Sustainability

Services for wind, solar and energy storage to maximize renewable assets.

Renewable Resources Optimization

Forecasting power generation from renewable assets including wind, solar and storage can get complicated. We can help renewable operators optimize their asset dispatch by building deep learning and deep reinforcement learning algorithms that outperform traditional methods.

Renewable Resources Optimization

Forecasting power generation from renewable assets including wind, solar and storage can get complicated. We can help renewable operators optimize their asset dispatch by building deep learning and deep reinforcement learning algorithms that outperform traditional methods.

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Remote monitoring services for thermal and renewable facilities

Particularly useful for generation asset owners who don’t want to hire control engineers, have limited access to them, or cannot justify the cost, based on the asset size.One of our engineers can monitor multiple assets from multiple owners, achieving significant benefits of scale.

Services fall into three broad categories:

  • Monitoring for anomaly detection.
  • Monitoring for maintenance optimization.
  • Monitoring for performance improvement and cost reduction.

BKO will work with any client-side hardware or software, bringing you the benefits that come from monitoring by skilled engineers, analysis using Machine Learning, and reporting from data stored in Modern Real-Time databases, and Cloud technologies.

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Case Study

SVANTE Technologies

Customer Overview

Svante Technology uses an environmentally friendly solid sorbent technology to capture, remove and store carbon emissions. After capture, the CO2 is concentrated to pipeline grade purity and safely transported to underground storage or for use in making other products. They are an award-winning company named on the  2023 Global Cleantech 100 list and have been operating world-wide for 15 years.Svante offers companies in heavily emitting, hard-to-decarbonize industries a commercially viable way to reduce their emissions and improve their sustainability profile. They offer custom scalable solutions unique to each client.

Customer Challenge

Svante approached us with data reliability problems. They were finding dashboard errors and misleading data caused by frequent and persistent connectivity issues. The loss of data was wreaking havoc with dependable access and real-time accuracy of its dashboard, making the user’s work more difficult.A solution was sought to reduce or eliminate the effects of connection losses and enable real-time accuracy across all client dashboards and improve user trust in the data.

Solution

Using Seeq Data Lab capabilities, BKO devised an innovative solution to the connectivity issues. By establishing a real-time backup of calculated data at one-minute intervals, data integrity was preserved in the cloud. Then BKO used Seeq Workbench to restore back-up data to the dashboard ensuring uninterrupted presentation. BKO also used this opportunity to enhance the visual appeal of Svante’s dashboards, creating an HD, user-friendly interface.

Results

  • Accuracy of data is now assured up to one-minute intervals.
  • Loss of connectivity impacts are almost completely eliminated.
  • Enhanced visual appeal of dashboards.

Engineers at Svante Technologies now engage with a reliable and visually pleasing dashboard, boosting their productivity and job satisfaction.

BKO’s innovative approach using Seeq capabilities exemplifies excellence in data management and visualization, delivering a seamless and error-free dashboard experience, even in the face of data disruptions.

Case Study

Optimal Maintenance Scheduling

Challenge

Industrial instruments arranged with sensors and computers inside an interconnected network allows for improvements in productivity and efficiency of operations. In recent years, this revolution has been most commonly referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). By collecting vast amounts of data on processes, they can be analyzed and used to train machine learning algorithms to classify conditions, detect anomalies, and forecast the future. The ability to digest, reason, and make inferences about very high-dimensional data allow for longer-term more optimal strategies. After deployment, these machine learning models respond quickly, allowing decisions to be made over finer time intervals– this opens up a new world of tactics that lead to more optimal business results.Some domains of industry that this has impacted most in recent years are agriculture, energy, and manufacturing, where even fractionally small improvements have significant economic value.Automatic sensor readings may indicate the health of a machine asset. This realization has led to an increased desire to perform maintenance based on condition rather than solely based on time since the last scheduled event. Condition-based maintenance leads to significant financial savings. One way to achieve this is by building a data-driven model that can predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of machines based on sensor readings.

Solution

To optimize the maintenance schedule, we built a system of machine learning models. The system may be queried from on-premise computers or from a remote server, depending on the clients particular performance and privacy considerations. Our solution:

  • Identifies abnormal behavior for domain experts to follow up on.
  • Classifies the specific type of fault that occurred.
  • Predicts the remaining useful life (RUL), given context about the fault.

Forecast results are then shared with energy dispatchers to monetize predicted capabilities.