Energy
The demand for diverse energy sources is on the rise. Altair helps customers navigate this evolving landscape by focusing on sustainable energy generation, efficient distribution, and reliable power grid management. With cutting-edge data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), simulation, and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions, leaders in oil and gas, renewable energy, and other sectors can optimize processes from geomechanics to wind turbine design. Together, we’re shaping the future of energy.
Renewables
The global focus on integrating renewable sources into the grid while ensuring a stable and reliable energy supply is fierce. To do this, organizations and governments need tools to improve energy storage, enhance forecasting accuracy, and implement predictive maintenance. Altair’s sustainable energy solutions boost renewable energy systems’ efficiency and scalability – helping create a cleaner, more resilient future.
Oil and Gas
Increasing safety, improving efficiency, and reducing costs are essential priorities in oil and gas. Optimizing exploration and production processes, advancing drilling techniques, and minimizing environmental impact are key. Altair’s solutions in predictive maintenance and supply chain optimization help businesses meet these objectives and streamline operations.
Utilities
Enhancing utility operations, such as grid management and energy distribution, is crucial. Improving demand forecasting, ensuring reliable power during peak periods, and optimizing infrastructure management are all vital in meeting growing energy demands and ensuring sustainability. Altair’s advanced technologies drive innovation, improve operational efficiency, and help utilities deliver better service while meeting the industry’s toughest challenges.
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Digital Twins for Optimized Product Performance
Altair's digital twin solutions are transforming the energy industry by using simulation, machine learning, and AI to create virtual representations of physical assets like wind turbines, solar farms, power grids, and more. This technology optimizes energy production, reduces operational costs, and improves the efficiency of renewable energy systems. Real-time monitoring and analysis of operational data helps energy companies proactively identify and address potential issues such as equipment failures or grid imbalances, improving reliability and preventing costly downtime.
Generative AI and Data Analytics
Integrating intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar while also maintaining complex infrastructure presents significant challenges. By providing accurate energy generation forecasts, generative AI optimizes grid management and storage, reducing reliance on fossil fuels. It also helps identify potential equipment failures, enabling proactive maintenance that minimizes downtime. Altair® RapidMiner® enhances the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of renewable energy systems.
Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge graphs connect and organize data for better, more efficient decision-making. They improve asset management, optimize energy trading, and streamline supply chains. By integrating data from production, distribution, and renewable sources, they support smart grid management, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation. Altair RapidMiner’s knowledge graph solution enables smarter, more sustainable energy solutions and personalized customer services
Increase Network Efficiency
Engineers need new methods to improve the energy efficiency of power networks from generation to consumption. To address this challenge, Altair’s comprehensive power electronics and electromagnetic solutions offer advanced electromagnetic, electrical, and thermal simulation technology to optimize power generation and energy storage systems. The solutions’ seamless predictive analysis delivers valuable insights for all transmission and distribution components, including power transformers, cables, electric switchboards, switchgears, contactors, relays, sensors, and switches.
Rapid Design Iterations
Companies are accelerating their development with Altair’s structural simulation solution, which provides intuitive, lightning-fast workflows for everything from concept design to detailed product validation. The simulation-driven approach empowers engineers and analysts of all skill levels with next-gen analysis and optimization technology that eliminates time-consuming geometry preparation and meshing while delivering deeper insights and faster design evaluation.
Altair HPC for Energy
Energy powers our world, and HPC enables the computation that makes capturing, producing, and optimizing energy possible. From wind energy to oil and gas exploration and production, Altair HPC supports robust computing performance and the biggest, most complex, and highest-throughput workloads — plus I/O profiling, license optimization, easy user and administrator tools, and more — for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid computing.
Streamline Aerodynamics and Thermal
Enhance energy systems’ aerodynamic and thermal performance with Altair's CFD solutions. Optimize wind turbine blade design, analyze rotor-tower interaction, and improve wind farm layouts for maximum energy capture. For solar power plants, simulate airflow and heat transfer to boost panel efficiency and mitigate thermal stresses. Altair CFD™ also plays a crucial role in the oil and gas sector, optimizing pipeline flow, combustion processes, and exploration strategies. Panel-method aerodynamics, combined with modern computational techniques, accelerates innovation for alternative energy designs by minimizing time and complexity.
Featured Resources
Digital Twin for Sustainable Energy
Improving lifetime value of a fusion powerplant using a physics-based digital twin. Assystem is an international engineering and digital services group focused on low-carbon projects that accelerate the transition to clean energy. Assystem is committed to the development of decarbonized electricity (fusion energy, renewables and electricity grids) and clean hydrogen. The Assystem team wanted to leverage the expensive design models to create a digital twin by inputting the sensor data that was livestreamed from the plant, which helps engineers understand the plant's structural integrity and further optimize inspection and maintenance schedules.
Leveraging Disruptive Technology in Structural Simulation in Oil and Gas
CEA Speeds Up EDA for Research - Powering R&D at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
CEA Tech, the Grenoble-based technology research unit for the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a global leader in miniaturization technologies that enable smart digital systems and secure, energy-efficient solutions for industry. Its multidisciplinary team of experts tackles critical challenges in healthcare, energy, digital migration, and more in world-class facilities. CEA Tech needed to improve license utilization and ensure that licenses are freed quickly to be made available to queued jobs. The team sped up R&D using Altair® Accelerator™ for EDA job scheduling and Altair® Monitor™ for real-time license monitoring. One series of single-user simulations showed a speed increase of more than 4.5x using Accelerator.
Simulate at the Speed of Design in the Oil and Gas Industry Featuring TechnipFMC
In this webinar, Engineering Manager Roger Dailly and Design Engineer Sean Dobie will summarise a 6-month long trial undertaken by TechnipFMC on Altair SimSolid. They will cover some of the projects trialled using the software and discuss some of the key opportunities seen by using SimSolid over traditional mesh-based FEA software.
