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CITECT
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Introduction
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All information pages have a similar layout with common elements along
the top, left and bottom of the screen (Figure 1.0). Below is a general
explanation of this standard template.
The first line of the template screen displays warning and information
messages and the current time and date. The second line of the top
section of the template displays the latest alarm and time of the alarm.
Additionally, there are several function buttons, namely; login button,
logout button, unacknowledged alarm button, alarm summary, hardware
alarms signal, disabled alarms signal and a button that toggles pop-up
help to be either ‘on’ or ‘off’ (when the mouse is positioned over any of the
buttons, a description of the button’s function is displayed in a yellow pop-
up information box).
The left side of the screen displays a column of function buttons. These
buttons allow quick access to any page in the COALSCAN SCADA system.
Another alternative to accessing any page in the COALSCAN SCADA
system is to use the function keys displayed in Table 1(page 2)
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The left hand side of the bottom line displays information and warning
messages. The next sections of the line display the program page name
and the user that is currently logged into the system.
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The Main Menu page will have buttons provided to navigate to various
parts of the program (Figure 2.1).
From the main menu the operator would have the option to navigate to
the following pages:
• System Overview (provides an overview of the COALSCAN results)
• Trend page (displays coal quality trends for the COALSCAN)
• Alarm page (provides COALSCAN alarm status and data)
• System Status (provides overall COALSCAN system status)
• Coal Flow Mimic Page (displays a mimic of the COALSCAN, coal flow
status and critical operating parameters)
• Utility Page (provides a range of system utilities and COALSCAN
utilities)
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This start and stop time and period are configurable within the COALSCAN
9500.)
A trend graph is displayed below the current results. The trend graph will
display the coal quality parameters as a function of time. All the
information for the trends will be logged continuously so that the
operators will be able to view past trends as well as current trends.
Immediately above the trend graph are a series of buttons, which enable
the user to navigate the cursor along the current trend page. Navigation
buttons include: Move cursor left quickly, Move cursor left slowly, Remove
cursor, Move cursor right slowly and Move cursor right quickly. There are
seven buttons immediately to the right of the navigation buttons. They
represent ash, moisture, energy, sulphur, iron oxide in ash, calcium in
ash and tons respectively. Each of these buttons is identifiable by a trend
colour.
Immediately right of the trend graph, there are two ´current pen selected’
scale buttons. Using these buttons, the lower and higher limits can be set
for the current trend.
Below the trend graph on the left hand side there is a current trend span
selection button. This allows the current display trend span to be adjusted
from a short period (e.g. 10 minutes) to a very long period (e.g. 12 hours).
Immediately below this button is a resolution button, which is
interdependent with the current trend span button. This variable should
not be adjusted manually. The navigation buttons at the base of the
graph enable the user to scroll the length of the current trend span with
the following options: Scroll trend left one span, Scroll trend left half a
span, Scroll trend right half a span, Scroll trend right one span and Scroll
trend to real time. The next group of buttons enable the user to zoom in
on the trend, zoom out of the trend, copy the graph to clipboard, copy to
file and print the trend. The final set of buttons to the right enable the
user to specify an end time and end date for the current trend span.
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A trend page will display the coal quality parameters as a function of time.
This trend page is similar to the trend graph described in the System
Overview Section (Figure 3.2). The trend graph buttons provide the same
functionality as described in the system overview page. However, for
completeness they are described again below:
Immediately above the trend graph are a series of buttons, which enable
the user to navigate the cursor along the current trend page. Navigation
buttons include: Move cursor left quickly, Move cursor left slowly, Remove
cursor, Move cursor right slowly and Move cursor right quickly. There are
seven buttons immediately to the right of the navigation buttons. They
represent ash, moisture, energy, sulphur, iron oxide in ash, calcium in
ash and tons respectively. Each of these buttons is identifiable by a trend
colour.
Immediately right of the trend graph, there are two ´current pen selected’
scale buttons. Using these buttons, the lower and higher limits can be set
for the current trend.
Below the trend graph on the left hand side there is a current trend span
selection button. This allows the current display trend span to be adjusted
from a short period (e.g. 10 minutes) to a very long period (e.g. 12 hours).
Immediately below this button is a resolution button, which is
interdependent with the current trend span button. This variable should
not be adjusted manually. The navigation buttons at the base of the
graph enable the user to scroll the length of the current trend span with
the following options: Scroll trend left one span, Scroll trend left half a
span, Scroll trend right half a span, Scroll trend right one span and Scroll
trend to real time. The next group of buttons enable the user to zoom in
on the trend, zoom out of the trend, copy the graph to clipboard, copy to
file and print the trend. The final set of buttons to the right enable the
user to specify an end time and end date for the current trend span.
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The trends will be displayed in real time on the trends page or on the
overall system view page. All the information for the trends will be logged
continuously so that the operators will be able to view past trends as well
as current trends.
All variables that are trended will be assigned trend tags and logged in
CITECT History Database Files. Each variable displayed on the trend
page will be represented by a line of specific colour and plotted on the
trend page against time. The operator will have the option of selecting
and positioning a slide wire cursor at a selected time to display the value
of a trend at the slide wire selected time. Additionally, the operators can
scroll horizontally across the trend graph by using the trend control
buttons.
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A list of all alarms that are recorded by the system are displayed. Details
of the time, date, alarm name and description are displayed (Figure 3.3).
On the right hand side of the screen, there are arrows enabling the user to
scroll up or down to view all the alarms recorded.
The alarm page will display a range of triggered alarms (and COALSCAN
status). The analyser has a number of operational requirements in order
to function. These parameters fall into the following main categories,
namely;
• Temperature
• Voltage
• Source status
• Belt status
• Material available
• Detector stability status
Digital Alarms
• Analyse Alarm
• Standardise Alarm
• Pause Alarm
• System Running
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Analog Alarms
Alarms will be logged to an ASCII file and displayed on the alarm page. To
acknowledge an alarm operators will select the specific alarm and click the
left mouse button or press the enter key. To acknowledge all alarms, the
operators should select the ‘Acknowledge Alarm’ Button, which is
displayed below the F9 button on the left of the screen.
An alarm will change colour once it has been acknowledged, but remains
displayed on the alarms page unit it is reset. Each alarm is identified by
its name, current state, the time it changed, and the current value of the
alarm.
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The mimic page depicts the analyser on the belt and some specific
operational parameters (Figure 3.5). A description of each of the
displayed parameters is provided:
The COALSCAN Status group provides useful information about the status
of the analyser:
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The first field in this group provides the user with the current status
of the conveyor. The conveyor can either be in stop or run mode.
The second field displays the speed of the discharge conveyor. To
the right of this field is a button (with restricted access) that will
override the automatic speed setting. This button allows the user to
override the auto speed setting and allow a manual speed setting.
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The utility page contains tools that allow general maintenance and system
diagnostics for the COALSCAN (Figure 3.6).
The top left of the screen enables users to access external programs
(depending on Security levels of the users). These programs include MS
DOS prompt, CITECT Kernel, Microsoft Excel, Qremote or Windows
Explorer.
Based on the security level of the user, it may be possible to Edit or Create
new Users and to specify automatic logout times if the screen is idle.
These actions can be achieved using the buttons in the top right of the
Utility Page.
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a) Reset Configuration [Shift F3] ( Figure 3.7) – This enables the user to
specify shift start times and lengths, a daily reset, whether to force Shift
End, Day End or Tonnes Weighted Average.
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c) Alarms Set-up [Shift F7] (Figure 3.9) – Using this screen, the user can
set the high and low limits for alarms to be recorded for different
parameters. It is also possible to control whether an alarm is enabled or
disabled from this screen.
d) Analysis Time Set-up [Shift F8] (Figure 3.10) – The Analyse time and
Standardise times can be set-up in this screen.
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