Industrial validation and pilot deployment of the CITRUS component health monitoring tool in the power generation sector

柑橘（组件完整性和技术准备利用系统）是一个独立的软件，由MatAlytics有限公司设计（一个新成立的诺丁汉大学的分支机构），以填补现有的市场空白的能力，准确地监测结构“健康”的关键部件，在服务中，实时。该项目将促进翻译目前的CITRUS原型到商业专业版本，以及进行工业验证案例研究和现场试点部署。这些活动将与承诺的项目合作伙伴Uniper和EDF一起进行。一个由基础机械、材料科学和人工智能专业知识组成的项目团队已经组建起来执行这个项目。发电厂是CITRUS商业化的主要目标市场，因此在此背景下，CITRUS流式传输工厂传感器数据（温度和压力），并结合人工智能技术，将几个创造性的实施步骤组合起来，以实时地将该信息转换成累积的部件损坏和剩余寿命，以前没有的能力。因此，CITRUS首次为关键工程系统的运营商提供了在组件保护和商业利益之间实现明智和优化平衡的能力。采用CITRUS的发电厂还可以实现其他影响，包括提高系统效率，从而降低燃料消耗和排放，提高法规遵从性，并增强工厂安全性。该项目的活动最终将在英国Uniper发电厂进行试点现场部署，这将导致CITRUS在同一工厂的首次商业化。已经建立了几条商业增长路线，包括一旦实现商业化，EPRI将在其全球会员中获得认可。其他商业增长途径包括在项目合作伙伴工厂组合内进行扩张，以及开发CITRUS的其他行业版本，包括一级方程式赛车、航空航天、金属加工和可再生能源。通过该项目将这一创新推向市场的更广泛利益包括通过建立新业务和支付相关税收来增强地方和国家经济，创造的就业机会以及对实现环境和政府目标的贡献。

CITRUS (Component Integrity and Technology Readiness Utilisation System) is an independent software, designed by MatAlytics Ltd (a newly established University of Nottingham spin-out), to fill the existing market gap of the capability to accurately monitor the structural "health" of in-service critical components, in real-time.This project will facilitate the translation of the current CITRUS prototype into a commercially professional version, and for industrial validation case studies and a pilot onsite deployment to be conducted. These activities will be conducted with committed project partners, Uniper and EDF.A project team comprising expertise in fundamental mechanical, material science and artificial intelligence has been assembled to conduct this project.Powerplants are the primary target market for the commercialisation of CITRUS and so within this context, CITRUS streams plant sensor data (temperatures and pressures) and combines several inventive implementation steps, in conjunction with artificial intelligence techniques, to convert this information into accumulated component damage and remaining life, in real-time, a previously unavailable capability. CITRUS therefore offers operators of critical engineering systems the ability to achieve an informed and optimised balance of component preservation and commercial benefit, for the first time. Other impacts that well be realised by powerplants that deploy CITRUS include increased system efficiency and therefore reduced fuel consumption and emissions, increased compliance to regulation and enhanced plant safety.The activities within this project, culminating in a pilot onsite deployment at a UK Uniper powerplant, will lead to the immediate first commercialisation of CITRUS, at the same plant. Several commercial growth routes have been established, including the proposed endorsement of EPRI across their global membership, once commercialisation has been achieved. Other commercial growth routes include expansion within the project partner plant portfolios and the development of additional sector versions of CITRUS, including formula-1, aerospace, metal processing and renewable energy.Wider benefits to bringing this innovation to market, via this project, include local and national economic enhancement through the establishment of a new business, and the associated taxes paid, and jobs created and contribution to the achievement of environmental and governmental targets.