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Placing Analytics in the
Hands of Engineers
The field of data analytics is evolving quickly, and an increasing number of tools are being
designed with chemical engineers in mind
IN BRIEF
DESIGNING TOOLS FOR
END USERS
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
WITH BIG DATA
B
ig data, smart
devices, Internet
of Things
(IoT) - these
are terms heard more
and more frequently in
the chemical process
industries (CPI). But as
connectivity proliferates,
questions arise
about how CPI facilities
can best make use of
the wealth of data they
are collecting (Figure 1).
" Data analytics are here
to
stay - those who
don't use it will lose out to competitors who
do, " says Petri Vasara, vice president of management
consulting at Pöyry plc (Helsinki, Finland;
www.poyry.com). These benefits reach
beyond process improvements into more esoteric
areas, such as safety and sustainability.
Vasara lists minimizing raw materials consumption
and reducing emissions as two specific
environmental benefits realized by data
analytics. " Modern process-control equipment
provides significant amounts of data that
can be used for proactive disturbance elimination
and process stabilization, promoting
not only safety, but higher efficiency and sustainability, "
explains Tom Lind, vice president
of technology and new solutions at Pöyry. Introducing
these principles into CPI sites will
require continued dedication and diligence
- integrating new elements piece by piece,
and improving upon existing solutions, mentions
Vasara. " It's an evolution rather than a
revolution, " he emphasizes.
Designing tools for end users
Although data availability and analysis technologies
have made massive strides in recent years,
these platforms are limited if end users cannot
easily apply them. TrendMiner (Hasselt, Belgium;
www.trendminer.com) provides an advanced
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analytics platform that engineers can use to
analyze, monitor and predict massive timeseries
data. " We are aware that the engineers
we work with are not data scientists,
but chemical engineers. They have a different
background and different questions arise for
them, " says Thomas Dhollander, chief technology
officer and co-founder of TrendMiner. " We
identified a number of day-to-day questions
that process experts are confronted with, and
we found ways to answer them, " he explains.
Giving engineers the ability to interpret their
own data in ways that make sense to them
reduces the bottleneck of bringing in data
scientists to provide insight. For instance, an
engineer looking to diagnose a fouling problem
could search for similar instances in the
history of a unit and develop and validate a
hypothesis for future operational anomalies.
The system can recommend certain parameters
to suggest root causes and compare
events, and it can even reveal early indicators
for adverse asset behavior. " You can basically
create communication channels across
the plant about possible early indicators so
operators can intervene before abnormal situations
occur, " says Dhollander. Another benefit,
explains Edwin van Dijk, TrendMiner's vice
president of marketing, is ensuring that assets
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM
FEBRUARY 2018
FIGURE 1. Advances in data science and analytics are
rising to the unique challenges of CPI operations and are
beginning to capture the value of the rapidly evolving
industrial IoT
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