Various stations across
Queensland, Australia
Coal-fired power station
portfolio, publicly-owned
Objectives
✓ Reduce the risk of equipment failure
✓ Increase system performance
Key Outcomes
✓ Reduced operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions through real-time optimisation of soot blowing activity
✓ Avoided loss of availability through early warning of equipment faults
✓ Real-time decision support used by operators, engineers and managers
SentientAlert’s early warning capability is shown in the above diagram. An alert on an air inlet fan was detected and notified after a change in behaviour.
Unfortunately in this case, the lack of action led to the alerted problem causing an equipment failure a month later, resulting in significant loss of generation.
When acted upon, these alerts can significantly reduce costly failures and loss of production.
✓ Real-time early warnings using SentientAlert
✓ Detailed engineering performance reports across portfolio delivered monthly
✓ Deviation costing of equipment performance compared to a historic baseline
