Feasibility study on SCADA system for gas distribution network and its prototype development

Natural gas distribution systems play a fundamental role in delivering a primary energy resource toward industrial, tertiary and residential building. These networks assume today an increasing relevance due to growing energy demand and tighter environmental constrains, but they are still operated an

Project Title

Feasibility study on SCADA system for gas distribution network and its prototype development

Project Area of Specialization

Wearables and Implantable

Project Summary

Natural gas distribution systems play a fundamental role in delivering a primary energy resource toward industrial, tertiary and residential building. These networks assume today an increasing relevance due to growing energy demand and tighter environmental constrains, but they are still operated and managed according to old practices, without any smartness given by information and communication technologies.

In this project, a prototypal monitoring and controlling systems(SCADA) has been implemented on the natural gas network. Results prove that such an application can considerably upgrade the overall reliability and efficiency of the gas distribution process, also assuring the possibility of very fast interventions in case of leakage or breaking of pipes, cost effectiveness of the system, flow control with predictable benefits in terms of personal safety and economic savings.

Supervisory control and data acquisition is a multi layer system for high level process management. But uses other programmable controllers and discrete devices for its data acquisition, SCADA a in-house management system for the controlling and operations of the plant and various industrial models.

In SCADA the operator monitor and interface process commands and controlled set point through the master source of the SCADA system with SCADA computer, and all the remote devices are constrained with the effect of the Master system that is one of the block of the SCADA System.

Working domain of SCADA system implies in four categories they are data Collection, communication of data across the network, information reporting, and System control functions.

Data Collection involves assimilating data from various sensors while communication network provides the data sharing capability back to centralized locations.

Application Domain of SCADA is very wide in its operation although it’s a kind of a Giant system in which all the devices and controller are performing operations under it.

Distribution system of gases is one of the Application of the SCADA system in which the whole distribution of Gases is performed under the Supervisory system, while considering the application of the gases generally Include the involvement of the industrial process parameters. These parameters are directly supervised over the SCADA system and the controlling of it is done with the master feature of the SCADA system discussed above.

The addressable part of the SCADA system for the Gas distribution system is to redesign the whole distribution of the gases that is done under the convential method of the diaphragm based gas meters. And that topic is discussed with high Scope all around the world.

Project Objectives

• To construct the SCADA system for the Gas distribution network capable of measuring flow, pressure and leakage of pipes at a real time.
• To established the efficient communication system for the data transferring between MTU and RTU.
• To construct the cost efficient model for the industry specific case.
• An integrated system with low maintenance and more reliability.

Project Implementation Method

(1) Centralized monitoring of pipelines, which are more than fifty thousand kilometers in total area, for stable city gas transportation and supply.

(2) Localization of damaged areas and initial measures for security in disasters.

(3) Appropriate design, construction and maintenance for realizing monitoring and control from remote area.

Benefits of the Project

Organizations dealing with the Gas is now in the main concern to automate their manual process Oil and Gas industry is generally considered to be a drilling and mechanical infrastructure based companies and somehow it is true but the recent trend of investing in technology and reducing the labor cost in the full stream imparts the need of SCADA over their business unit through-out the organizations.

• Distribution network although enforces a big business infrastructure therefore organization have to provide a large services all around their distribution infrastructure, therefore the use of SCADA enhanced Continuous monitoring and control of distribution network is performed from remote locations.
• Facilitates the view of historian data in various ways which is the key factor for the finding the fault redundancy and evaluating the critical points of the operations.
• Manual method distribution is a quite statistical method for the organization therefore the implementation of the SCADA system for the distribution optimizes these effort of organization and also the chances of human error and due time services.
• Subsequent to see all these correspondence issue here it is a need to step up that will be exceptional useful in making an interpretation of the process variable in to real time actuation through the SCADA system and way of correspondence to handle any misfortune and its communication model.
• Reliability to withstand 24 hours continuous operation.
• High-speed performance to collect and deliver large-volume data.
• Flexibility which can cope with increasing and decreasing gas supply facilities.
• High functionality to support operators. In order to satisfy these requirements.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Main streams are,

(1)Pressure(2)Leakage.(3)Flow.(4)RF communication.(5)Master control.(6)GUI

•Array of smoke sensor at the critical point and nodes to analysis and detect the leak detection.

•Pressure Analysis of the pipeline at the real time and its calibration with flow dynamics.

•End flow measurements and evaluation of  usage and loss analysis.

•RF communications  for the data transferring between RTU and MTU.

•GUI  of Whole system at real time.

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Type of Industry

Energy

Technologies

Wearables and Implantables

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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