Method and system for monitoring plant operating capacity
AssigneeNuvo Ventures, LLC
InventorsJack Nuszen, Thomas Vo
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Abstract
A monitoring system is disclosed for acquiring output activity, utilization capacity and/or effluent data from an facility on a facility-by-facility and/or an industry-by-industry basis. The system is designed to generate a plant and/or industry output activity database that is updated on a continuous, near continuous, periodic and/or intermittent basis so that subscribers are apprised of changes in plant or overall industry output. A clearing house is also disclosed for distributing the acquired data to subscribers to aid in analyzing, predicting trends, pricing, maintaining, adjusting, minimizing, and/or maximizing individual plant or overall industry output.
Claims17
A system for monitoring and determining plant output activity comprising:
- an imaging subsystem capable of imaging a site of an industrial facility and capturing image data associated with the site, and
- an analysis subsystem for converting the image data into plant output activity, capacity utilization and/or effluent compositional data.
A method for monitoring and determining plant output activity comprising the steps of:
- imaging stacks and/or stack effluent plumes generated by an industrial facility or units thereof using an imaging subsystem,
- producing image output data including at least thermal data of the stacks and/or plumes using an analysis subsystem, and
- converting the image data into plant output capacity data.
A method for monitoring industrial output comprising the steps of:
- providing a monitoring system for some or all facilities of a desired industry;
- imaging stacks and/or stack effluent plumes generated by each industrial facility or units thereof using an imaging subsystem of the monitoring system for each facility,
- producing image output data including at least thermal data of the stacks and/or plumes for each monitored facility using an analysis subsystem,
- correcting the image output data for existing environmental factors for each monitored facility using a data processing subsystem, and
- converting the image data into plant output capacity data for each monitored facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.