CO2 Monitoring in the Context of an Energy Data System ATPEDS

Abstract

Nearly ten years ago the process for the efforts of reducing the carbon dioxide (CO2) amount in the air started. Finally a cap and trade system was installed, which obligates plants and factories, emitting CO2, to use certificates corresponding to their emission rates. Therefore in 2003 Verbund Austrian Thermal Power ordered an energy data system, which had to handle all kinds of data around a power plant, especially the emissions and certificates. The system, based on Oracle’s application server and data base, has been implemented by Simutech. It has to deal with different data sources and sinks. Special attention is paid to security and safety of measurement values, leading to strict rules for the access, change journaling and the value correctness. A formula module and different graphical, e.g. online displays support the evaluation of now more than five thousand parameters, among which the emission and certificate computation is one of the most important one.