Diseño e implementación de un sistema de control automático para la destiladora de reactor de vidrio en la planta piloto del departamento de ciencias de alimentos y biotecnología de la facultad de ingeniería química

Abstract

The present article exposes the design and implementation of an automatic control system for the operation of the glass reactor distiller. This equipment performs the distillation of water and the separation of the compounds that are present in the mixtures that originate when carrying out the different processes of the pilot silver.

The main part of the control system is a programmable logic controller, which receives the signals from the measuring instruments (sensors) and control elements, executes the programming logic and controls the level, pressure and temperature parameters.

The operation of the distiller is by means of a local HMI developed on a touch screen and a remote HMI developed in the INTOUCH software, allowing the operator to monitor, supervise and manage the alarms of the distillation process in real time. The communication is through the PROFINET protocol and TCP / IP, it allows the exchange of data through a LAN network with a star topology and static IP addresses.

The control system allows the distillation process to be continuous, taking into account the safety of the operator and the distiller's infrastructure.