Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 4-15-2015 12:00 AM Configuration, Programming, Implementation, and Evaluation of Distributed Control System for a Process Simulator Ximing Liu The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Jin Jiang The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Engineering Science © Ximing Liu 2015 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Controls and Control Theory Commons Recommended Citation Liu, Ximing, "Configuration, Programming, Implementation, and Evaluation of Distributed Control System for a Process Simulator" (2015). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2801. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2801 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. CONFIGURATION, PROGRAMMING, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A PROCESS SIMULATOR (Thesis format: Monograph) by Ximing Liu Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering Science School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Ximing Liu, 2015 Abstract A common industrial distributed control system (DCS), DeltaV, is configured and programmed to control and monitor the Nuclear Process Control Test Facility (NPCTF). A cabinet which holds the hardware of the DelatV DCS system, including programmable logic controller (PLC), power supplies, input/output (I/O) cards, terminals, and relays are configured and wired to field devices of NPCTF.