Sustainability Platform Action Planning for Abatement Technology Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Challenges exist in efficiently tracking and improving sustainability parameters across enterprise operations, including energy, carbon, waste, and water consumption, while identifying opportunities for enhancing sustainability within hydrocarbon enterprises.
Innovation Solution
A sustainability platform system that collects data on sustainability parameters, identifies abatement technologies, and generates action plans to adjust operations, incorporating real-time feedback mechanisms to achieve sustainability targets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional manual tracking methods are used for sustainability parameters, then implementation complexity is low, but measurement precision and productivity are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual tracking mechanisms with an automated computational system that uses algorithms to calculate sustainability parameters. The system substitutes human-operated mechanical tracking with electronic data processing, achieving higher precision through automated computation while managing complexity through software-based solutions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically collecting data from enterprise operations, computing sustainability parameters without manual intervention, and generating action plans autonomously. The platform serves itself by integrating data collection, analysis, and recommendation generation into a single automated workflow.
2Productivity
If comprehensive sustainability tracking is implemented across all enterprise operations, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial action by focusing computational resources on identifying and addressing the most significant sustainability improvement opportunities rather than uniformly processing all data. The platform prioritizes actions based on potential impact, applying computational power selectively to high-value areas while reducing processing for lower-priority parameters.
3Adaptability or versatility
If action plans are updated frequently based on real-time data, then adaptability improves, but loss of time for processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where sustainability parameters are monitored in real-time, and action plans are automatically updated based on detected changes. The feedback mechanism triggers updates only when parameter changes exceed predefined thresholds, balancing adaptability with processing efficiency by avoiding unnecessary frequent updates.
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AI summary
An enterprise system may include one or more devices that perform respective operations of an enterprise and a sustainability platform system. The sustainability platform system may obtain a sustainability model representative of a state of operations of the enterprise and sustainability target data of target constraints on one or more sustainability parameters of the enterprise. Additionally, the sustainability platform system may identify one or more abatement technologies from a database of multiple abatement technologies based on the sustainability model and the sustainability target data and generate a sustainability action plan for implementing at least one abatement technology of the identified abatement technologies such that the at least one abatement technology, when implemented via the sustainability action plan, is estimated to satisfy the sustainability target data. The sustainability platform system may also send commands to the devices to adjust their respective operations according to the sustainability action plan.