Pc-arrangement for visualisation, diagnosis and expert systems for monitoring, controlling and regulating high voltage supply units of electric filters

• US 20050119862A1
• Filed: 03/11/2003
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Grass, Norbert
• Granted Patent: US 7,502,701 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/188
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/68 Control systems therefor electricity supply or control systems for cleaning the electrodes B03C3/746, B03C3/763
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 13/028 using expert systems only
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

A PC-arrangement is for visualisation, diagnosis and expert systems for monitoring, controlling or regulating high voltage supply units of electric filters. The PC-arrangement for visualisation, diagnosis and expert systems for monitoring, controlling and regulating high voltage supply units of electric filters includes a server-PC which is linked to high-voltage supply units of electric filters via a first network; and a client-PC forming a second network with the server-PC. In order to keep the network load on the first network connecting the server PC to the high voltage supply units as low as possible and to use Microsoft-standard mechanisms for distributed systems in order to achieve network capability for visualisation and measuring data processing systems, a software structure of the PC-device is broken down into autarchic software modules which respectively carry out at least one function. One autarchic server software module is formed in order to carry out data transfer and data exchange with the high-voltage supply units. The server software module is executed on the server PC connected to the high voltage supply units of the electric filters via the first network, and the other software modules are executed on each client-PC or the server-PC.

Claims

1. A PC arrangement for visualization, diagnosis and expert systems for monitoring and controlling or regulating high-voltage supply units for electrostatic comprising:

a server PC, linked via a first network to the units; and

client PCs, forming a second network with the server PC and connected to the first network for at least one of data transmission data exchange with the units via the server PC, wherein

software structure for the PC arrangement is broken down into autonomous software modules which each realize at least one functionality, wherein one of the software modules is an autonomous server software module which realizes the at least one of data transmission and data exchange with the high-voltage supply units, and is implemented on the server PC connected to the high-voltage supply units for the electrostatic filter via the first network, and wherein further of the software modules are implementable on at least one of a client PC and the server PC.

2. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first network, which connects the server PC (2) to the high-voltage supply units, is a Profibus network.

3. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first network, which connects the server PC to the high-voltage supply units, is an Ethernet network using TCP/IP.

4. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second networks, which connects the server PC to the client PCs, is a standard network.

5. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server software module implemented on the server PC is at least one of a DCOM server and a WinSocket server.

6. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein one group of high-voltage supply units has an associated bus coupler.

7. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the server software module is designed such that it can be used to categorize a large number of data from controllers of the high-voltage supply units differently, wherein imaging of measured and status data from the controllers in the server software module is cyclically updatable, and wherein other data is transmitable at the request of one of the client PCs.

8. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein a connection between the server PC which implements the server software module and the controllers is automatically startable when data from the controllers is requested at one or more client PCs.

9. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the functionality “

measured data archiving”

is realized by an autonomous measured data software module.

10. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 9, wherein the measured data software module is in the form of at least one of a databank and data system in which measured and status data are archivable for a predeterminable period of time.

11. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the functionalities “

visualization, parameter setting, device control”

are realized by an autonomous display software module.

12. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 11, wherein, by use of the display software module, data stored in the measured data software module is accessible, measured and status data updated in the server software module is accessible and, by use of the server software module, further data available in the controllers is directly accessible.

13. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display software module is implementable on two or more client PCs and the server PC simultaneously.

14. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display software module is realizable on different user planes.

15. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the functionality “

control of auxiliary drives”

is realized by an autonomous control software module.

16. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 15, wherein the control software module is adapted to match components of the electrostatic filter, automatically, to different operating conditions of the electrostatic filter.

17. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the functionality “

optimization”

is realized by an autonomous optimization software module.

18. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 17, wherein, use of the optimization software module, is adapted to optimize the operation of the electrostatic filter, using as a basis a least one of efficiency of the electrostatic filter and the energy consumption of the electrostatic filter.

19. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 17, wherein the server software module implemented in the server PC is accessible by use of the measured data software module, the display software module, the optimization software module and the control software module.

20. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the data transmission and the data exchange, via the server software module, is both cyclic and event-controllable.

21. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second network, which connects the server PC to the client PCs, is an Ethernet network using TCP/IP protocol.

22. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 2, wherein the second network, which connects the server PC to the client PCs, is an Ethernet network using TCP/IP protocol.

23. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second network, which connects the server PC to the client PCs, is an Ethernet network using TCP/IP protocol.

24. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein a connection between the server PC which implements the server software module and the controllers is automatically startable when data from the controllers is requested at one or more client PCs.

25. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 12, wherein the display software module is implementable on two or more client PCs and the server PC simultaneously.

26. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 12, wherein the display software module is realizable on different user planes.

27. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 13, wherein the display software module is realizable on different user planes.

28. The PC arrangement as claimed in claim 18, wherein the server software module implemented in the server PC is accessible by use of the measured data software module, the display software module, the optimization software module and the control software module.