PREDICTION OF AVAILABLE GENERATOR RUNNING TIME

摘要

At least one aspect of the invention is directed to a power monitoring system including a generator coupled to a fuel tank, a plurality of monitors, and a processor configured to monitor one or more loads drawing power from the generator; monitor one or more parameters that affect the amount of power drawn by the one or more loads; monitor a fuel consumption rate of the generator; generate one or more load profiles for each of the one or more loads; receive a set of the one or more loads for which a predicted time is to be generated; receive values for the one or more parameters; generate a predicted load profile for the set of the one or more loads and the values of the one or more parameters; receive information indicating an amount of remaining fuel; and calculate a predicted available run time.

主权项

1. A method of predicting available run time of a generator to power a facility, the method comprising:
monitoring one or more loads drawing power from the generator; monitoring one or more parameters that affect the amount of power drawn by the one or more loads; monitoring a fuel consumption rate of the generator; generating one or more load profiles for each of the one or more loads, each load profile determining power drawn by a corresponding load over a period of time for a set of values of the one or more parameters; determining a set of the one or more loads for which a predicted time is to be generated; receiving values for the one or more parameters; generating a predicted load profile for the set of the one or more loads and the values of the one or more parameters; receiving information indicating an amount of remaining fuel; and calculating, on a computer system, a predicted available run time based on the power drawn by the predicted load profile, the fuel consumption rate of the generator, and the amount of remaining fuel.