Современные информационные технологии/ 3. Программное обеспечение

Candidates of technical sciences: I.V. Dolotovskij, E.A Larin, N.V. Dolotovskaya, graduate student A.V. Lenkova

Saratov State Technical University, Russia

Information and communication technology in human resource support energy audits and energy efficiency of industrial enterprises

An energy audit (EA) of industrial enterprises is conducted in order to improve the efficiency of fuel and energy resources (FER) by upgrading the equipment, optimizing of operating conditions, introducing  modern technologies for creation of  high-energy technology (technological) systems. This goal is achieved in several stages by using information and communication technologies. One of the most important stages of the EA enterprises is the analysis of actual consumption and the generation of (FER), the state of their long-term planning and regulation. It is crucial especial for enterprises which have complex technological structure of the main and auxiliary facilities, where the energy supply is provided by external and internal production systems with multi-level relationships with technology installations.

Training of energy audit experts plays the pivotal role in solution of problems at this stage. The experts have to be aware of principles of system analysis of complex technological and power equipment at industrial enterprises which have various manufactured products. The information-analytical system is realized and used for training of such specialists. This system consists of the main database with the appropriate control systems: normative and methodical documents; methods of calculating the energy efficiency of equipment and installations; programs and instruments for measurements; standard consumption indicators  and generation of energy; projects improving energy efficiency of devices and equipment; technical information on modern equipment (Fig. 1).

The IAS’s realization is performed at all levels of the company’s hierarchy (equipment, installation, manufacturing, power supply subsystem, the enterprise as a whole). It is necessary for the solution of the following complex of interrelated problems: identification of all FER types and water flows; the organization of the planned, actual and normalized balances by type of used / generated of FER; the evaluation of an energy efficiency and analysis of the deviation of the actual and specific rate from the regulatory consumption / generating FER and water consumption for each installation, and production company.

 

 

Fig. 1. Block diagram of the IAS

 

The fundamental organization of the IAS main fourth unit is based on the block-hierarchical principle and realized in individual interconnected components - program modules (PM), which are discrete elements, admitting the separate compilation, integration with other elements and downloading.

The basis of each MP is the software (SW), it is developed using the «Stepwise Refinement». On the first stage the data and methods of their analysis were identified for the energy sector of the company in the whole, on the second-stage the determination’s procedure was carried out in an ever-increasing level of detail (manufacturing, installation, equipment). Method of «Encapsulation» was used in the development of the software calculating the energy performance at the level of plant and equipments. External interfaces of modules only were left visible for users. This interfaces exactly define all the valid operations on them (data entry, calculation, display the results, the transfer of information) with a hidden software implementation of the module. The calculations with using developing PM are carried out in automatic mode (no user interaction) and mechanized mode (with user’s interaction) after entering the initial data. In the latter case, appropriate options for communicating with program components of the module are provided in the user interface.

The relationship between the PM of the fourth main IAS’s unit is performed by communication channel, which is activated by users (Fig. 2). A conclusion of the PM contains calculation of calculating (automatically updated) information for each type of FER:

 - data on the equipment of the plant’s installs with different structures for each type of FER and the updating by communication channel I;

 - the total individual hours of use/ generation of FER by equipment of installation N enterprise M for each type of resource;

 

 

Fig. 2. The diagram shows interrelation of the IAS PM

 

- consumption / generation of the FER and water consumption in accordance with the operation’s mode of the installation’s equipment during fixed period of time. This information is represented in the form of five interrelated automatically updated information blocks; correction of rates of loading facilities can be done by the  additional information channel II;

- automatically formed indexes of consumption / generation of the FER and water consumption during calculating period of operation (month, quarter, year) are  updated by the communication channel VII; in addition to identification of the specific rates of the consumption / generation of the FER and water consumption, users can make adjustments to expenditures of planned technological flows by communication channel II;

 - formed on the production’s installations in accordance with values of measuring devices, the actual performance of the absolute and specific rates of the consumption / generation of the FER and water consumption during calculating period of operation; after the activation of channel III information about consumption of technological flows are updated.

Final results are presented in the form of automatically constructed diagrams of the dynamics of the planned and actual consumption / generation of the FER and water consumption on the background of the dynamics of production or consumption of the technological flows and the ability to compare actual data with the regulatory values (Fig. 3).

Подпись: Specific electricity consumptionе,
кWattЧhour/ton of sulphur

Fig. 3. Detail of the results of the PM with the dynamics of the specific electricity consumption by equipment of sulfur’s manufacture.

Designed IAS enables training and development of professionals, which perform an energy audit of industrial enterprises.

It is necessary to note that the II, III communication channels can act as exits of other information systems of the company - process control and manufacturing automation systems. It allows to use the IAS for creation of elements of corporate information systems of the surveyed companies and design of own computerized systems for working out of technical decisions for increase of object's power efficiency with need to pay attention on modern trends of the technological processes and equipment, change economic, climatic, environmental, and other influencing factors.

 

Literature

1.                 1. A system of automated accounting and planning at the enterprise: a stalemate. Number 63 537 RF / EA Larin, NV Dolotovskaya, I. Dolotovsky. - № 2007106539/22 (007086), appl. 20.02.07, publ. 27.05.07.

2.                 2. System, "Energy supply": a computer program number 2010615353 / EA Larin, IV Dolotovsky, NV Dolotovskaya. - № 2010613798; appl. 29/06/10; reg.. 20.08.10.

3.                 3. Larin 3 EA Dolotovsky IV, NV Dolotovskaya Energy complex gas processing plants. Systems analysis, modeling, valuation. - Moscow: Energoatomizdat,2008.-440C.

 

The work was supported by the Russian Ministry of Education (CC 14. 740.11.0107)