Artificial Intelligence for Energy Efficiency Optimization in California Dairy Operations
Enpowered Solutions, LLC
Recipient
Irvine, CA
Recipient Location
37th
Senate District
73rd
Assembly District
$1,234,954
Amount Spent
Active
Project Status
Project Update
Two sites are online with revised control strategies and have also implemented advanced AI control. Data logging and tuning is ongoing to continue optimization. Three more sites are pending updates to control strategies following on-site installation and integration based on scheduling availability.
The Issue
California dairy standard control systems for various heating and cooling processes are mainly reactive and respond to aggregated plant demands. Even with advance controls such as VFD's and valve positioning, the energy efficiencies are still sub-optimal and cannot be sustained over long-term operations.
Project Innovation
The purpose of this project is to design and deploy the next-generation energy management technologies to optimize dairy processing performance at both the equipment level and across the whole plant, utilizing advanced process control systems that will use artificial intelligence and predictive model controls to improve energy efficiency and production values by using monitored data and results from previous experience and then automatically applying the machine learning in the control strategies at and across five dairy processing locations.
Project Goals
Project Benefits
The project will advance the energy efficiency of the various dairy processes by implementing artificial intelligence to learn and predict settings for optimal processing. The implementation aims to improve energy efficiency by 15% for the affected diary systems.
Affordability
The project's adaptive controls will give the customer greater reliability by optimizing dairy processes in real-time. This will ensure the product is produced at consistent parameters.
Reliability
The project's adaptive controls will give the customer greater reliability by optimizing dairy processes in real-time. This will ensure the product is produced at consistent parameters.
Subrecipients
RMS Energy Consulting, LLC
Rockwell Automation
Match Partners
RMS Energy Consulting, LLC
Rockwell Automation
Enpowered Solutions, LLC
