Find the Heat Rate Losses Burning Your Fuel Budget
DOTA AI compares actual vs. expected heat rate per unit, breaks the gap into controllable losses, and prices each one in fuel dollars.
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Illustrative data. No real utility names or plant names are used.
Plant performance engineers, plant managers, fuels and generation finance
PI holds the answer in forty thousand tags, but turning them into controllable heat rate losses and dollars takes a manual, multi-week performance study.
DOTA AI compares actual vs. expected heat rate per unit, breaks the gap into controllable losses, and prices each one in fuel dollars.
From a question to a deployed app.
Ask
Compare actual vs. expected heat rate by unit, break down controllable losses, and show fuel cost impact.
Connect
PI historian, unit design curves and fuel prices, with your heat rate method from Knowledge.
Break down
A waterfall splits the gap into six controllable losses and prices each one.
Act
Share with operations so the next condenser cleaning is scheduled by value, not the calendar.
- Unit 3 runs +390 Btu/kWh, worth $4.1M a year in fuel
- Condenser backpressure is the biggest loss: 140 Btu/kWh, $1.5M/yr
- Backpressure has climbed for 8 straight weeks
- Prioritize maintenance by fuel dollars, not by the calendar
The takeaway
Every Btu, accounted for.
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