Building on its digital business capabilities, Doosan Energy is partnering with POSCO in the power generation sector in Korea and overseas.
Doosan Energy announced on July 8 that it has signed a contract with the Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST), a steel and environmental energy technology research institute, to provide data analysis services for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the sintering process. RIST is a research institute wholly owned by POSCO and plays a central role in promoting the POSCO Group’s core businesses.
Under the agreement, Doosan Energy will analyze the applicability of AI services based on data obtained from RIST and POSCO Steel’s sintering facility by the end of December this year. Sintering is a technology that applies heat and pressure to solid powder to bond the powder particles into a single mass. In steelworks, the sintering process is used to turn uneven iron ore into uniformly sized sintered ore and then produce steel.
“This contract will combine Doosan Enablility’s digital technology, which has been proven at power plants both at home and abroad, with RIST’s innovative research and development achievements to increase the energy efficiency of the sintering facility and improve the quality of the sintered ore produced,” said Song Young-jin, head of strategy and innovation at Doosan Enablility.
Doosan Energy has been running a digital innovation organization consisting of a data analytics team and a digital solutions team since 2013. The digital innovation organization is providing AI-based optimization solutions to a 1,000-megawatt power plant in South Korea, connecting it to the control network to improve efficiency. The company is expanding various digital businesses, including PreVision, a predictive and diagnostic solution, and an automatic defect reading solution for non-destructive testing.
