Case Study: a utility company achieves faster, more fuel-efficient plant start-ups with Visplore

How performance engineers at a utility company efficiently optimized start-up and ramp-up operations

A utility company faced the challenge of optimizing the start-up and ramp-up procedures for its thermal power plants, a complex and tedious process that was critical for performance. Their engineers struggled to efficiently extract and compare operational data using traditional tools like Excel, which heavily relied on individual experience and intuition. They needed a solution to quickly identify periods of load changes and analyze key performance indicators without jeopardizing equipment safety.

The utility company implemented Visplore, a visual analytics tool. This enabled their engineers to intuitively extract operational data via pattern search, compare multiple parameters side-by-side, and calculate KPIs with just a few clicks. As a result, the analysis effort was reduced by a factor of 10. Furthermore, the insights gained allowed them to accelerate turbine start-up times by 30 minutes and reduce fuel consumption for these operations by 20% on average.