Dr D Y Patil Educational Enterprises Charitable Trust’s

Dr D Y Patil School of Engineering & Technology

Dr D Y Patil Knowledge City, Charholi (Bk.), Via. Lohgaon, Pune – 412 105

Experiment No. 05
Aim:

Design 3 cylinder piston pump using pneumatic kit & PLC.

Objectives:

1. Study pneumatic kit.

2. PLC kit

Introduction:

Pneumatics is successfully used in many areas of industrial automation. Pneumatic Trainer

facilitates the students and the industrial professionals to explore the fundamental of
“pneumatics”. It tells how one device can be used to manage, command, direct or regulate the
behavior of other system. Pneumatics is a branch of science that is related with Air. In
pneumatics the working medium is “Compressed Air”. Now - a - days this working medium is
becoming very popular in industries like chemical, petroleum, gases, food & beverage, robotics,
machineries etc. The reason for being so popular is that it is fire free and nonhazardous to our
environment. And it is abundantly available in nature. It is very easy, simple and safe to operate.
Pneumatic Trainer assist user to understand the principle performance of the pneumatic
components as well as different actuators. Another additional feature of Pneumatic Trainer, it has
both manual and automatic based control.

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Pneumatic Trainer Kits are known for their accuracy and precision. The Pneumatic Trainer Kits
are well tested on the stringent industry parameters by the team of experts which assures the
quality of the final product. Pneumatic systems are used in controlling train doors, automatic
production lines, mechanical clamps, etc Fig. 1.

Pneumatic Trainer provides different types of valves such as electronic and mechanical. This
helps to understand the user about manual and automatic process. There are wide range of
experiments provided on the trainer that can be performed.

Compressor :-

A compressor can compress air to the required pressures. It can convert the mechanical energy
from motors and engines into the potential energy in compressed air (Fig. 2). A single central
compressor can supply various pneumatic components with compressed air, which is transported
through pipes from the cylinder to the pneumatic components. Compressors can be divided into
two classes: reciprocator and rotary.

FRL (Filter Regulator Lubricator):-

As from the name it can be understood that it is the combination of three important individual
components (Filter, Regulator and Lubricator) which are necessary for a pneumatic circuit as
shown in figure.

The working of these three components were individually explain below along with the
figure.4.2

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(i) Filter – can remove impurities from compressed air before it is fed to the pneumatic
Components.
(ii) Pressure regulator – to stabilize the pressure and regulate the operation of pneumatic
Components
(iii) Lubricator – To provide lubrication for pneumatic components

The consumption of compressed air :-

Examples of components that consume compressed air include execution components
(cylinders), directional control valves and assistant valves.

a) Pneumatic circuit:-
Pneumatic control systems can be designed in the form of pneumatic circuits. A pneumatic
circuit is formed by various pneumatic components, such as cylinders, directional control valves,
flow control valves, etc. Pneumatic circuits have the following functions:
i) To control the injection and release of compressed air in the cylinders.
2. To use one valve to control another valve.

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Procedure:

The Connecting of the PLC Electric Circuit:-

1. Connect a contact named start assigned by a push button to
start the operation.
2. Connect the normally open contact related to sensor b0 and
normally close K2(so that when coil K2 activates it turns off
K1 to avoid signal opposing) to the coil K1 to be the input for
the solenoid EM1 responsible for extending cylinder
A.
3. Connect the normally open contact a1 with the normally open
contact K1 (because present step depends on the previous one)
to the coil K2 to activate the solenoid EM2 to cause cylinder A
to retract.
4. Connect the normally open contact a0 with the normally open
contact K2 (as before since the present step depends on the
previous one) to the coil K3 to activate the solenoid EM3 to
cause cylinder B to extend.
5. Connect the normally open contact b1 with the normally open
contact K3 (as before since the present step depends on the
previous one) with normally closed contact K5 (to avoid signal
opposing) to the coil K4 to activate the solenoid EM5 to
cause cylinder C to extend.
6. Connect the normally open contact c1 with the normally open
contact K4 to the coil K5 to activate the solenoid EM6 to
cause cylinder C to retract.
7. Connect the normally open contact c0 with the normally open
contact K5 to the coil K6 to activate the solenoid EM4 to
cause cylinder B to retract ,contact K6 will be connect as
normally closed with EM3 to turn it off to avoid signal
opposing.
8. A normally closed contact used to latch the signal will be
connect as OR case with each coil named as the name of that
coil
9. There will be coil K7 connect to it the last case which is b
retracting ( normally close contact b0 with normally close
contact k6) where coil K7 will be connect as normally close
contact with every coil to make sure that the work continues
until the stop button of the simulation is pressed. The coil will
be connected after the latch of each coil.
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10. A contact named Stop assigned by a push button will be
connected in OR way to the coil K7 that's if the push button is
pressed the contact Stop will be on turning on coil K7 lead to
turn off all the system even if the start button still pressed

Final Simulation:

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Result And Conclusion:-