SCADA Course

( 5 Days )

 

 General

Course to be 5 days long, starting with introduction and containing information about design, installation, maintenance.  Oil and Gas Production will be the basis of the course.  There will be a pre-instruction exercise, exercises during the course and a post-instruction exercise.  S. Boyer’s book, “SCADA, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition”, published by ISA, will be referenced throughout the course.

 

 

Day 1 :

§         Introduction of instructor and attendees

§         Pre instruction exercise

§         Outline of the course :

o        Introduction to concepts, Definitions

o        Case study of pipeline SCADA

o        A combination of many technologies

o        Definitions

o        Control systems without SCADA (Local Instrumentation)

o        Remote Terminal Unit (RTU)

o        Master Terminal Unit (MTU)

o        Communication between RTU and MTU (Wire, Radio, Satellite)

o        Communication between MTU and other business systems

o        Applications

 

§         Expansion of the Subject

o        More detailed definition of SCADA

o        What is similar between SCADA and DCS?

o        What is different between SCADA and other control systems?

o        Definition of Supervisory

o        Real time and what it really means

o        Brief history of SCADA

o        Why do we need SCADA?

 

Day 2 :

§         Manual Control

o        Concept of feedback

o        Concept of Deadtime and Overshoot

 

§         Automatic Control

o        Proportional, Integral and Differential Control

o        Concept of Fuzzy Logic

o        Concept of Artificial Intelligence

o        Concept of Feedforward

o        Concept of Archives

 

§         Things we need to measure

o        Level

o        Pressure

o        Temperature

o        Flow

o        Position

o        Analysis  

 

§         How to get the information from the process to the controller

o        Medium, Language, Time

o        Discrete or Analog or Digital

o        Protocols, Modbus, IEEE,

 

Day 3 :

§         Necessary Concepts

o        Digital Number Systems

o        Electronic Tools, Schmidt Triggers, Flip Flops, Clocks

o        Multiplexers/Demultiplexers and Aliasing

o        Analog to Digital Conversion

o        Modems

 

Day 4 :

§         RTUs

§         MTUs and Sub MTUs

§         Protocols

§         Handshaking

 

Day 5 :

§         Wirelines, Radios, and Telephones

§         Radio Paths

§         Satellite Communication

§         Integration of the System

§         Applications

§         Sources of Systems

§         Economics

§         Security

§         Expected future changes

§         Post Instructional Exercise

§         Discussion and Questions