In order to better illustrate the necessary functions and features of this application, a rainwater retention basin is assumed as example. Measures for efficient maintenance should be taken for optimizing plant availability and efficiency. Alarm messages for instance in case of malfunction of the lock should be sent to the service personnel as an SMS message via this GSM modem. Following use cases are considered .
Trang 1Load management with S7-1200 and SENTRON PAC3200
Problem
Power utilities charge industrial electricity customers not only for the active energy consumed (in kWh), but they also make the kilowatthour rate dependent on a power limit (in kW) The power limit
is defined as the average of the total electric power imported over a defined measuring period If this power limit specified by the power utility is exceeded, a higher kWh price will be charged for the entire accounting period (e.g., 1 month or 1 year, depending on the terms of the contract) To avoid this, large-scale electricity customers temporarily switch off dispensable loads Now the task in this application is as follows :
• Relative to the start of the respective measuring period, the total average power demand of all loads is to be permanently determined to forecast it for the end of the measuring period
If it is expected that the power limit will be exceeded, loads are to be temporarily switched off according to a priority list
• The respective total average power demands at the end of the measuring periods are to be logged over at least the accounting period to furnish proof to the power utility
Solution
For load control a SIMATIC CPU S7-1200 is used SENTRON PAC3200 multi-function measuring instruments are used to measure the power or electrical energy of the loads As the HMI a KTP600 operator panel is used
The measured data at the power infeed point necessary for load control is acquired individually for each load by the SENTRON PAC3200 multi-function measuring instruments and added up in the PLC The SENTRON PAC3200 devices transmit the data to the controller via "MODBUS on TCP" The switching-off of loads that is required when there is an imminent exceeding of the power limit is performed using the digital output of the relevant SENTRON PAC3200 device The SENTRON PAC3200 devices receive the associated switching commands from the PLC via MODBUS communication
Figure 01
Trang 2The data logging is carried out with the S7-1200 data log function At the end of the measuring period, the total average power demand relative to the measuring period is written to a csv-file in the load memory resp to the memory card Via the S7-1200 webserver you have access to the csv-file at any time
Figure 02
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Load Management with S7-1200 and SENTRON PAC3200
LoadManagement_V 1_0_en.pdf
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STEP 7 project (SIMATIC STEP 7 BASIC V11 SP2,
SIMATIC WINCC BASIC V11 SP2) LoadManagement_V
1_0.zip
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Trang 3Hardware platform: SENTRON, SIMATIC S7-1200
Software: STEP 7 since V11
Entry contents: Application Examples
Date:
2012-05-24