Portable Data Acquisition and Online wireless data acquisition for Distillation Column

摘要

The invariable necessity of data acquisition for monitoring and control of various industrial applications has fueled the need for the design and development of modular, reliable and accurate tailor made Data Acquisition systems. The system developed, is aimed at providing a standard data acquisition system. Agilent 34970A Data Acquisition / Switch Unit and ICP CON Data Acquisition Modules have been used for the purpose of data acquisition. Their effective use is demonstrated on an experimental set-up of Distillation Column having 9 trays. Various parameters like temperature, pressure etc at various points of Distillation Column have to be monitored to carry out the control and analysis of the process. In the present paper, with the help of Agilent 34970A D.A unit the data acquired is used for offline analysis of the Distillation process and the same is presented. However, wireless data acquisition is demonstrated using ICP CON modules although data is acquired online in both the cases. Although, in the paper Agilent 34970A Data Acquisition/Switch Unit and ICP CON Data Acquisition Modules have been used for acquiring data from Distillation column but when used with relevant transducers and signal conditioners, they can be used as a general purpose data acquisition system for a variety of industrial and research applications like Power Generation Plants, Chemical plants, Position Monitoring Systems and lots of other industrial control and monitoring systems.