Technology for calculating and verifying heat rate deviation and GHG emission levels
"CIDG technology" - enhanced energy efficiency of coal-fired power plants

Effective upgrade of the Polish power industry will not be possible without tools that enable precise quantification of the present state and the changes that it requires, as well as strict monitoring of the change implementation process. "CIDG Technology" is a perfect solution for the purpose, as it offers the most precise, and hence available in real time system for measuring all parameters that affect the power plant's efficiency and emission volumes. Importantly, "CIDG Technology" ensures reliable and precise information on the heat rate for individual components of the energy generation process and allows formulation of recommendations for an optimum investment programme. This enables power plants to save fuel and report CO2 emission reductions resulting also from the operability and precision of the measurement, as well as to implement any corrective measures. Specific modules of the system also allow optimisation of fuel purchases and maximisation of profit on emission rights sale.

 

  "CIDG Technology" also enables incorporation of Polish agriculture into the system. Huge effort by the team headed by Patrick R. Zimmerman, PhD, from the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, generated a CO2 emission measurement methodology, as well as a methodology for measuring CO2 absorption capability by agricultural farms of different production profiles, on a variety of soils, and using specific agricultural practices. Using an internet-connected computer, each farmer can report quantities of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere and absorbed after filling out an appropriate form, and obtain Certified Carbon Emission Reduction Credits, to resell them to the industry.

 

Key benefits of using the system:

  • facilitated upgrade of the Polish power sector;
  • improved business management process and reduced cost of their operation;
  • acquisition of precise data on greenhouse gas emission volume in the entire energy generation process;
  • improved efficiency of the share of Polish businesses in the rights trading market;
  • consolidation and integration of data on emissions from various sources in real time at corporation and/or domestic market level;
  • precise identification of areas where the greatest efficiency improvement potential exists;