Application Questions
- Can you measure the effect of variable operating technique?
- Can you estimate the cost of variable risk tolerance?
- Do your personnel know where the benefits are hidden?
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- Are your process inputs or outputs priced in an active marketplace?
- Do your utility contracts contain penalty or bonus clauses?
- Does your utility provide incentives for renewable energy production or peak shaving?
- Does process variability prevent you from maximizing the utility of your assets?
- Are you able to store energy through thermal, chemical, or pneumatic means?
- Are you able to shut down non-critical operations for short periods?
- Can you generate energy internally?
- Do you practice financial hedging as a means to control risk?
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- Do you operate multiple boilers, chillers, air compressors etc.
- Do you use different fuels?
- Does your steam system contain more than one pressure level?
- Do your operators manually allocate process demands to process equipment?
- Do you frequently exceed prudent process limitations?
- Do you co-generate?
- Does your process experience transitions and discontinuities when changing rates?
- Do you dispatch multiple facilities to meet aggregate demand?
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- Do you depend on operators to take advantage of transient opportunities?
- Does your process supply more than one consumer?
- Do your operators apply their personal risk tolerance in deciding how to operate?
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- Is your process difficult to control due to dead time or long time constants?
- Does much of your operation depend on operators to manage the various inputs?
- Does the skill level of your operators vary?
- Does risk tolerance vary for different process operators?
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- Must your process coordinate with other operating units?
- Is there an overall operating strategy in place?
- Are there global optimization opportunities though coordination of multiple units?
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- Do your boilers burn multiple fuels simultaneously?
- Are your boilers fully managed by production rate controllers?
- Do you suffer from high maintenance and replacement costs due to poor combustion conditions?
- Do your boiler support systems (feedwater, fans, fuel handling, drum level control) adversely affect your boiler operation?
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