DCS CONTROLLERS

Power Plant Process Hazards

• Complex and continuous running process
• Multiple locations and centralized control
• Process with High temperature and pressure steam, hazard to life,
equipment and environment
• Safe and reliable operation
• Economic and efficient operation
• Less polution or environment friendly
EVOLUTION OF DDCMIS

• ORIGINALLY MEASUREMENT WERE MOST IMPORTANT (MEASUREMENT + HUMAN REACTION

+ MANUAL CONTROL)

• OPEN LOOP CONTROL (HARDWIRED-Relay Based )

• OPEN LOOP CONTROL (HARDWIRED-Solid SATE )

• CLOSED LOOP CONTROLS (HARDWIRED-Analog SYSTEM )

• COMPUTERISED DAS

• INTEGRATED DDCMIS

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DDCMIS ARCHITECTURE OF ALSTOM
Functions of DDCMIS
• Operator interface of process DATA and control thorugh graphics and HMI
• Historical Storage of plant data
• Trends live and historical
• Performance Calculations
- Heat rate of Boiler , Turbine , Unit etc.
• Operator Guidance
• Diagnostics: SYSTEM / PROCESS
• Periodic Logs, Alarms, charts, SOE
• Programming of system
• Access control

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 MAJOR COMPONENTS OF DDCMIS

• CONTROL SYSTEM

• MAN-MACHINE INFORMATION AND PLANT INFORMATION

SYSTEM (MMIPIS)

• REDUNDANT DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (DCS)

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 MAJOR COMPONENTS OF DDCMIS

• SEQUENCE OF EVENT (SOE ) AND ANNUNCIATION SYSTEM

FUNCTIONS

• SYSTEM PROGRAMMING FACILITY

a) TUNING & CONFIGURATION FOR CONTROL SYSTEM
b) MODIFICATION & PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT FOR MMIPIS

• MASTER & SLAVE CLOCK SYSTEM

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CONTROLLERS
• Each controller unit is connected to a set of I/O cards through Bus
• Each node contains 2 CPUs.
• One is primary other one is secondary.
• Both Primary and Secondary are connected through a High Speed Link.
• Program in Controller is divided into 3 parts
• Firm Ware
• Operating System
• User Defined Configuration
• Any configuration change has to be stored in both the controllers.
• Controller will send the data to Servers via AF100 Bus

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