ABSTRACTABSTRACTIt is important for academic institutions to look into the requirements of the industry and impart training to the students in the desired areas. SCADA is one such area having requirements in various p...
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ABSTRACTABSTRACTIt is important for academic institutions to look into the requirements of the industry and impart training to the students in the desired areas. SCADA is one such area having requirements in various process industries and particularly used in Critical infrastructure such as power, oil & gas, water, transportation,etc. Cybersecurity in the SCADA domain has become one of the more important concerns. The usage of open standard protocols for communication among SCADA devices that are not designed with security in mind is one of those vulnerable areas for any attacker. The SCADA architecture that the industry adopts is drawing more attention from a dedicated cyber attacker/ an enemy nation due to the extent of damage a catastrophe can create. Attacks on SCADA systems are increasing and their impact needs to be studied to implement proper countermeasures. Availability is one of the most important features in the SCADA system. Today the need of the hour is to explore various Smart Grid solutions like SCADA interoperability, SCADA data analytics, SCADA vulnerabilities, SCADA security, SCADA diagnostics, reliability, redundancy, and fault-tolerance,etc. for efficient management of the SCADA system. The academic institutions should equip themselves with the latest and advanced tools & technologies. By imparting training and conducting research in SCADA, the academic institutions would largely contribute to the scientific advancement of these technologies. This paper describes the visualization of a SCADA system in the laboratory environment, few real-time applications, and use cases and the research opportunities in the SCADA environment.
An architecture for integrated supervisory and logic control is presented together with a modeling formalism, Extended Finite Automata (EFA). It is argued that the architecture and modeling formalism may be used to ef...
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An architecture for integrated supervisory and logic control is presented together with a modeling formalism, Extended Finite Automata (EFA). It is argued that the architecture and modeling formalism may be used to efficiently represent many control programs formulated with sequential function charts and ladder logic. Since EFA is an extension to finite automata, EFA is also useful for modeling traditional supervisory control problems. With a small example it is argued that the presented architecture together with the EFA formalism can be used to efficiently verify and synthesize control functions that contain both supervisory control and traditional logic control.
Chemical processes, employed for manufacturing basic chemicals are highly energy intensive. Due to escalating costs of fossil fuels and capacity addition, the electricity cost has been increasing for the last few deca...
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Chemical processes, employed for manufacturing basic chemicals are highly energy intensive. Due to escalating costs of fossil fuels and capacity addition, the electricity cost has been increasing for the last few decades. Electricity intensive industries find it very difficult to cope up with higher electricity charges particularly with time-of-use (TOU) tariffs implemented by the utilities with the objective of flattening the load curve. Load management programs focusing on reduced electricity use at the time of utility's peak demand, by strategic load shifting, is a viable option for industries to reduce their electricity cost. This paper presents an optimization model and formulation for load management of continuous process industries. The case study of a chemical industry is taken for conducting load management study. The formulation utilizes nonlinear programming technique for minimizing the electricity cost and reducing the peak demand, by rescheduling the loads, satisfying the industry constraints. Development of a generalized graphical user interface (GUI) in Visual Basic for implementing load management actions in industries and testing the GUI with the case study are done. Real time implementation of load management actions using programmable logic controller (PLC) is also investigated.
The paper presents two different approaches to optimising operation speed of programmable logic controllers. First approach optimizes architecture of the CPU and the program execution. It shows the two processors bit-...
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The paper presents two different approaches to optimising operation speed of programmable logic controllers. First approach optimizes architecture of the CPU and the program execution. It shows the two processors bit-byte architecture which support of concurrent execution of bit and byte computation tasks. Second approach bases on hardware implemented control algorithm in reconfigurable platform based on FPGA. In second solution high performance is achieved by fully concurrent hardware execution of algorithm. Specific implementation tools enables typical PLC programming for hardware target platform.
This paper focuses on the possibilities of a Petri net based rapid control prototyping (RCP) tool chain. P/T nets extended by interfaces and connected to an extended state model allow the description of typical progra...
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This paper focuses on the possibilities of a Petri net based rapid control prototyping (RCP) tool chain. P/T nets extended by interfaces and connected to an extended state model allow the description of typical programmable logic controller tasks. After a general introduction to RCP, the method is applied to the area of sequential control, and code generation for the chosen model is depicted. The paper closes with an example for a tool chain, demonstrated by system simulation and Software-in-the-Loop for a subsystem of a flexible manufacturing system in an industrial fieldbus environment.
This paper reports on a series of lab experiments to evaluate the application of modelling notations in automation and control engineering. The focus of this evaluation was on two aspects: 1) analyzing and modelling t...
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This paper reports on a series of lab experiments to evaluate the application of modelling notations in automation and control engineering. The focus of this evaluation was on two aspects: 1) analyzing and modelling the problem or application and 2) implementing its solution into a control program in IEC 61131-3. The evaluated notations are the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Idiomatic Control Language (ICL): UML as nearly standard in computer science and ICL as powerful modelling notation from the distributed control systems world (DCS).
The paper presents a module of PID controller builds in FPGA structure of Reconfigurable logiccontroller. It presents algorithms used to built the controller and implementation process. Implementation process shows t...
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The paper presents a module of PID controller builds in FPGA structure of Reconfigurable logiccontroller. It presents algorithms used to built the controller and implementation process. Implementation process shows the ways of minimising the controller structure and increasing it performance in FPGA structures. Finally it discuses achieved result.
Flow-type organisation of production lines is often encountered in small and medium sized companies. In order to improve the through put, to ensure a high quality of the products and to reduce the manufacturing time, ...
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Flow-type organisation of production lines is often encountered in small and medium sized companies. In order to improve the through put, to ensure a high quality of the products and to reduce the manufacturing time, flexible automation is necessary, which naturally leads to the CIM approach. The paper describes a flow-type production line for can filling, which can be utilized both in the petrochemical and in the food industries. Considering the typical production line as a numerically controlled workcell, a parallel production structure with multitask workstations is proposed, leading thus to an efficient extension of the company’s shop floor. In such a parallel production line (PL) there are a number of identical multitask workcells (KTWC) which include a fixed number of workstations, seτeral Industrial Robots (IR) with interchangeable grippers and tools and diverting devices. The workstations perform all the necessary operations in order to obtain the final products. Thus the productivity of a PL is given by the sum of the productivities of its parallel branches. For such a process structure, the paper proposes a hierarchical control configuration. At the level of local automation, a number of programmable logic controllers (PLC) are used. Product transfer and handling requires the connection of the PLCs with the controller of two IR, in order to ensure the proper material flow between the production branches. Manufacturing in the PL is integrated by a high-level computer, which analyses order entries, performs job scheduling for the branches which execute identical products, diverts products of different type, downloads programs and reference data to the local controllers, receives information concerning the current state of the production and modifies the job flow according to temporary stops or failures in the individual branches.
This study developed an automated filtration system for a selected rotifer, Brachionus ibericus. This system is controlled by a programmable logic controller, and it enables the high-density cultivation of marine roti...
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This study developed an automated filtration system for a selected rotifer, Brachionus ibericus. This system is controlled by a programmable logic controller, and it enables the high-density cultivation of marine rotifers and the selection of rotifers for palatability. We tested seven mesh sizes (300, 200, 100, 50, 20, 5, and 1 mu m) for commercial 10-inch (25.4-cm) stainless steel tubular filters in the proposed system, after which we selected the optimal mesh size for filtering impurities, separating rotifers, eliminating wastewater, and minimizing the rotifer loss rate. The results indicated that a combination of the 5- and 200-mu m meshes produced optimal filtration efficiency. After every 120 s of filtration followed by a 30-s flushing process, a rotifer density of 3170 +/- 101 individuals/ml, a mesh blocking loss rate of 4.95 +/- 3.62%, and impurity-free rotifer volume of 45.18 +/- 1.2 L were obtained. Our study verified that tubular filters can be used in commercial aquaculture.
An apparatus to automate completely the processing of Western blots is described. The prototype is based on a popular rotisserie system design. The incubation chamber consists of an inner cylinder that rotates inside ...
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An apparatus to automate completely the processing of Western blots is described. The prototype is based on a popular rotisserie system design. The incubation chamber consists of an inner cylinder that rotates inside an outer cylinder (incubation chamber). The blot is contained in the inner cylinder. Two magnets are mounted at one end of the inner cylinder, and rotation of the inner cylinder is effected by two magnets mounted on a motor drive outside the incubation chamber. Movement of chemicals into and out of the incubation chamber is driven pneumatically, and the entire process is controlled by a computer. Processing a blot for chemiluminescent detection takes 7 h to complete without human intervention. The quality of the resulting image is comparable to or better than a blot using manual processing. In addition, the prototype is capable of re-collecting all three antisera. for future use.
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