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SUPCON Automation Solution
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Preface
In recent years, each industrial has got a very fast development, and the demand for electrical
power is got bigger and bigger. With the pressure of global energy sources crisis and environment
pollution, more and more high requirements are to the automatic control of firepower unit. At present,
the automation system of the power plant has been developing from the unit level, power generator
unit control level to system level and integration level. The electric power industry not only requires
realizing the production automation of the power plant, but to realize the integration of automation
control and management for the full production process. The total solution of SUPCON includes the
following four parts:
DCS control scheme for the production process of power plant ?Control scheme for the system
junction of the auxiliary devices in the power plant
Plant level real time data monitoring information SIS system
Management scheme for the plant level management information MIS system

Production process for firepower plant

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As for the power units, boiler, steam turbine and generator are the three units, and their process
control has the following two characteristics:

Participating in the frequency regulation and load regulation of the network

For the generating capacity of the firepower plant is controlled by the network, and the electrical
energy can not be stored, when the load changing, the generator unit are requested to real time
responding the command from the network , and immediately participate in the load regulation
(generating capacity peak value) and frequency regulation (power supplying frequency).

More complicated multivariable coupling

For the firepower unit, any one input variable (e.g. the changing of pulverized coal) of the main
equipments will not only have influence on the changing of other output variables of the body
equipment (this is called coupling in control theory), and will also have influence on the changing of
output variables of other relative main equipments e.g. steam turbine, generator and other auxiliary
equipments. That is to say, when considering the boiler control, the control of steam turbine and
generator shall be considered synchronously, and vice versa. This makes the control of the full
generator units more complicated.

DCS system for the power plant

SUPCON DCS control total solution for power plant production process includes the following
systems:
Data acquisition and data processing
MCS analog signal control system
SCS sequence control system
FSSS-furnace safeguard supervisory system
ETS-steam turbine emergency trip protection system
DEH steam turbine Digital Electrical Hydraulic control system
ECS electricity control system

1 DAS Data Acquisition System

The function of DAS is to directly acquire data from the process objects through the I/O modules,
and can also acquire and deal with the signals which are relative with the units from the other
subsystems e.g. MCS, SCS and etc. The monitoring and operation of the process can be executed
on the operator station. The functions of DAS mainly include:
Record and print for shift form, on-duty form, daily form, monthly form and alarm form
Analog menu displaying, real-time data displaying, trending curve displaying
History data archiving, history trending recording, and event sequence recording (SOE)
Operation state monitoring and fault diagnosis for hardware

Data display menu

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Flowchart menu

Trending graphics

Fault diagnosis graphics

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2 MCS Modulate Control System

The control functions of MCS mainly include:

Coordination Control
Automatically adjust fuel
Automatically adjust forced draft
Automatically adjust furnace negative pressure
Automatically adjust boiler water level
Automatically adjust superheated steam temperature
Automatically adjust reheat steam temperature
Automatically adjust main steam pressure
Automatically adjust milling system
Condenser hot well level control
Deaerator level control
Deaerator pressure control

3 SCS Sequence Control System

The control functions of SCS mainly include:
Pulverizer, coal feeder, mill exhauster automatically start/stop sequence control
and interlock protection
Forced draft fan, induced draft fan, air preheater automatically start/stop sequence
control and interlock protection
Feed-water pump automatically start/stop sequence control
Condensation water pump automatically start/stop sequence control
Circulating pump automatically start/stop sequence control
Water jetting pump automatically start/stop sequence control
Speed governing oil pump automatically start/stop sequence control
Generator cooling water pump automatically start/stop sequence control
AC/DC lubrication oil pump automatically start/stop sequence control
High/low pressure heater steam valve, draining valve automatically start/stop
sequence control

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4 FSSS Furnace Safeguard Supervisory System

The functions of FSSS mainly include:

Clean control before ignition and after furnace shutdown
Fuel oil leakage testing
Flame detection function
Boiler ignition and ignitors control
Pulverized coal burner control
Main fuel trip (MFT)
Fuel oil trip (OFT)

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5 ETS Emergency Trip System

When something emergency has happened in the steam turbine, the ETS system will automatically
emergency trip to make it shutdown, and to guarantee the safety of personnel.
The condition for ETS trip: (once one of the following situations happens, and the trip command will
be sent out.)
Large libration of steam turbine bearing brass
Large axial displacement
Large differential expansion
High thrust bearing temperature
High bearing oil back temperature
Low lubrication pressure
Low condenser vacuum
High extraction pressure
Steam turbine overspeed
MFT
Generator-transformer unit protection
Manual emergency shutdown

6 DEH Digital Electrical Hydraulic

The basic control function of DEH system is to control the rotate speed and load of steam turbine.
The low pressure turbine oil DEH shall be adopted to small-scale steam turbine to realize pure
electric adjusting control. It can operate safely and economically under the following operation
modes: boiler follow, steam turbine follow, coordinated control, variable press (sliding press)
operation, constant pressure operation, manual mode. The main control functions of DEH system
include:
Speed-up control
Rotate speed and load control
Thermal stress calculating and sequence control for start and stop
Overspeed limitation and protection
Remote control latched, open the door of main steam, emergency shutoff
All kinds of testing function

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7 ECS Electricity Control System

ECS is one part of DCS system, the main supervision and control scope includes: generator,
transformer, high/low voltage power supply system, UPS, DC system, standby power supply and
auxiliary systems related to the generator set.
Generator excitation regulation system monitoring
Generator automatic accurate synchronization monitoring
Generator circuit breaker monitoring
Main transformer system monitoring
Plant power usage system monitoring

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Control scheme for the system interconnection

of auxiliary equipments in the power plant

Control systems for auxiliary equipments in the power plant mainly include:
Coal conveying equipment control system
Chemical water treatment equipment control system
Industrial water control system
Waste water treatment control system
Electric dust removal control system
Ash handling and ash residue handling control system
Fire protection pump control system
Air compressor control system

For the auxiliary equipment control systems of the power plant are distributed widely, and are always
independent with one another. For a consideration of the management of the full plant, the above
mentioned control systems shall be interconnected and controlled in the upper level.
SUPCON DCS have standardized hardware and software interface, and is easy to realize the
interconnection with the advanced field bus equipments, the third party control systems, logic
controllers and etc., and with the remote medium to realize the control of remote operating, and to
get the purpose of interconnecting control for the auxiliary equipment control systems of the plant.

Chemical water treatment control menu of one plant

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Flue gas dedust control menu of one plant

Ash handling and ash residue handling control menu of one plant

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Function of plant level real-time data information SIS system

1. The main function of SIS system
Production process information supervising, calculating and analyzing
Plant level and unit performance calculation analyzing and operation instructing
Operation dispatching and unit load optimization assignment
Equipment condition supervising and fault diagnosing
Unit and equipment life management
2. The composition of SIS system
SIS system offer abundant real time data platform:
Interface with each kinds of control system
Through the interface to acquire the data and deposit it in the real-time or history database
Provide a powerful tool to manage the database
Establish the process menu, and browse the information in the database with the type of menu
Analyze the information in the database with the type of trend
Make all kinds of report form and record

The key for finishing SIS system function is to have a real time/history database and a set of matured
and excellent application software. Take the real time monitoring information system of SUPCON as
example; the following optimized application software package has been developed in this system:
Plant level production process real time running supervising
Unit operation performance calculating and analyzing
Operating instruction for performance optimization
Resource expense analyzing for unit operation ? Fault diagnosing for unit operation
Plant level load optimized distribution
Unit life evaluating
Equipment condition examining and calculation analyzing
The above mentioned software package include optimization control software, performance
calculating software, life management software, fault diagnosing software and maintenance
management software of year 2000 design principle of power plant instruments and control (I&C)
system which is put forward by Electric Power Planning and Designing Institute. And it is the
combination of a series of power plant production process optimization and management software.

Function of plant level management information system (MIS)

With the continuously development of computer technology, network technology, communication
technology, and the requirements of modern enterprise system and management, to share enter-
prise’s information resource, provide the best services for production, operating, management,
timely and effectively offer reliable decision basis for enterprise’s leader level has became neces-
sary. SUPCON combines automatic control system configuration and management information
system MIS according to the requirement of the power plant, and having flexible function
design. The design content includes: general structure frame, professional subsystem design,
database system design, computer network system design etc. The main functions are as following,
but not limit to the following:
1 Planning and budget
Enterprise planning
Capital construction plan
Production planning
Production plan appraisal
Power consumption and load forecasting
Accomplishment analyzing for production plan
Planning for sales
Design and construction plan management

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2 Financial management
Earmarked fund management
Fixed capital management
Working capital management
Construction contract management
Power charge management
3 Production safety management
Power generation operation management
Power generation examination and maintenance management
Reliability stat.
Reducing coal-fired consumption management
Technical supervision management
Technical reconstruction project management
Safety stat.
Safety precautions setting up
Safety equipment project reviewing and evaluating
Person accident management
Device accident management
Boiler and pressure vessel supervision
Maintenance equipments management
4 Stat.
Power output stat.
Load monitoring devices stat.
Reactive compensation devices stat.
Fuel economy analyzing
5 Warehouse management
Fuel ordering
Supervision for the usage of labor protection
Spare parts management
6 Human resource management
Employee training appraisal
Planning for the employee’s education and training
Archives management
Health care management

Conclusion
SUPCON was established in 1993, based upon the solid scientific research foundation of the
National Industrial Automation Engineering Research Center, the National Key Laboratory of
Industrial Control Technology and the Institute of Advanced Process Control of Zhejiang University,
SUPCON has well blended the multi-disciplinary advantage of Zhejiang University with its own
scientific research expertise, SUPCON not only have strong technical strength in R&D and produc-
tion of industrial automation product, also is an outstanding supplier of industrial automation
software. SUPCON will dedicate itself to provide the best total solution to power industry to realize
the integration of management and control.

SUPCON GROUP CO.,LTD.

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