SOLUTIONS PROFILE

ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL

APPLICATION EXAMPLES
Water distribution modeling Water chlorination control Water chloramination modeling and control pH control ORP control Dissolved oxygen control Energy cost optimization Predictive maintenance Pumping control and optimization Temperature control Composition control Rockwell Automation Advanced Process Control (APC) group helps clients like you obtain additional process knowledge, understand interactions between process variables, explain non-linear relationships and handle multi-parameter systems. APC tools and methodologies help maximize your process capacity, product quality, save on energy and at the same time reduce process variations and interventions. The APC technologies include model predictive control, dynamic simulation and modeling, real-time optimization and fuzzy logic control. These solutions are targeted at reducing your overall cost, monitoring and managing utility costs, increasing production throughput and productivity, enhancing preventive maintenance, improving process control and operational performance. The Rockwell Automation APC team provides you with a solution based on your major objectives and areas of focus. Often times, the solution turns out to be the result of the automation leaders experience, know-how and understanding, and also an interactive audit of your specific process operation. Ultimately, the control technology that is applied is customized so that your operational and quality benefits reap a rapid return on investment.

SOLUTIONS FOR THE WATER AND WASTEWATER INDUSTRY

ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL APPLICATIONS IN THE WATER INDUSTRY

One of the areas in which Rockwell Automation provides APC services to enhance process performance is in the water and waste water treatment industry. The APC group specialties are in the areas of water treatment improvement, water supply and distribution, water quality management, energy consumption reduction, and operator training. The solutions applied are carefully chosen, tailored to provide a best fit, and proven to maximize benefits.

CHLORAMINATION MODELING AND CONTROL

The goal of this application is to improve your process of treating drinking water with chlorine and ammonia, using an appropriate volume of chemicals to achieve the control objectives for all possible water treatment conditions. The application contains two parts: 1. Chloramination process modeling to predict concentrations of total and free chlorine, total and free ammonia and chloramines. 2. Control of chlorine and ammonia injection to satisfy the goals of treatment in real time reaching desired concentrations of chemicals in drinking water.

MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK SIMULATION

This high fidelity simulation system, using Bond Graph modeling techniques and first principle modeling, simulates the operation of pumps, valves, and turbines predicts flow rate, pump station suction Contact Rockwell Automation to learn how our advanced process and discharge pressure, regulation station high/low pressure, control solutions can help improve performance of your water and tank/reservoir levels, pipeline hydraulics and local water demand. In wastewater treatment plants. the simulation system, the initial calibration of model parameters is based on water system design parameters. However, for more precise calibration, hydraulic and electrical data, recorded over extended period of time, is used. The simulator is composed of individual components and objects including pump and regulator stations, turbines, pipelines, tanks, valves, and controllers. The simulator, when operated in real-time, provides you with a virtual measurement of thousands of process variables. Off-line simulation uses captured, or predefined, initial process conditions. The software allows simulation of normal operation scenarios: distribution system reactions to pump start/stop, valve open/close, tank/reservoir out of service, water demand changes, or water quality management. For operator training, simulation of malfunction scenarios such as instant pressure changes, water leak, fire, or other instant water demand changes is also possible.

Water distribution network topology

Modular simulation software architecture follows the water distribution network topology Tank level trend data from one week of operation, yellow - actual operation, purple - simulated tank level, maximum error of simulation is 5%.

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Publication EMSE00-BR011A-EN-E September 2006

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