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Applications of SCADA

SCADA systems are used in a wide range of industries for monitoring and control. Some key applications of SCADA include waste water treatment, electrical power distribution, and power generation. SCADA is used to automate and monitor the various stages of water treatment, distribute power by controlling substations and feeders, and control operations in thermal power plants like monitoring boilers and turbines and in wind farms by controlling the turbines. SCADA is also widely used in industrial applications like manufacturing and process industries to increase production rates and quality while reducing costs.

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Applications of SCADA

SCADA systems are used in a wide range of industries for monitoring and control. Some key applications of SCADA include waste water treatment, electrical power distribution, and power generation. SCADA is used to automate and monitor the various stages of water treatment, distribute power by controlling substations and feeders, and control operations in thermal power plants like monitoring boilers and turbines and in wind farms by controlling the turbines. SCADA is also widely used in industrial applications like manufacturing and process industries to increase production rates and quality while reducing costs.

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Applications of SCADA

The characteristics such as flexibility, reliability and scalability of


SCADA have made its extensive use in automating complex
systems.

There are numerous real-world applications where SCADA


already been successful in delivering monitoring and control
solutions over a wide range of industries, ranging from energy
production to agricultural systems. Some of these applications are
given below.

Applications of SCADA

1. Waste Water Treatment


❖ The waste water treatment involves in filtering the raw water
from wells or surface and to discharge the clean water into
the distribution system. The processing areas in the water
treatment process include low lift or raw water station, pre-
treatment, filtration, high lift or treated water station and
chemical injection systems.
❖ Here, each stage is employed with PLCs as RTUs along with
sensors and actuators for field level monitoring and control
of operations. SCADA system enables the central monitoring
thorough HMI workstations by gathering data via
communication network from various stages of water
treatment.
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2. Electrical Power Distribution System


❖ SCADA system automates the electrical distribution tasks
with the use of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) as RTUs.
SCADA supervises the entire distribution system so as to
reduce the duration of outages and for an optimum
operation. The functions of SCADA in power distribution
system include substation control, feeder control and end
user load control.
❖ RTUs/ IEDs in a substation, feeder, or end use installations
gather the field data, including status of switches,
transformers, circuit breakers, fault information, energy
consumption and billing.
❖ At the central monitoring side, MTU receives the data from
RTUs, displays it on HMIs, provides the data trending and
logging. It also maintains the desired level of currents,
voltages, and power factor and correspondingly generates
the alarms and sends back control signals to remote
stations.

3. Power Generating Stations


❖ In thermal power plants, various equipments are distributed
over plant area, which all are connected with SCADA
systems. The SCADA enables monitoring and control of
numerous boilers, turbines and pumps.
❖ SCADA automates and supervises the operations of the
plant, including pulverizing of coal, control of steam flow,
turbine start/stop status, water control into the boiler, power
distribution and control.
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❖ In case of wind power plants, SCADA provides the real time


visibility of the remote plant and facilitates the control of plant
remotely and centrally. In this, SCADA controls the wind
turbines during start-up, power production, shutdown and
stopped (faulty) cases. Also, it provides online data,
histories, alarms and the HMI.

4. Industrial Control
❖ SCADA usage is often found in many industrial applications
including manufacturing industries (steel plants), process
industries, oil and gas industries, food processing, and so
on.
❖ SCADA integration into the industries processes results
higher production rates, increases quality of products and
provides the cost-effective operation. In these industries
PLCs plays a major role in dealing with field parameters and
to transfer them to the central controlling station.

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