Application: Provide a remote Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system designed to

provide remote operation, graphic display of information, alarm message display, report generation,
historical trending and remote controller tuning. The SCADA system shall be networked to the boiler
control and burner management systems. 

Equipment Requirements: Communications between the data acquisition system, the individual

controllers, and flame safeguards shall be via an industry standard protocol such as Modbus.  

Equipment Hardware: The system shall use standard IBM PC compatible hardware to simplify future
expansion, replacement and service requirements.  Provide the following workstation hardware at a
minimum: Intel Pentium IV micro-processor or newer, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB Hard Drive, 32 bit SVGA
video controller with 2 megabytes of memory, 26 dot pitch 17" SVGA Monitor, 3.5" Floppy Drive, CD
ROM Drive and internal Zip drive, Keyboard and Microsoft mouse, Tower Case for Computer, Alarm
printer, tractor feed 24 pin dot matrix printer, Shift report and trend deskjet printer and 650VA UPS
backup power system.

Equipment Software: The software package shall operate in conjunction with the Microsoft XP
operating system.  Reports shall be prepared automatically utilizing standard Microsoft Excel®
spreadsheets. Software shall be mouse based to allow for easy selection of screens, manual/automatic
status changes, start/stop functions, setpoint changes, and output changes without any special
programming skills.  The system shall be expandable in the future to a multi-workstation system via
standard Ethernet LAN hardware. Any measured or calculated value shall be available to third party
software via standard OLE for Process Control (OPC) Data Exchange as an option. Provide all necessary
software to allow field modification or expansion of the Data Acquisition system including graphics
drawing programs, data base builders, report generators, etc. Systems based on “run time only”
programs will not be acceptable

Human Machine Interface (HMI) Terminal Operation: The operator, when the local controllers are
enabled, shall have remote control of the following functions from the data acquisition terminal:
Manual/Auto mode of each controller, Controller setpoint values, Controller output when in the manual
mode, PID tuning parameters, Controller analog output values, Controller discrete output values.  The
HMI display shall provide a facsimile of the local controller and clearly labeled English language and
engineering unit display of the control parameters. No special programming skills shall be required for
any routine operating sequence.

Graphic Display: Information shall be displayed on the HMI as part of an easy to understand pictorial
representation of the process. At a minimum, the following pictorial “screens” shall be available for
observation:  As an example, a typical steam generator would display (when available): Steam drum
pressure, Steam flow for each boiler, Steam temperature, Drum water levels for each boiler, Flame
failure, Fuel flows, Combustion air temperature, Flue gas temperature, Boiler Efficiency (by ASME
“losses” method), Air flow, Flue gas recirculation damper position, Outlet damper position,  Controller
Faceplate Grouping for each boiler, Trend Screens for each group of controlled and process variables
as relates to each controller in the system. All values shall be displayed in engineering units adjacent
to the pictorial point of measurement.

Remote Tuning: Each controller in the system shall be capable of remote tuning of gain, reset, rate
and other important parameters via the SCADA System. Tuning the controllers shall be a “menu
driven” operation and shall not require special programming skills. When each controller is placed in
the remote tuning mode, a real time trend chart of controller inputs shall be displayed on the HMI to
aid the technician in setting the proper parameter values. This function shall be password protected for
security.

Alarm Generation: Where applicable, alarm status shall be displayed on the CRT generated process
pictorials. In addition, all alarms shall be printed as they occur on the alarm printer, and displayed on
the lower portion of each HMI display. The alarm log, as generated at the printer, shall indicate the
time at which the alarm occurred, the time at which the alarm was acknowledged and the time at
which the value returned to normal status. In addition to alarm conditions, this log shall also document
status changes such as a transfer from automatic to manual, setpoint change, etc. so that the
resultant printout is a true and complete log of plant operating conditions.
Report Generation: The log sheet printer shall print out: on demand, shift, daily,weekly, monthly,
and yearly plant operating reports for evaluation by the plant manager. As an example, for a steam
generator application, a report would list (when available): 

 Total steam generated by the plant and each boiler

 Total fuel used by the plant and each boiler
 Average cost of steam
 Input-Output efficiency of the plant and each boiler
 Items 1 through 4 shall also be reported on a “per degree day” basis where applicable
 Combustion efficiency (by ASME “By Losses” Method) for each boiler
 Make-up water flow in pounds and also as a percent of steam flow
 Hours of operation for each boiler
 Steam flow to each of the distribution headers

Historical Trending: The system shall be capable of storing the values from all transmitters as well
as system computed values (such as efficiency and compensated flow rates) to hard disk at selected
intervals. Stored data can be downloaded to an internal “zip” drive for archival storage and future
reloading into the system for analysis.  All data stored in the system shall be available on HMI or paper
plot displays as strip chart records with up to eight channels per display. The horizontal and vertical
axes of the trend displays shall be variable to provide the degree of overview or fine resolution
required for each specific analysis.  The software package shall be pre-programmed to give the
operator a “menu” of standard trend displays. If a custom display is required, the user shall be able to
generate the required display via help messages and a “fill-in-the blanks menu”. No special
programming skills shall be required.

Flame Safeguard Interface: The SCADA system shall have dedicated communications between the
computer and the Flame Safeguard systems so as to allow all alarms to be graphically represented on
the monitor. The system must be capable of displaying and recording the following statistics: Burner
Limits, Individual Lockouts, Burner Operational Hours, Total Burner Cycles, Burner Status, Last Six
Lockouts, Total Lockouts, and Flame Signal Strength. 

Data Acquisition System Compatibility: The SCADA System may be expanded to cover other plant
utilities.  It is therefore essential that the SCADA System supplied for this project be “open” and easily
adaptable to other brands of controllers, sensors and I/O hardware. As a minimum, the system
supplied under this contract must be able to communicate with 3 separate communication links
simultaneously.  The system must have available communication drivers for: Fireye and Honeywell
flame safeguards and Preferred Instrument PCC III and PWC Controllers. The system must not be
proprietary or dedicated to a single brand of controller or I/O hardware.

Quality Assurance: All control functions shall be accomplished within the individual Boiler Control
and Burner Management controllers and shall be monitored by the SCADA system so that the integrity
of the control system shall not be dependent on the status of the SCADA system or the interconnecting
network  (In the event of a control network and/or a SCADA shutdown, continued plant operator
monitoring and control must be available from the local controllers).  The SCADA system shall be a
Preferred Instruments, Danbury, CT, SCADA/Flex.