PCaPAC2012 - List of Authors (Chachondia, A.S.)

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PLC-based Control System for 10 MeV Linear Accelerator at EBC Kharghar, BARC

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A.S. Chachondia, B.B. Biswas, D.P. Chakravarthy, G. Ganesh, L.M. Gantayet, K.C. Mittal, M.K. Mukesh Kumar, M.B. Patil, R.K. Patil
BARC, Mumbai, India

Currently the 10MeV Linac is being used for different research applications and industrial use. The control system in operation was developed using CAMAC based DAS, backed by Hard-wired Interlock System. It is proposed to replace the CAMAC system with a state-of-the-art indigenously developed PLC that is verified to the level of a Class IB computer-based system used in nuclear power plants. A PLC node comprises of two VME bus based CPU boards (PowerPC MPC7447, 600MHz) working in redundant mode. The Inputs and Outputs are common to both CPUs. The intelligent I/O boards are hot swappable. The PLC hardware and software has undergone rigorous verification and validation. A user-friendly development environment is provided to the process engineer for building the application using pre-defined function blocks. The LCS developed using PLC is to be used for operating the Linac irradiation facility, remotely as well as locally in a fail-safe mode, with sequential start-up and sequential shut-down. Apart from system status monitoring, data archiving, alarm generation and setpoint adjustments, it shall monitor the important parameters and trip the GM HV, KM HV and EG PS on fault conditions.

Slides THCA05 [0.497 MB]

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THCA05	PLC-based Control System for 10 MeV Linear Accelerator at EBC Kharghar, BARC	100
	A.S. Chachondia, B.B. Biswas, D.P. Chakravarthy, G. Ganesh, L.M. Gantayet, K.C. Mittal, M.K. Mukesh Kumar, M.B. Patil, R.K. Patil BARC, Mumbai, India
	Currently the 10MeV Linac is being used for different research applications and industrial use. The control system in operation was developed using CAMAC based DAS, backed by Hard-wired Interlock System. It is proposed to replace the CAMAC system with a state-of-the-art indigenously developed PLC that is verified to the level of a Class IB computer-based system used in nuclear power plants. A PLC node comprises of two VME bus based CPU boards (PowerPC MPC7447, 600MHz) working in redundant mode. The Inputs and Outputs are common to both CPUs. The intelligent I/O boards are hot swappable. The PLC hardware and software has undergone rigorous verification and validation. A user-friendly development environment is provided to the process engineer for building the application using pre-defined function blocks. The LCS developed using PLC is to be used for operating the Linac irradiation facility, remotely as well as locally in a fail-safe mode, with sequential start-up and sequential shut-down. Apart from system status monitoring, data archiving, alarm generation and setpoint adjustments, it shall monitor the important parameters and trip the GM HV, KM HV and EG PS on fault conditions.
	Slides THCA05 [0.497 MB]