Pipeline Pumping Optimization

Real-time Data Analysis Delivers Optimized Pumping Schedules

IntelliSense.io’s Pipeline Pumping Optimization application integrates with existing data historian systems, performing real time data analysis to deliver optimization schedules and track their impact on the pipeline operation. Typically used by operators, process engineers and decision makers.

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The Pipeline Optimization Application ensures that the right decision is made at the right time even when operators are busy with other issues.

Made for Your Mining Challenges

On site water is pumped into a succession of tanks using long high throughput pipelines, this presents certain challenges:

Energy costs are very high
Switching pumps on and off contributes to pump wear, which incurs additional significant costs
Unexpected pump breakdowns lead to higher maintenance costs and require maintenance personnel to intervene
If pumping is not balanced across pumps, some will wear faster than others, which makes planned maintenance scheduling more difficult

How it Helps

IntelliSense.io’s Pipeline Pumping Optimization Application, powered by the IntelliSense brains.app platform, has been built for purpose to:

Give an optimized schedule for the next several hours of operation
Optimize at the entire pipeline level as opposite to existing Cascade Control Logic which looks at the upstream tank levels individually
Provide the best possible specific power for stable demand
Proactively seek the strategy with the minimal possible number of pump switches
Adapt quickly to unexpected change and offer a new strategy

A Solution Panel in the Pipeline Pumping Application showing an overview of the process in real-time

The operator screen presents the recommended pump schedule to the operator. It is composed of three main sections:

Matrix for the tracking of pumps and recommended actions in the top left corner
Graph of past, current and predicted (several hours in advance) tank levels in the top right corner
Matrix to toggle status of pumps at the bottom

Value

The IntelliSense Pipeline Pumping Optimization Application will:

Assure continued transport of the demand water volume at the minimum possible energy consumption and free up operator time
Increase pump life expectancy by reducing the number of pumps switches ON/OFF and operating the pumps in line with best practices
Improve safety by reducing the risk of tanks being overfilled or emptying, reducing operational risks
Mitigate environmental risk by avoiding spillages caused by overfilled tanks

8%

less energy usage per year

50%

reduction in pump switches

”We are happy with the results delivered by the system to date: reduced energy consumption provided assurance of volume of water delivery and improved pump condition. The system is currently running successfully at the site and we have started the process of fully automated operation of the SAR Pipeline.”

Vice President Engineering

Anglo American

8% less energy usage per year and a 50% reduction in pump switches achieved by the Pipeline Pumping Optimization Application at a Chilean Copper Mine

Mine to Market: Value Chain Optimization

The Pipeline Pumping Optimization Application is one of a suite of real-time decision-making applications that uses AI to optimize each process; from mine to market.

Our Material Handling model connects these applications to drive even greater efficiency.

Our process optimization apps can be deployed on a specific process bottleneck or expanded across the entire value chain. They are powered by our Industrial AI Decision Intelligence Platform, brains.app.