MEP 480 B. Sc. Design Project- Year 2011/2012

Investigation of 4 Control Virtual Labs: Water Tube Boiler, Steam Turbine Plant, Pumping Plant & Tank Filling Station

By Ahmed Taha Elbasuony. Ebrahim Mostafa Gamal. Eslam Saied Abd-Elazim. Mohamed Sayed Khamies. Saad Mohamed Taha.

Supervised by Dr. Mohsen Sayed Soliman , ACC Manager Mechanical Power Engineering DepartmentAbstract:

Specific Objectives of this design project:

1) Identifying the main concepts of industrial automatic

control systems in three mechanical power applications

by modern computer-based programs which simulate

This design Project deals with detailed investigation, verification & calibration of four Applications of Auto. Control

Virtual Labs. Theses Labs are: : Water Tube Boiler, Steam Turbine Plant, Pumping Plant and a Tank Filling Station.

by modern computer-based programs which simulate

those practical control systems.

2) Investigation of the tree Applications Automatic Control

Virtual Labs to understand their functions, how they

work and what are their input and output signals …etc

(there are more than 16 virtual labs in ACC).

3) Verification of accuracy and validity of the results

obtained by those three virtual labs through performing

engineering and scientific calibrations for those virtual

labs. The calibration is done by comparing internal

calculations done by those virtual labs with external

engineering calculations using thermo-dynamic,

conservation equations, and thermo-fluid relations to

get the same output results.

4) Training students and engineers on Technical Report

Writing and Presentation Skills for each Lab.

5) Enhancing the skills of Searching for information and

adopting self learning capabilities related to Automatic

systems and modern computer technologies.

Important Question: Why Virt. Lab. is useful?

What is The Objective Of the project?

1111----Water Tube Boiler Program Calibration:Water Tube Boiler Program Calibration:Water Tube Boiler Program Calibration:Water Tube Boiler Program Calibration:

•Program output Efficiency: = 0.848

•Manual Calculation efficiency:= 0.851

•Program Error = 0.00321

2- Control of Steam Turbine Power Plant:

Condensate Pump Control Trips:

-Condenser hot well level low.

-Deaerator heater level high.

-Low cooling water flow.

-Condensate pump coolant flow low.

-high bearing vibration.

-high bearing temperature.

-high motor stator winding temp.