Elements and Enablers of the Digital Power Plant: An Inclusive Approach to the Power Plant Digital Analytics Platform

摘要

Today’s increasingly digitized power plants benefit from improved access to advanced analytics and fleet-wide data correlations. This paper describes the approach to this challenge taken by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) that led to today’s MHPS-TOMONI Analytics Platform. There are a number of analytics platforms available to power plant owners and operators, some direct-connected and some cloud-based, with varying degrees of integration and flexibility to interface with multiple technology control systems and existing power plant analytics, databases and historians. MHPS chose to develop their platform by building on existing best-in-class software that is already in use in a large percentage of power plants world-wide, incorporating robust cybersecurity and adapting their internal analytics systems and processes on this platform. MHPS provides a broad portfolio of data-driven digital solutions to power plants world-wide using this platform. This paper describes the evaluation process that led to this approach and describes the advantages of this approach for power plant owners and operators. Several case studies will be discussed where advanced data analytics and fleet-wide data correlations delivered by this platform led to substantial economic benefits for the power plant owners.