Combustion Experience 4.0
X4FIRE — WE FIRE DIFFERENT
we are reinventing technical solutions for the combustion systems industry as we know it thanks to intelligent technologies and the connection between human and digital workforce.
ABSTRACT
In today’s industrial plant sector, including combustion plants, we are convinced that it is no longer sufficient to be a supplier of high-level technical and technological solutions.
The industry is changing rapidly. Today’s plants are required to operate in new sustainable ways that differ from their original concept.
Industrial plant sector, including combustion plants around the world, face growing pressure to drive their plants’ performance to new levels — enhancing reliability, efficiency, output, flexibility, and sustainability while lowering life cycle costs.
In the actual global scenario, we are convinced that it is no more enough to be a provider of top level technical and technological solutions. Market is already driven from Companies that, all in all, will be able to be a developer of EFFICIENT LIME PLANTS, a source of EFFECTIVE LIME PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE, and provider of the DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION by the merge of humans & digital workforces: the FUTURE of WORK.
Whether you need more output, improved emissions, extended asset life or enhanced operational flexibility to run at lower loads or on a non-traditional fuel, you need a comprehensive suite of expertise providing the capability and flexibility to position your plant for a successful future.
That’s why as we promote X4FIRE: a comprehensive suite of expertise providing you the capability and flexibility to position your plant for a successful future. Whether you need more output, improved emissions, extended asset life or enhanced operational flexibility to run at lower loads or on a non-traditional fuel, X4FIREcan customize a solution to meet your commitments.
X4FIRE PROJECT
Within the domain of combustion plants we have developed the X4FIRE solution, along the entire supply chain: from the storage or the point of availability of the fuel, up to the control of combustion exhaust gases, passing through a precise monitoring and optimization of the combustion process.
DIG:ITA, through X4FIRE partners, is reinventing the technical solution for the combustion systems industry as we know it thanks to intelligent technologies and the connection between human and digital workforce.
Through X4FIRE pool, we can deliver solutions for combustion systems industry assets across 25+ OEM brands: a network of technological providers, for fuel sotrage, fuel dosing & combustion (including alternative fules) and emissions control.
This will increase agility and innovation, enabling combustion plants to operate more efficiently and faster.
One of the main challenges of the X4FIRE project is to standardize the management and optimization of the combustion process along all its components: from storage, i.e. from the point of availability of the fuel, to the control of combustion exhaust gases, passing through precise monitoring and optimization of the actual combustion process.
Normally each macro component is made by different technical and technological suppliers:
- the supplier of the fuel storage plant (think for example of solid fuel storage silos, i.e. storage tanks for gaseous or liquid fuels);
- the supplier of the dosing and combustion plant;
- the supplier of the combustion flue gas management systems.
Each component is normally also managed:
- by different and not interconnected control software (PLC) and monitoring software (SCADA-HMI), without a complete plant mapping;
- by different types of data not connected to each other;
- from data not always available in digital form
The innovation of the X4FIRE solution lies in the creation of a single DIGITAL-TWIN, a single digital image of the complete system, harmonizing the data coming from the field and each component within a single database while creating a man-machine and machine-machine communication platform.
The X4FIRE project is divided into three main phases:
- First of all, the internal combustion plant has been mapped in all its components grouped in three macro-sections: Fuel storage plant;
Combustion plant itself; Plant for the management of the exhaust fumes of combustion; - A single hardware and software architecture has been created to collect all the field data within a single database, asynchronous to the operation of the plant itself, containing all the big data, and constantly synchronized in the Cloud.
- The data thus standardized were then broken down into classes of cross-sectional information: Analog and digital alarms & events; Process/cycle data;
- Finally, classes of analytics were identified, both ex-post and predictive, through machine learning systems;
These outcomes have allowed to be addressed to human and digital workforce according to the exact space-time needs in order to:
- optimize the fuel supply and storage system,
highlighting “safe” times & zones to increase safety during loading/unloading procedures - Optimize the energy efficiency of fuel use in the reference process
- Continuously monitor exhaust gas emissions into the atmosphere
“This is the perfect time to discuss the benefits of an IIoT solution with your company’s stakeholders.
Early adopters are enjoying very attractive rates for the IIoT solutions and service available today. On top of that, the competitive edge you will gain will keep your company relevant for many years after the IIoT is “the standard” in manufacturing.”
X4FIRE for sustainability
To ensure sustainable economic growth, we all have to take action.
QualiCal is committed to improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production.
