• Event Frames for More Effective Decision Making – a Nuclear MSIV Application

    Palo Verde’s Main Steam Isolation Valves (MSIVs) are hydraulically operated and use a high pressure (~5000psi) nitrogen bubble to close in a couple of seconds to isolate the steam generator in the event of a steam line rupture. Stringent pressure ...
    Year: 2017

    Loss Management System: Motivation, Conception and Recent Results

    Production loss accounting and optimization is an important focus for HYDRO Alunorte. This has historically been performed manually for the seven production lines, requiring a large engineering effort and resulted in lower precision and slower analysis than desired. Leveraging the ...
    Year: 2017

    Transforming Air Quality Compliance Reporting at the Goldstrike Mine with Asset Framework

    The Barrick Goldstrike Mine has three active Air Quality Operating Permits. Data is consolidated and reported in monthly compliance logs, which are then reviewed by the State of Nevada’s Bureau of Air Pollution Control. The data is obtained primarily through ...
    Year: 2017

    Photovoltaic System Monitoring and Analysis Using PI System

    The outdoor PV module monitoring has been widely applied in today’s PV systems. As the monitoring resolution continues increasing, the amount of data collected also increases tremendously. A powerful storage and analysis tool is needed in order to deal with ...
    Year: 2017

    Mine Haul Truck Health Monitoring System

    Mine production throughput and mining plans are sensitive to the variability of the maintenance availability. The mission of monitoring conditions is to detect those potential failures early enough for increasing equipment reliability and thus its availability. The problem was that, ...
    Year: 2017