Browsing by Subject "PLC"

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Batch Mixing Skid Senior Design Capstone 2024
    (2024-05-01) Gibbs, Hayden; Wheeler , Zachary; Isaacs, Laiten; Freije , Elizabeth; Pash , Phillip; Weissbach , Robert
    This report will look at the Batch Mixing Skid located in ET222 of the Engineering Technology building. The purpose of the Batch Mixing Skid is to provide a comprehensive solution to demonstrate how various instrumentation can be integrated and utilized to monitor and automate a system. This system uses a PLC and HMI to control solenoid valves and pumps to move water to different tanks, as well as heating and mixing the liquids. This process is designed to replicate what could be seen in an industrial setting, but at a smaller scale. The current Batch Mixing Skid is loud, inefficient, and a burden to use making it difficult for faculty and students within the ECET 35100 to learn about the instrumentation on the Batch Mixing Skid. While this project has been worked on by multiple groups in the past, our goal is to make this system more user-friendly, more efficient, and made to last as well as to create a great platform for students to learn from. We will do this by replacing the systems' plumbing, installing a new PLC and HMI system, rewriting the code from the ground up, as well as other improvements. The goal, outcome, and why this project is significant is that this is a system that will be used by the department for many years to come. This aims to teach students in ECET 35100 more about instrumentation, PLCs, and ladder logic
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Indianapolis Motor Speedway Display Project
    (2019-12-11) Shi, Charleston; Ibanez, Cristobal; Freije, Eliabeth; Kitchen, Jeff
    The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum and Xtrac want an interactive display of a racecar transmission and allows people of all ages to witness learn. Xtrac has commissioned IUPUI engineers to create a control box that correlates to other functions of a racecar and then correspond said box to a steering wheel, with additional features specified by the sponsor. Since a transmission has mostly a mechanical aspect, Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students are paired with a team of EET/CPET students. Any mounting and specification requirements are a part of the MET students’ project requirements. Details regarding electrical power, circuit design, and electromechanical integration will be generated by the EET students.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Pneumatic PID with Ultrasonic Distance Feedback
    (2019-04-24) Al Fuhidah, Basim; Knight, Ron; Wilken, Blaine; Cooney, Elaine; William, Shapiro
    Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is initiating a new course to the Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) Curriculum in the spring of 2019, this course is Advanced Process Controls. The lab curriculum for this course needed a functional application to demonstrate the use of a proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID). The lab location for this course has one important limitation, specifically no use of water; therefore, our design integrates the use of pneumatics. Using the lab’s existing Rockwell Automation PLC and software package, this design uses the PLC’s PID instruction to maintain an extension length on a pneumatic single acting cylinder. This closed control loop consists of the PLC and analog I/O card, an ultrasonic distance sensor, one pneumatic cylinder for the controlled variable, one pneumatic cylinder as a disturbance, and two Proportion-Air QB1X analog controlled pneumatic solenoids. The final design in summary, uses the ultrasonic sensor to provide feedback to the PID with the current extended length of the pneumatic cylinder. This establishes any error, and the properly tuned PID uses this feedback to respond accordingly to ensure the desired extension length of the cylinder is maintained.