Neukirchen/Gera (Germany), 22nd - 23rd October 2009

This was the eighth and last project review meeting and was held in Neukirchen / Gera, organized by Aucoteam and covering the last 5 months of VAN project.

During this meeting the second Industrial Experimental Setup from VAN project was shown.

This prototype consists of three parts:

Central control and maintenance system System for communication between central and local control system Local control systems for geographically distributed biogas power plants An HMI system “SIMATIC WinCC” is used for central control and monitoring of the decentred biogas sub plants in PA prototype. A knowledge based maintenance system is integrated as VAN maintenance system and supports service technicians.

General structure of PA prototype

Each of the systems, the visualisation system WinCC and the maintenance system SUI, contain special OPC-CBA-Clients to access data from the CBA Server of the local controller using IEC 61158 Type 10 - PROFINET CBA – protocols.

More information on this can be found in issue 6 of VAN newsletter.