UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

(YATANARPON CYBER CITY)

FACULTY OF PRECISION
ENGINEERING

“Design And Implementation Of Water Level Controlling System

Using PID With PLC”

Mg Kaung Thant Minn

6PrE-37

February 2020
Yatanarpon Cyber City, Pyin Oo Lwin
Faculty of Precision Engineering Project Proposal

Design And Implementation Of Water Level Controlling System Using

PID With PLC

Abstract difference between the actual height and the

This thesis focus on the design and implementation desired height. When the difference is zero
of a PLC-based water level control system. The or nearly zero, the water level successfully
objective of the water level control system is to tracks the desired reference signal.
control the water level of the tank, and track the
desired reference water level. This is a typical
control system in the process industry.
3. Design Approach/Methodology

1. Introduction
Over the course of the past years, an
automatic process control has emerged from
intuitive especially in industry. With a rapid
increasing need of industrial process control,
an efficient and effective method is needed.
Technological revolutions hit the industrial
world in 1960s, when the development of the
first programmable logic controller (PLC) is
explored. A basic problem in the design of a
PLC based process control system is
4. Project Outcomes
presented. Therefore, designing a PLC based
In this project, the PLC based level control
level control system attracts great interests in
system is used to maintain the water level at
learning and understanding PLC based
a constant height. The simulation and
industrial control.
experimental results show that the PLC
contributes an accurate and stable
performance. In programming PLC, a PID
2. Thesis Scope
control algorithm is used. By using PID
In this thesis, the focus is on the PLC system
control algorithm, we get better results on
design and implementation. A control valve,
both experimental tests and the simulation.
a pressure sensor and a flowrate indicator
As results showing, the PLC based level
will be used to measure states of the system.
control system is stable and accurate.
Furthermore, a water tank and some pipes
will be designed for storing and draining
5. Conclusion
water. To control the water level of the water
Performance evaluation of the system indicated
tank accurately, it is important to monitor the
that it can regulate water level within a specified
system output, and compare the
range, an indication that it can be applied for
measurements with desired output. A PID
reducing energy and material losses in the
control algorithm is used to eliminate the
process industry, small and medium scale
difference between the actual output and
enterprises as well as in farms, homes etc, where
desired output. The control input is
water and other ionic chemicals are usually
calculated by the PLC program, and the
stored in overhead tanks.
control valve takes its action to decrease the
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References

1. F. Didactic, “Programmable Logic

Controllers Basic Level,” 2002.
2. W. Bolton, Programmable logic
controllers. Newnes, 2015.
3. M. Sreejeth and S. Chouhan, “PLC based
automated liquid mixing and bottle
filling system”
4. D. Engin and M. Engin, “Auto-tuning of
PID parameters with programmable logic
controller”