InfoPro: Planning of the modes

INFOPRO: Planning of the modes

Software product "INFOPRO: Planning of the modes" (before ASTEP) - multifunction automated information system of planning of the optimal modes of the equipment and calculation of technical and economic indicators of TPP.

Purpose of a product

The software product allows to obtain primary data from information measuring systems (including from paper carriers), to create storage of technology data, to create the mathematical model of the station allowing to execute all complex of calculations for planning of optimal structure and an operation mode of the equipment of TPP, forecast calculations, HOPZ on the operating range and TEI is retrospective at the rate of process of obtaining primary information. At creation of a mathematical model all features of the station connected with its topology, the instrument park and technical condition of the capital and ancillary equipment are considered. The software product is intended for the generation companies (OGK, TGC), thermal power stations (independent or as a part of manufacturing enterprises).

Key advantages

• Unified information system of production management and commercial scheduling
• primary data (storage of technology information)
• calculation of technical and economic indicators
• operational and long-term planning of optimal operation modes
• data preparation for work for OREM
• decision support on OREM

Fast investment payback

• effective maintaining optimal modes and their adjustment
• more exact calculation of curve HOPZ on operating range and formations of the optimal price request
• loss minimization, connected with an underconsumption/excessive consumption of fuel
• effective participation in the balancing market due to determination of the most optimal reserve capacities

Not high total cost of ownership software product

• possibility of independent implementation and support
• guaranty period of support – up to 12 months
• flexible price policy of manufacturing company
• possibility of lease of the software product

Completeness and data consistency

• accuracy of the data due to information storage in one system
• historicity of changes of model of calculation, specifications and technical documentation, conditional constants, etc.

Transparency

• the mathematical model of TPP, including optimization function, is configured with use * tools of the software product and is available to the subsequent analysis and adjustment.

Applied characteristics

• High-speed performance
• high speed of calculations - time of calculation of TEI does not exceed 1 with, time of optimization calculation does not exceed 30 with

• Documentation
• existence of a complete set of documentation on the software product, support of current status of documentation

Integration

• Integration with external systems:
• ERP systems (Oracle, Microsoft, SAP)
• Systems of accounting (1C and other)
• Fiscal metering systems (ASCAPC, ASKUTE, ASKUG)

Modularity

possibility of the choice of structure of the software product, priority of implementation of modules, possibility of substitution of the module a component substitute, with the subsequent integration in the software product

Reliability

data protection from unauthorized access at storage and transfer

Visualization

the software product has big tool kit of data visualization and information (tables, diagrams, charts, etc.), instruments of reporting of any type and structure, data view in the form of symbolic circuits (the station, separate nodes), etc.

Configurability

• possibility of independent setup of algorithms and calculation procedures, configurations of information display, user interface
• the software product allows to implement the distributed or centralized corporate system with a possibility of consolidation, the analysis, recalculation of data from branches at the level of Executive office
• at the same time at the central office of the enterprise there is complete (to primary data) also consistent information on work of all divisions with high efficiency (of day and less)

Compliance to the legislation

algorithms of calculation of TEI and planning of the modes correspond to the existing federal legal acts, corporate regulating documents and the normative model operating at the station.

Convenience of using

the interface of the software product allows the user to perform a maximum of functions at the minimum quantity of actions, taking into account specifics of works on calculation of TEI existence of a multi-user operation mode and standard interfaces for data transmission

Architecture and structure

System architecture

The software product has three-unit architecture with selection of the level DBMS including data storage of a complex and service of interaction with the third-party systems, level business of logic, including service of calculation and service of interaction of clients, and client level with service of interaction of page Microsoft Excel.

Composition

• Module "Administration"
• Module "Initial data"
• Module "Planning of the Modes"
• Module "Calculation of the Technical and Economic Indicators (TEI)"
• Module "Reporting"

Functionality

• Receiving initial data
• possibility of data acquisition from any information measuring systems
• digitization of chart tapes in case of lack of information measuring systems
• manual entry of initial data

• Verification and validation of data
• use of reliability of information measuring systems
• check of entry of a parameter value into tolerance range
• noise filtering: cutting off of the false data arriving on the idle equipment
• flexible system of selection of the absent (false) data according to the statistics surrounding values
• signaling on irrelevant values
• balancing of primary indicators

• Planning of the modes
• optimization of the mode and structure of the working equipment of the station by criterion of minimization of fuel costs for the set electric and heat loads
• calculation of Pmin and Pmax and corresponding optimal mode
• calculation of characteristics of relative gains of costs on operating range
• calculation of the optimal mode of the next hour which is rather passing on loadings or for requirements of BR considering an opportunity and optimality of transition process
• use net - indicators that considers change of own needs when calculating the optimal mode
• possibility of mid-term and long-term forecasting of operation modes of the station
• calculation of specific and full sizes of fuel consumption at optimal and any other mode
• accounting of the maximum number of restrictions when implementing optimization function:
  • o technological limits
  • the restrictions on indicators of operation of the equipment caused by its design features
  • o the technical restrictions connected with technical condition of the equipment

• All-station * o
  • the restrictions on a circulating water, on electricity connected with neodootpusky implementation of model of planning of loading of stations in volume of power supply system taking into account plans for fuel is warm protivodavlenchesky turbines

Calculation of the technical and economic indicators (TEI)

• data of balances: on fuel, on the electric power, on steam and heat
• an opportunity to independently adjust calculation model without involvement of the developer
• any discretization of calculation (it is retrospective also at the rate of process of obtaining primary data)
• possibility of carrying out calculations "on watches"
• control of reliability of measure values, inheritance of reliability on participation in formulas and from the younger period of calculation to the senior
• determination of a status and mode of the equipment on set of the measured values

Management of audit and security

• the security system allowing to provide accomplishment of any regulations on operation of a system
• maintaining magazine of audit of changes in a system
• possibility of control over the carried-out calculations from the managing device

Reporting and analysis

• possibility of carrying out contrastive analysis the plan/fact at the rate of a production process
• opportunity carrying out the analysis on key technical performances, both on the station, and on the enterprise in general
• formation of the regulated reporting
• formation of the independent reporting

Data storage

• formation of archives for any interval
• creation of the corporate data warehouse
• consolidation of data
• database maintenance on the counted modes

Specifications

• Technology platform - Microsoft. net Framework 3.5.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 DBMS.
• Target client OS – Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7.
• Target server OS – Microsoft Windows Server 2003 above.
• Support Internet browsers – Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox.

Implementation options

• Standard Windows is the application
• The web application (with an opportunity for work on freely distributed OS)

Use formats

• data processing center
• the distributed server capacities
• one workplace

Minimum technical requirements

• Server: Xeon of 1.8 GHz
  • 3 GB of OZU
  • 250 GB Hard drive

• Client: Pentium of 4 1.8 GHz
  • 1 GB of OZU
  • 10 GB Hard drive
  • the Monitor with the supported resolution not less than 1024*768

Design methodology

When developing the software product Scrum Agile-methodology was applied, at design the methodology of object design of UML was used.

Implementation methodology

• Analysis
• At the Analysis stage during the project the analysis of business processes and requirements of the Customer is carried out. The main result (product) of this stage is the Engineering Design (ED).

• Design
• At a stage of Design the Conceptual Design of the solution is developed and submitted for approval to the Customer, the software product is shown, the offer on implementation, including the budget on continuation of works and the project schedule prepares. These documents will be approved and affirm the client before the following stage Development and Testing.

• Deployment
• At the Deployment stage the software product is installed on the platform of the Customer. System testing and primary demonstration to users is held.

• Implementation
• At this stage a system completely is implemented at the enterprise of the Customer, and all user trainings are provided in full.

Technical support and maintenance

• If necessary the Customer can independently perform technical support and support of the software product.
• In the company the Uniform Technical support service which business processes are constructed on the basis of the ITIL standards works.
• The format of technical support is defined by the Customer – an hourly pay of the actual time, the choice of the specific list of services and/or services within certain time, etc.