Wastewater Treatment Plant - SCADA System Design, Programming and Start-up
In 2005, AMR installed a SCADA system for a large waste water treatment plant located in eastern Tennessee. The scope of the project included the automation of the plant's influent, treatment phases, and effluent. Listed below are several highlights and parameters of the project, the major equipment that was automated and the major equipment and software AMR utilized in implementing the system.
Project Parameters and Highlights:
- Complete SCADA system integration utilizing RF wireless communications
- HMI, SLC, Historian and PanelView programming
- Design, fabricate, install and start-up control panels
- Calibrate and start-up instrumentation
- On-site training
- Documentation package of automation system
AMR-Provided Major Equipment and Software:
- Allen-Bradley® SLC 5/05 Ethernet Processors
- Rockwell Software® RSView32 HMI Software
- Rockwell Software® RSBizware Historian SQL Data Historian/Reporting Software
- Allen-Bradley® PanelView Plus Local Operator Interfaces
- Data-Linc® 2.4Ghz Wireless Ethernet Communication system
- N-Tron® Ethernet Switches
- Allen-Bradley® 1336, PowerFlex700 and PowerFlex40 Variable Frequency Drives
- Endress & Hauser® Magnetic Flowmeters, Dissolved Oxygen Transmitters and Submersible D/P Level Transmitters
- Auma® Electric Valve Positioners
- K-Tek® Laser Level Transmitters
Plant's Major Automated Equipment:
- Six Pump wet well pumping station with alternation and level control
- Pump Station includes 2 pumps with variable frequency drives and remaining pumps with solid state starters
- DO control of Aeration Basins utilizing three blowers with modulating inlet valves
- Digestor mixing pump and recirculation pump controls
- Digestor gas flow monitoring
- Digestor floating cover elevation monitoring
- Sludge Thickener control
- RAS/WAS flow control
- Intermediate Return Basin level and pump control
