Chapter 9 Plant Energy Management

Abstract In the IMC-AESOP project, a plant energy management use case was developed to highlight advantages of service orientation, event-driven processing and information models for increased performance, easier configuration, dynamic synchronisation and long-term maintenance of complicated multi-layer solutions, which are deployed nowadays in the continuous process plants. From the applica-tion perspective, three scenarios were implemented including advanced control and real-time optimisation of an industrial utility plant, enterprise energy management enabling interactions with the external electricity market, and advanced alarm man-agement utilizing the Complex Event Processing technology. Industrial operating companies have to pay increasing attention to monitoring and optimisation of energy efficiency and carbon emissions. In oil refineries and other enterprises in the petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, or paper-making indus-try, the utility plant is responsible for the major supply of energy – primarily stea