SCADA system for a central heating and power plant

Author

Iacob, Mihai ; Andreescu, Gheorghe-Daniel ; Muntean, Nicolae

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. & Appl. Inf., Politeh. Univ. of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

fYear

2009

fDate

28-29 May 2009

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

164

Abstract

Modern process control systems are used in industrial automations for flexibility, modularity and reliability, employing state of the art technology based on three concepts: distributed control system (DCS), programmable logic controller (PLC) and most importantly supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). This paper deals with design and implementation of a SCADA system for a central heating and power plant, which is planned to supervise and control field distributed electric devices using Siemens equipment and software ldquoprocess control system 7rdquo (PCS7). The system also allows web-based applications via OPC and Web server by using the existing communication infrastructure. Redundancy is present at the server levels. The system is currently in use at COLTERM Central Heating and Power Plant South (CET South) of Timisoara.

Keywords

SCADA systems; distributed control; heating; power engineering computing; programmable controllers; SCADA system; Web server; central heating; distributed control system; industrial automations; modern process control systems; power plant; programmable logic controller; supervisory control and data acquisition; Centralized control; Communication system control; Control systems; Distributed control; Heating; Power generation; Process control; Programmable control; SCADA systems; Temperature control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics, 2009. SACI '09. 5th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Timisoara

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4477-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4478-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SACI.2009.5136232

Filename

5136232