Automating the stand of the level and temperature control system of the tank farms

Abstract

The aim of the work is to automate the stand that simulates the technological equipment of oil tank farms, including the hydraulic part and automation tools for controlling and monitoring, using the necessary hardware and software, to study the operation of protection and blocking algorithms, alarms and automatic control in accordance with industry regulations and requirements for microprocessor equipment control systems at hazardous production facilities. The objective is to create a modern level and temperature control system. The research uses the method of system analysis, the theory of automatic control, structural solutions of human-machine systems designed to automate production and intelligent support of control processes and the necessary data processing in organizational, technological and distributed control systems. As a result of the study a block diagram of the stand is developed based on the well-known three-level model of a typical automated process control system for monitoring the level and temperature of the tank farm. The novelty of the work lies in building a model of an automated control system for a tank farm with a distributed structure to study its operation. The findings of the research state that the proposed automated control system of the level and temperature monitoring system stand is a model of a real tank farm and implements all the basic functions associated with automating technological and control operations, which allows studying its work in the laboratory. It fully fits into the terms of designing modern automated process control systems, which makes it a good subject for studying as part of advanced training courses for students of educational institutions in the direction of “Automated control systems for oil pipeline transport”.