Title
Automatic control of motors through Simocode pro, and its effect on the performance of the process of filling and dispensing of chemical inputs
Date Issued
01 July 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Chamorro-Atalaya O.
Dávila-Ignacio C.
Ortega-Galicio O.
Publisher(s)
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
Abstract
This article aims to describe the design of an automatic control system for the automated management of motor drives through Simocode pro; and determine the effect from the quantitative point of view on the performance of the filling and dispatch process of chemical inputs from the perspective of dispatch time and the amount of input spilled in the tank filling stage. For this, the programming of the programmable logic controller was carried out using the simatic step 7 software, then the distributed control system (DCS Siemens S410) was programmed, using the PCS7 V8.1 software, where the control logic and simocode pro integration is carried out through the profibus protocol, which is monitored from an human-machine interface (HMI) interface. Once the control system was implemented, it was possible to reduce the operating time from 60 minutes on average to 35 minutes, which reflects an improvement of 41.66%; this in turn generates an increase in the number of tank filling by 62.84%. Likewise, it is possible to reduce the amount of chemical inputs spilled in the filling stage; this improvement represents 88.60%.
Start page
179
End page
187
Volume
23
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería mecánica
Ingeniería de procesos
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85109994019
Source
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ISSN of the container
25024752
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus