The aim of this thesis is to describe and present a project of reconstructing the boiler room in a Slovenian coating company. The investor decided to renovate the entire boiler room due to wear off and its age. The renovation included replacement of a large number of hardware elements, electrical installation, control system and updates on the SCADA system. On this project I worked for a company that was a subcontractor of the reconstruction of the boiler room. My assignment was to develop an application software for system control, installation of the control unit and HMI panel, and to perform testing before the launch of the system. Below I will present the implementation of the objectives on the project, namely programming of the PLC controller, the production of the SCADA control system and the development of the HMI panel program.
In the first part of the thesis, I describe various parts of the system, including description of elements of automated system, communication protocols, and the software and hardware used in execution of the project.
The second part presents the development of automation of the boiler room. I have described the processes that are controlled by the Siemens S7-1500 controller and operate in the automatic mode, and method of calculation of the cumulative of individual analog measurements for certain time periods. Furthermore, production of the SCADA control system, preparation of the control system on the operator panel and method of testing the system's suitability before launching, are described.
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