Data model

Facilities

Facilities represent discrete physical locations, such as refineries, manufacturing plants, or storage facilities, within which a single, or multiple, interconnected processes may be taking place. Facilities constitute one of the product’s core building blocks that can be leveraged to model an organization's asset base within the platform, and group multiple emissions sources together within a shared context. Facilities will contain multiple types and instances of equipment, each of which is being used to model an associated emissions exchange.

Facilities

Equipment

Equipment represents the base object within the Validere Platform upon which emissions quantifications are performed. These assets can be used to model physical entities such as tanks, pipelines, or processing units, or associated processes like combustion or chemical reactions, that result in the exchange of pollutants with the environment. The magnitude of this exchange can in turn be calculated through the association of an air emissions estimation method, and a given instance of equipment. By necessity, equipment must exist within the context of a higher level facility.

Equipment

Flows

Flows can be used within the Validere Platform to model the concept of interconnectivity between assets, such as Equipment, Facilities, or other pre-existing Flows. Through this application, Flows can be used to quantify and report on the interactions that occur between physical assets and streams of commodities, such as natural gas or crude oil, as they move throughout an organization's asset base.

Flows

Asset Groups

Asset Groups allow users to define higher level groupings of assets within the Validere Platform, for the purpose of analyzing behavior across multiple lower level assets, such as groupings of Equipment, Facilities, or Flows. These newly defined groupings can in turn be treated as assets in their own right, allowing for the assignment of estimation methods, analysis tools, or regulatory compliance requirements, streamlining complex analyses and reporting tasks.

Asset Groups

Devices

Devices can be used to model real-world instances of measurement data collection, like that collected by a meter or a gauge. As real data is captured, it can be stored and associated within the platform through the use of a device, which will track the relevant details, such as the type of measurement (e.g., temperature, pressure, flow rate), device location, and the key measurement values that are being recorded.

Devices