Managing and optimising the performance of reverse osmosis plants is the aim of a new application released by Birlasoft (India) Limited.
Created in collaboration with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, Bangalore, the Reverse Osmosis Monitoring and Optimisation (ROMO) 1.0 has been certified by SAP as ‘Built on SAP HANA Cloud Platform’ .
The application is designed as a comprehensive IoT framework that can be easily applied to all asset maintenance scenarios. Though originally designed as a ready-to-deploy application specifically for wastewater treatment and thermal power generation units, the framework can easily be adapted to other asset-intensive industries, for diverse asset categories, including heat exchangers and boilers.
The ROMO solution is built to capture machine-generated data from sensors in reverse osmosis plants, to provide real-time analytics to the plant operations manager, particularly on the performance of membranes in the water treatment plant. ROMO has been designed to predict and prevent membrane failure by monitoring membrane fouling and deterioration.
The efficiency and effectiveness of an RO plant is critical in the power or process industry, as unplanned outages can cause efficiency and productivity losses in the millions of dollars. The solution aims to improve plant efficiency by up to 20 per cent, reducing operation cost up to 25 per cent, and saving up to 50 per cent of membrane replacement cost.
“We are happy to support Birlasoft’s idea to address membrane failure and its prediction in reverse osmosis water treatment plants,” said Rudolf Held, global head of SAP Co-Innovation Lab, SAP SE. “Birlasoft engineers worked on our SAP HANA Cloud Platform to help provide a comprehensive set of tools and libraries to design and deploy applications that can apply advanced analytical processing across large volumes and varieties of data from different sources, including remote device sensors, to enable IoT scenarios.”
