Optimise combustion and operating mode in the power plant

Power plants optimise combustion and operating mode

Needs setupAI Act: no extra obligationsPlanning assignments & processesEnergy supply

Fits: Production, engineering & maintenance

Boilers and plant run closer to optimum efficiency in every load range, with less fuel and fewer emissions. The control room gets traceable suggestions for excess air, load distribution and start-up procedures instead of rules of thumb.

Is this for you?

  • Your plant has a control system with readings such as load, oxygen in the flue gas, CO, flue gas temperature and fuel quantity, stored over months.
  • The plant often runs at changing loads, e.g. due to fluctuating feed-in from wind and solar or heat demand in the district heating network.
  • You have process engineering and control engineering in-house, or a partner who is responsible for changes to the control system.
First step today

Take ten to twenty stable operating points of one boiler from the control system, with load, oxygen, CO, flue gas temperature and efficiency, without the plant name, and use the template below to find the best permissible point per load range. Compare it with what the control room runs today.

How to go about it

  1. Define the optimisation goal and hard limits
  2. Gather operating data and plant condition
  3. Have operating modes and setpoints suggested
  4. Check suggestions in trial operation
  5. Approve the operating mode and brief the control room
  6. Evaluate efficiency and deviations on an ongoing basis

Templates to copy

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EV-11 · Legal status 08.10.2026