Global Projects, water management, control systems

Power and Desalination Plant

Monitoring and archiving water quality in the desert

Client
Umm Al Nar Power

Location
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Service Provided
Systems Integration

The Challenge

Total Automated Solutions was awarded a contract to design, install and commission a SCADA package to monitor and archive water quality parameters on the Umm Al Nar power and desalination plant located on Sas Al Nakiel Island, Abu Dhabi.

Local environmental regulations stipulate that various water quality parameters are monitored and recorded. Manual sampling and analysis was a highly labour intensive procedure with no automatic monitoring and recording so it was deemed necessary to install an automated system.

Water Management

Design, Install and Commission of a SCADA package

Used Profinet protocol for IO communicates over a fibre optic

“Total Automated Solutions’ team of experienced and knowledgeable systems engineers have designed, manufactured, and installed a high-quality control panel that perfectly met all our requirements.”

— Blue Phoenix

The Solution

Total Automated Solutions designed the system around a Siemens solution.

Using the Profinet protocol, the distributed IO communicates over a fibre optic backbone. Fibre optic communication was used to achieve a high bandwidth over the long distances.

The use of fibre optic brought significant cost reductions, as it avoided having to lay expensive multicore cables.

Profinet protocal distribution of IO communicated over a fibre optic backbone

The Results

The SCADA top-end requirement was to display the gathered information that allowed real-time monitoring of the entire system as well as trending and logging of each parameter at 20 seconds for one year.

Siemens WinCC was used as this allowed us to make full use of the custom graphics for mimics and topology illustrations. Siemens ‘Maintenance Station’ was installed on the SCADA machine to give the client extended diagnostic functionality, allowing a user to see detailed information about each element of the remote system all the way down to individual I/O cards.

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