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How Much Steam Is the Boiler Making?

From the feed water flow, temperature and pressure, how much steam is the refinery boiler producing? A model that tracks it gives operators a second opinion when a flow meter drifts.

Use caseEnergyPredictionModel evaluation

The table

Sensor readings from an industrial boiler at a Turkish refinery, with feed water flow, temperature and pressure and the steam output flow. It's in Welt's research catalogue as TUPRAS Boiler Sensor Measurements, 44,643 rows by 8 columns, licensed CC0. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.76. At 44,643 rows and 7 features the table is larger than the model limits allow, so the walkthrough evaluates and fits on a seeded sample of 8,000 rows. TabICLv2 and Kumo Tabular Medium compete.

Walkthrough

  1. Load it from the catalogue

    Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.

    import pandas as pd
    from welt import Client
    
    with Client() as client:
        item = client.research_datasets(q="TUPRAS boiler", limit=1)["items"][0]
        info = client.research_dataset(item["id"])
        data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"])
    
    target = info["targets"][0]
    target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target
    print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)
  2. Pick the rows

    Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end. The models learn from a seeded sample of 8,000 of the rest, the most this table's width allows.

    known = data.dropna(subset=[target])
    new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1)
    table = known.drop(new_rows.index).sample(8000, random_state=7)
  3. Compare the models and predict

    The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. RMSE and MAE are average errors in the target's own units, so lower is better. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.

    with Client() as client:
        evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="regression", seed=7,
                                     models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium"])
        model = evaluation.fit()
    
    print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "rmse_mean", "mae_mean"]])
    features = new_rows.drop(columns=target)
    print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features)}))

What you get

A virtual steam meterAn estimate of steam flow from the other sensors.
Drift spottedA gap between the estimate and the meter flags a sensor to check.
Small table, quick answerSeven inputs, no tuning.

Try it

Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "TUPRAS boiler", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".