientists.
Visplore reduces these challenges to a minimum and enables performance engineers to intuitively analyze start-up and ramp-up operations with minimal effort.
