With the help of Adam-5510 PC-based programmable controllers, Beijing's wastewater treatment plant has successfully built a reliable wastewater process control system. This has provided it with a saving over using a traditional PLC solution.
System architecture of Beijing water treatment plant
In the past, because of plentiful labour and relaxed environmental restrictions, the quality of wastewater treatment and the output of clear water at Beijing's treatment plant were not closely monitored. Recently, local government has required the plant manager to solve these quality problems and reduce staffing levels.
Process
The process of wastewater treatment involved at the plant has three principal steps:
* Filter out the particulates in the wastewater pumping room and de-sanding pool.
* Add chemical to the water in the four CAS (carbon absorption system) pools.
* Drain the intermediate water into the purification pool for the final refining process.
Key requirements
The key requirements for the replacement system were that it should:
* Integrate widespread data from the different pools and respond to the control centre reliably and quickly.
* Collect and process the data in a timely and accurate manner.
* Operate with reduced staff levels.
System description
Advantech Beijing developed a PC-based process control system using Adam-5510 controllers to solve the plant's need. There are six PC-based Adam-5510 programmable controllers installed at the CAS pools, de-sanding pools and purification pools. These monitor and control the field devices. The plant equipment status is shown on a field display and simultaneously fed back to the control centre through an RS-485 network. The system also uses Adam-5060 6-channel relay output modules, Adam-5051 16-channel DI modules for facilities monitoring and Adam-5017 8-channel AI modules for flow rate and volume monitoring.
At the de-sanding pool the Adam-5510 handles pump on/off control, gate open/close control, and monitoring of input flow rate, water level and related equipment's on/off and alarm outputs.
In the CAS pools the Adam-5510 responds to commands from field stations or the control centre to control the four sub-steps in each CAS reaction. One important function is to detect fully automatic or semi-automatic signals and respond promptly with control logic.
At the purification pool, 10 purification devices are monitored and controlled by the programmable controllers. The control processes are similar to those used in the CAS pools and also feature automatic and semi-automatic modes.
The benefits that the Adam controllers provide in this data acquisition and control system are:
* Flexibility of communications.
* Data memory storage capacity.
* Ease of programming with the C language.
* A distributed data acquisition system architecture.
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