Water Services Corporation SCADA A Tool for Efficient Resource Management The experience of Water Service Corporation Malta for the Water/WasteWater Management Systems Ing. Antoine Psaila Sig. Corrado Giussani GE Intelligent Platforms
BACKGROUND GOZO Three Islands COMINO Areas: - Malta: 246km 2 - Gozo and Comino: 70km 2 Population (2014): 421,364 (density =1,333 p/km 2 ) MALTA Temperature from 7ºC to 35ºC Rainfall: 500-600mm average No rivers or lakes
Groundwater Status Estimated total groundwater abstraction Sustainable water for extraction 33 million m 3 23 million m 3 EU LIFE+ Investing in Water National Water Conference Report 2012 The water produced by 90% of Malta s aquifers no longer meets the Maltese and EU standards for safe drinking water!
WSC POTABLE WATER SOURCES System Components Malta 3 Desalination plants 17 reservoirs 11 pumping stations (groundwater galleries) 13 booster stations 90 production boreholes Gozo and Comino 8 reservoirs (2 Comino) 2 major pumping stations (groundwater galleries) 15 booster stations 41 production boreholes
SCADA BASIC FEATURES ALARMS The newly refurbished WSC control Centre 2012 MIMIC SCREENS TRENDING
WSC SCADAS ARCHITECTURE ( Physical Machines ) ( Physical Machines ) OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Cimplicity/HMI Proficy 9.0 Server OS: Windows Server 2008 Cimplicity/HMI Proficy 7.5 Server OS: Windows XP SP3 Cimplicity/HMI Proficy 7.5 Viewer Primary Waste water Server1 Secondary Waste Water Server2 Primary Water Server1 Secondary Water Server2 Water Viewers x2 OS: Windows 7 Cimplicity/HMI Proficy 9.0 Viewer/ Developer OS: Windows 7 OS: Windows 2003 Server SP4 MS SQL 2000 Server Waste Water Viewers x3 Historian Webspace MSSQL1 MSSQL2 Firewall ` Virtualised Machines (Vmware) Citrix secure connection Cimplicity Webview connection CORPORATE WAN REGIONAL OFFICES Desalination Plants SCADAS Polishing Plant SCADA (Gozo) Potable Water Outstations SCADA Users, Technicians and Engineers SCADA Engineers Secure VPN connection Cimplicity WebView connection Waste Water Outstations
Client Server Architecture Redundancy Extensive Driver Set Highly Scalable MODBUS TCP/IP CIMPLICITY HMI / SCADA OPC DA SERVER Vector based graphics Digital Graphics Re-Play Web-Visualization Integrated Data Collection thru Proficy Historian MODBUS RTU Protocol Gateway DESALINATION PLANTS SCADAS Ethernet/IP PLC RTU POLISHING +UF PLANTS SCADAS RTU Note: Ultrafiltration Plants still in construction Phase
COMMUNICATION OPTIONS 3 rd Party Wireless 3G Station IP IP WIFI Station Licensed UHF Radio ADSL or FIBRE IP: 192.168.1.102 IP IP IP: 192.168.1.101 IP IP: 192.168.1.103 IP ROUTING RS232 Note: 1 Radio network Water & Wastewater
TYPICAL OUTSTATION MIMIC
MAINTENANCE SCREENS
PLC CONTROL SCHEDULES
OUTSTATION COMMUNICATIONS Online Analysers Energy meter PLC VFD SOFT STARTER Modbus rs485 EM Flow meter HMI Protocols: Ethernet/IP Modbus TCP/IP
DIGITAL TYPICAL WASTEWATER OUTSTATION Standard Layout - Water & Waste Water Modular approach Standard integration methodology Local (HMI)/SCADA for monitoring and configuration of control scheme Logic for pump alternation sequence, level control, pressure control, overfill and pump protection Calculation of Specific Energy and other KPI s
DESALINATION PLANTS - ENERGY PERFORMANCE Specific Power / (kwh/m 3 ) Energy Cost ( /m 3 ) 7.9 7.7 7.5 7.3 7.1 6.9 6.6 6.4 6.2 6.0 5.8 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.0 4.8 4.6 4.4 4.2 4.0 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 Jan-00 Jul-00 Jan-01 Jul-01 Jan-02 Jul-02 Jan-03 Jul-03 Jan-04 Jul-04 Jan-05 Jul-05 Jan-06 Jul-06 Jan-07 Jul-07 Jan-08 Jul-08 Jan-09 Jul-09 Jan-10 Jul-10 Jan-11 Jul-11 Jan-12 Jul-12 Jan-13 Jul-13 Jan-14 Jul-14 Jan-15
Year Action 1998 Take-over from Polymetrics Actions: Excessive valve throttling, non-matching duty points, pumps leaks, Well pumps to drain!! 2001 Installation of Pelton Turbines 2004 Pressure exchangers replaced Francis Turbine pumps. Energy recovery efficiency 2009 Upgrading of desalination plants SCADA system, energy recovery pumps and membrane replacement (i.e. 75% of membranes). (EU pre-accession funds) 2010 Installation of VFD pressure optimisation and better control 2016 Replacement of 25% of membranes, pressure exchangers, and replacement of pumps
DESALINATION PLANTS MAINTENANCE THROUGH SCADAS Condition based maintenance: Monitoring of bearing and winding temperature 2 Alarms High temperature Alarm Shut-down Alarm Manual work order Time based maintenance: Automatic SAP notifications for maintenance on electric switchgear, oil changes, calibration checks, etc.
REDUCTION IN WATER PRODUCED
LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PICTURE! System Demand Billed Amount Real Losses Apparent Losses Apparent Losses Billed Amount Unmetered Amount Real Losses The Problem of Apparent Losses!
AUTOMATED METER MANAGEMENT PROJECT Started off in April 2010 Target for 100% coverage Current status: Total Accounts Meters fitted with AMM % fitted Reachable (over 3 days) %Reachable (over 3 days) Billable % Billable 262k 216k 82.5% 196k 93.08% 190k 87.8% Completing the Water Balance!
INTEGRATION GIS - AMM
CONCLUSION Future Projects: All functional stations will be upgraded with PLC and VFD control Addition of 127 new water SCADA outstations Implementation of a new UHF radio infrastructure common to Water an Wastewater outstation Estimate (> 7 million) Our Vision: Continuous efforts to unlock the numerous opportunities that exist in bridging the data: SCADA HISTORIAN - AMM GIS CRM EAM Provide real-time and historical data for efficient resource management Reducing data redundancy (Corporate Historian) Create a complete water balance Manage better leakages and eliminating the unknowns! Creating more in-house expertise! Team of 3 Engineers & 13 technicians
Thanks for listening! antoine.psaila@wsc.com.mt corrado.giussani@ge.com 29 th September 2015