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Higher Energy Performance at AbitbiBowater Knogami Mill Using Data Mining

April 1, 2010  By Pulp & Paper Canada


Meilleure performance nergtique l’usine d’AbitibiBowater -Knogami grce l’exploration des donnes

Meilleure performance nergtique l’usine d’AbitibiBowater -Knogami grce l’exploration des donnes

Abstract: The AbitibiBowater Knogami mill has made a lot of efforts in the past years to improve their energy efficiency through measurement system and good energy practices. To achieve and sustain higher energy performance, the mill worked together with Pepite Technologies Inc. to develop an innovative energy management step-by-step approach. Several data mining tools have been implemented to troubleshoot root causes of energy variations and to build model-based KPIs and smart alarms to sustain high performance. This approach helps the mill to save $600,000 per year without any extra investment.

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Paper presented at the PAPTAC 95th Annual Meeting in Montreal, Que., February 3-4, 2009.

Keywords: ENERGY EFFICIENCY, COST REDUCTION, TMP REBOILER OPTIMIZATION, SMART MONITORING, DATA MINING, INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING.

Full manuscript available at www.paptac.ca.


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