Material Handling - Fuel Handling

Boiler: INPLANT COAL HANDLING The In-Plant coal handling system deals with feeding of coal from live storage to the furnace. It includes various equipment's for transfer of coal like belt conveyor, screw conveyor etc. & the equipment needed to weigh the quantity of coal for feed

Case Study Material Handling - Fuel Handling
Applicable Industry Fuel Handling
Use Case Boiler Operation
Interfaces PLC, SCADA System, Sensor, field instruments with cabling
Customer Leading Captive Energy Sectors
Data Exchanged Data logging in Excel format
Technology PLC with SCADA
System PLC Automation system
Challenges:
  • old relay base control panel
  • Frequent shutdown due to failure of components
  • Long repair cycle becouse of old tech instrumentation
  • Difficult to expansion
  • Requires a lot of switchboard space
  • Installation is very labor intensive
  • Trouble shooting is extremely difficult
  • Modifications to the control functionality are complicated and seriously tedious.
Solution:

We as VACPL provided efficient and end to end solution of PLC based control panel and which is helping customer in below ways. installation time is greatly reduced with PLC control systems due to the reduced amount of hard wiring required. In other words, we only need to hard wire the input and output devices. The control logic is implemented using software not hard wired relays.

Modifications to the control logic can easily be done using software to modify the ladder logic program rather than hardware and wiring modifications that would normally be the case with relay logic control. The same PLC can be used for a wide range of control system applications.

Impact 1
  • Batch time reduced by 15%, hence increase in productivity.
Impact 2
  • Efficiency improvement.
  • Down time reduction.
  • Proactive maintenance.
  • Cost reduction of overall maintenance.