Enterprise Sustainability Alerts With Modular Action Plan Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Challenges exist in tracking and improving sustainability parameters across enterprise operations, particularly in hydrocarbon enterprises, to achieve net zero carbon emissions and reduce waste while optimizing resource use.
Innovation Solution
A sustainability platform system collects data from various sources, determines sustainability alerts, and generates action plans to adjust operations, incorporating real-time feedback for continuous improvement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sustainability parameters are tracked across enterprise operations using traditional methods, then comprehensive monitoring is achieved, but computational costs increase and precision decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the sustainability monitoring system into modular components: data collection modules at different enterprise levels, alert determination modules that process specific sustainability parameters, and action plan generation modules. This segmentation allows parallel processing of different sustainability metrics (carbon emissions, waste, energy consumption) independently, improving measurement precision while distributing computational load to reduce overall energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where sustainability data is collected, analyzed against targets, and used to generate real-time alerts and updated action plans. The feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from historical data and improve precision over time without requiring proportional increases in computational resources, as the feedback optimizes the monitoring process itself.
2Productivity
If traditional sustainability monitoring systems are used, then basic tracking is achieved, but the ability to identify improvement opportunities and achieve net zero goals is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing sustainability targets and action plans before performance degradation occurs. Alert determination modules continuously compare actual sustainability data against predetermined targets, enabling early detection of deviations. This allows the enterprise to take corrective action proactively rather than reactively, improving overall sustainability productivity while maintaining complete information about performance gaps.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts sustainability action plans based on real-time data analysis and changing enterprise conditions. Rather than using static monitoring approaches, the system continuously updates action plans to reflect current sustainability performance, emerging improvement opportunities, and evolving net zero targets. This dynamic approach maximizes productivity while preserving all relevant sustainability information for decision-making.
3Measurement precision
If sustainability action plans are updated frequently based on real-time data, then precision in achieving sustainability goals improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sustainability platform system is designed with universal, multi-functional modules that can handle multiple sustainability parameters (carbon emissions, waste, energy, water) through a single integrated architecture. The data collection, alert determination, and action plan generation modules serve multiple functions across different enterprise operations, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high precision in tracking and managing all sustainability parameters through unified processes.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes receiving sustainability datasets associated with enterprise operations of an enterprise, such that the enterprise operations correspond to production data performed in a hydrocarbon production system, facility data related to utility operations within buildings associated with the enterprise, or both. The method may involve determining that one or more sustainability alerts are present for the enterprise operations based on the sustainability datasets; and identifying assets of the hydrocarbon production system, the one or more buildings, or both associated with the one or more sustainability alerts in response to determining that the one or more sustainability alerts are present. The method may include retrieving asset data associated with the assets, sending the asset data to engineering workflow systems, receiving updated action plans from the engineering workflow systems, and sending commands to devices to adjust operations based on the updated action plans.