• Title/Summary/Keyword: DCS(distributed control system)

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An Investigation of ESS(Environmental Stress Screening) Test of the DCS to be used for a thermal power plant. (발전소용 분산제어시스템의 스크리닝 시험에 관한 고찰)

  • Lee, J.H.;Ma, B.R.;Oh, Y.I.;Jung, M.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07b
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    • pp.871-873
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    • 1999
  • According to the reports about the failure mode analysis of modules and systems, It is said that there are many early failure of system. To remove latent defects which causes early failures like that, It is necessary that screening test is performed. ESS is often used fur screening electronic equipments, and is proposed by the most powerful tool for removing latent defects of electronic equipments. [1][2] In this report, the procedure of the environmental stress screening which uses the temperature cycling stress is proposed. It is considered about environmental conditions of distributed control system(DCS) to be tested, design specifications of the system, recommended conditions of relative IEC-STD and applied conditions of similar company. ESS test was applied at the DCS to be installed in power plant. As the results of analyzing discovered problems. It was found that almost latent defects of electronic control systems was discovered early.

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Analysis of a Communication Network for Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants and a Case Study

  • Lee, Sung-Woo;Gwak, Kwi?Yil
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.338-341
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a real-time communication method using a PICNET-NP(Plant Instrumentation and Control Network for Nuclear Power Plant) is proposed with an analysis of the control network requirements of DCS (Distributed Control System) in nuclear power plants. The method satisfies deadline in case of worst data traffics by considering aperiodic and periodic real-time data and others. In addition, the method was used to analyze the data characteristics of the DCS in existing nuclear power plant. The result shows that use of this method meets the response time requirement(100ms).

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Distributed Control of the Arago's Disc System with Gain Scheduler

  • Ibrahim, Lateef Onaadepo;Choi, Goon-Ho
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.25-30
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    • 2017
  • Arago's disk system consists of a speed controller of the DC motor (inner loop controller) and a position controller of the magnetic bar angle (main controller), which are implemented by the design of the PI and PID controller, respectively. First, we analyzed the nonlinear characteristics of the Arago disk system and found the operating point range of three locations as a result. In this paper, a gain scheduler method was applied to guarantee a constant control performance in the range of $0{\sim}130^{\circ}C$, and a structure to change the controller according to the control reference value based on the previously obtained operating points was experimentally implemented. The Distributed Control Systems (DCS) configuration using the Controller Area Network (CAN) was used to verify the proposed method by improving the operational efficiency of the entire experimental system. So, simplicity of the circuit and easy diagnosis were achieved through a single CAN bus communication.

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The Development of Boiler Fuel Control Algorithm and Distributed Control System for Coal-Fired Power Plant (석탄화력발전소 보일러 연료제어 알고리즘과 분산제어시스템의 개발)

  • Lim, Gun-Pyo;Lee, Heung-Ho
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.62 no.1
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    • pp.36-44
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    • 2013
  • This paper is written for the development and application of boiler fuel control algorithm and distributed control system of coal-fired power plant by the steps of design, coding, simulation test, site installation and site commissioning test. Fuel control algorithm has the upper algorithm and it is boiler master control algorithm that controls the fuel, feed water, air by generation output demand. Generation output demand by power load influences fuel control. Because fuel can not be supplied fast to the furnace of boiler, fuel control algorithm was designed adequately to control the steam temperature and to prevent the explosion of boiler. This control algorithms were coded to the control programs of distributed control systems which were developed domestically for the first time. Simulator for coal-fired power plant was used in the test step. After all of distributed control systems were connected to the simulator, the tests of the actual power plant were performed successfully. The reliability was obtained enough to be installed at the actual power plant and all of distributed control systems had been installed at power plant and all signals were connected mutually. Tests for reliability and safety of plant operation were completed successfully and power plant is being operated commercially. It is expected that the project result will contribute to the safe operation of domestic new and retrofit power plants, the self-reliance of coal-fired power plant control technique and overseas business for power plant.

PICNET Network Configurator for Distributed Control System

  • Kim, Dong-Sung;Lee, Jae-Young;Jun, Tae-Soo;Moon, Hong-Ju;Kwon, Wook-Hyun
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.100-103
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, a method for the efficient implementation of the PICNET network configurator for a distributed control system(DCS) is proposed. The network configurator is composed of the time parameter estimator and the period scheduler, the file generator. The main role of network configurator estimates time parameter, the pre-run time scheduling of the user input and make the period transmission table for operating the PICNET based distributed control system.

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A study on vulnerability analysis and incident response methodology based on the penetration test of the power plant's main control systems (발전소 주제어시스템 모의해킹을 통한 취약점 분석 및 침해사고 대응기법 연구)

  • Ko, Ho-Jun;Kim, Huy-Kang
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.295-310
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    • 2014
  • DCS (Distributed Control System), the main control system of power plants, is an automated system for enhancing operational efficiency by monitoring, tuning and real-time operation. DCS is becoming more intelligent and open systems as Information technology are evolving. In addition, there are a large amount of investment to enable proactive facility management, maintenance and risk management through the predictive diagnostics. However, new upcoming weaponized malware, such as Stuxnet designed for disrupting industrial control system(ICS), become new threat to the main control system of the power plant. Even though these systems are not connected with any other outside network. The main control systems used in the power plant usually have been used for more than 10 years. Also, this system requires the extremely high availability (rapid recovery and low failure frequency). Therefore, installing updates including security patches is not easy. Even more, in some cases, installing security updates can break the warranty by the vendor's policy. If DCS is exposed a potential vulnerability, serious concerns are to be expected. In this paper, we conduct the penetration test by using NESSUS, a general-purpose vulnerability scanner under the simulated environment configured with the Ovation version 1.5. From this result, we suggest a log analysis method to detect the security infringement and react the incident effectively.

Development of fault diagnosis fuzzy expert system for advanced control system (고급 분산 제어 시스템을 위한 고장 진단 퍼지 전문가 시스템의 개발)

  • 변승현;박세화;허윤기;서창준;이재혁;김병국;박동조;변증남
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.959-964
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    • 1993
  • We developed fault diagnosis fuzzy expert system for ACS(Advanced Control System). ACS is a DCS(Distributed Control System) with advanced control algorithm fault tolerance capabilities, fault diagnosis functions, and so on. Fuzzy expert system developed for an ACS in this paper gives an operator alarm signal depending on the state of process value and manipulated value, and the cause of alarm in real time. Simple experiment result with several rules for the-fault-diagnosis of drum level loop in Seoul-Power-Plant.

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Consideration on the Effect of Setpoint AGC Command and Related AGC Logic in DCS (설정점 제어방식의 AGC 지령 및 발전소 DCS의 관련로직 변경방안)

  • Jeon, Dong-Hoon;Kwon, Soon-Man;Lee, Hyo-Sang;Shin, Joong-Seon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2001.07a
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    • pp.395-397
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    • 2001
  • A new automatic generation control (AGC) signal transmission format will be adopted in the new energy management system (EMS) that KEPCO is planning to install for managing and operating the power system efficiently under the deregulation environment. Therefore, it is necessary for the power plants to make the AGC processing logic fit the new AGC signal flow format. In this work, we compare the new signal transmission scheme with the conventional one in view of its effect to the signal flow in the distributed control systems (DCS) that ale equipped in power plants to handle AGC operation. Then we propose a basic logic configuration for DCS that can be used with the new signal format. In the design of the configuration, some practical issues that should be discussed for the proper operation of the plants are considered.

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Development of GPC algorithm for the advanced cotnrol system (고급분산 제어 시스템을 위한 일반형 예측 제어 알고리즘의 개발)

  • 김성우;박세화;김병국;변증남
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1993.10a
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    • pp.965-969
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    • 1993
  • In this paper, the GPC algorithm is developed for ACS(advanced control system). ACS equals to DCS(distributed control system) with some advanced control algorithm, for example, fuzzy logic controller, autotuning. By its embedded structural control language, which uses simple function codes corresponding to each function blocks, it is possible to construct multiloop controller. The developed GPC function code is divided by RLS (recursive least square) parameter estimator and GPC controller. Simulation result show the availability of GPC function code using the control language.

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Water Treatment Process based on LonWorks System (수처리 공정상의 개방형 네트워크(LonWorks) 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, S.H.;Kim, I.N.;Kwak, J.K.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2003.07d
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    • pp.2254-2258
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    • 2003
  • In recent years, the case to install small water treatment facility to every local area has increased. A key issue in the successful implementation of the control systems for the water treatment plants is the choice of control architecture. Within the framework of distributed control system(DCS), this paper presents a new development of intelligent control module and its novel application to open control architecture for water treatment plants. This control system so called NCS(Network Based Control System) with standard networks system with LonTalks protocol of ANSI/EIA 709.1, regulatory control function and information dispatch function has suitable functionality to operate these distributed water treatment facility effectively. This paper describes the case where NCS is applied for the filters system in water treatment facility of Heong Sung area.

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