Synengco - Specialist Engineering Consultancy and Software

Synengco is a specialist engineering consultancy firm and the developer of the world leading SentientSystem™ software.

The company has been servicing industry since 1996 and is operational in both Australia and the USA where it is currently managing and analysing assets with a value in excess of $8 billion. Synengco provides a complete range of operations management and asset optimisation functions including:

• Operational reporting
• Real-time performance and reliability monitoring
• Process and plant modelling
• Process, plant and operational analysis
• Maintenance and plant modification analysis
• Advanced supervisory control and optimisation

Greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and related services

We also provide technology and services relating to greenhouse gas emissions and technology. We use a holistic framework for much of our work. This enables us to provide our clients with a more comprehensive analysis and solution than our competitors. The framework is customised to the requirements of each organisation.

Synengco has developed world-leading technology, SentientMonitor, to assist business and government to monitor and meet greenhouse gas emissions obligations. SentientMonitor:

• Is auditable: SentientMonitor provides an audit trail to prove compliance with greenhouse gas emissions targets
• Is accurate: SentientMonitor has a much lower error variance than other greenhouse gas monitoring options and has been independently assessed to provide an uncertainty to <1.5%
• Has real-time early warning: SentientMonitor technology gives you real-time feedback on greenhouse gas compliance
• Increases efficiency: SentientMonitor can be combined with our other products to enable you to increase efficiency and profitability by accurately monitoring and detecting fluctuations in plant performance

Synengco also offers the following products, tools and services to the power generation industry.

Advanced control systems, intelligent sootblowing and boiler optimisation

We have a range of advanced control systems including (but not limited to) intelligent sootblowing, boiler optimisation and unit optimisation. SentientBoilerClean is the next generation of intelligent sootblowing technology. The technology is customised to each unit, all sootblowing impacts identified and each sootblower managed individually. Commissioning is easy as no additional instrumentation is required and no plant outage is necessary.

Offline asset optimisation services – SentientAssetMax

SentientAssetMax is the advanced technology tool we use to conduct offline asset optimisation studies (including evaluations) of fuels, plant modifications, operational configuration modifications and despatch optimisation.

Operations management systems

Our services and technologies include operation management systems that provide (among other things), production statistic reporting, loss of availability systems, plant and equipment logging systems and shift report systems.

Performance management, plant and process reporting and monitoring

We offer a range of services and products relating to performance management including routine plant reporting, real-time plant and process monitoring for abnormal operation and/or performance, root cause analysis of plant and process, plant and process monitoring for overhaul planning and plant improvement investigations and feasibility studies.

Equipment and process early warning system

The world's most advanced early warning system, SentientAlert, features a framework for the comprehensive early warning system for equipment and process failures, high sensitivity to changes within a widely variable operation, problem identification, operator advice on addressing the problem, full automation, low cost analysis, variation from a base case, the application of predictive technologies and reduction of false alerts by as much as 80% compared to systems.

Root cause analysis technology – SentientCause

SentientCause provides root cause analysis of abnormal process and related equipment operation. It provides a hybrid framework based upon fundamental (physics) and statistical techniques.

The system provides accelerated analyses, data and time sets, rapid abnormal or fault identification, data / instrument validity checking, identification of component and event contribution to fault, analysis of long term vs short term contributions, comparison against previous operations and base case, quantification of process impact, quantification of financial impact and capture of knowledge for future use. SentientCause can be easily used by both experienced and new users.