OPC UA Information Model for Energy-Flexible Aqueous Parts Cleaning Machines
摘要
To reduce carbon emissions, renewable energies are being integrated into power grids worldwide, but their inherent volatility leads to overproduction or underproduction of electricity. Besides using costly electrical storage, supply and demand can be synchronized utilizing energy flexibility of industrial consumers. Industrial aqueous parts cleaning machines have significant potential for energy-flexible operation. VDI 5207 suggests various energy flexibility measures, such as utilizing the inherent storage capacities of rinsing tanks. This paper introduces an energy synchronization platform and an OPC UA interface for operating machines in an energy-flexible manner. It combines data on composition and electricity prices to generate flexibility measures. A central OPC UA server communicates with the market platform and distributes these measures to machine-specific servers, automating the machine’s operation and documenting energy consumption and \(\mathrm {CO_2}\) emissions. The concept is tested on the BvL YukonDAD cleaning machine at the ETA factory of TU Darmstadt.