Plant supervisory system
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYutaka Yoshida, Koki Yanagawa, Takuji Tahara, Shoichi Sano, Hideki Takahashi, Haruyoshi Iwase, Koji Saito, Takahiro Yamamoto
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Abstract
In a plant supervisory system, many computers (functional servers) that distributively perform functions are connected through two types of transmission paths (such as a control bus and an information bus). The control bus is used to transmit periodic data such as process data. Event data is transmitted through the information bus. Thus, many computers can be connected. In addition, the latest value of process data can be referenced by each computer.
Claims11
A plant supervisory system for inputting process data of a plant from a control unit and supervising the plant, comprising:
- a plurality of functional servers for inputting the process data and distributive performing calculating processes necessary for supervising the plant;
- a first transmission path for transmitting data shared within the control unit and said functional servers;
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- a second transmission path for transmitting data shared within said functional servers, the second transmission path being independent of the first transmission path, wherein the data transmitted by the second transmission path is not shared within the control unit and said functional servers.
A plant supervisory system for inputting process data of a plant and supervising the plant, comprising:
- a traversing incore probe (TIP) control unit for causing TIP to measure a TIP level corresponding to a control command;
- a TIP level collecting unit for transmitting the control command to said TIP control unit and collecting the TIP level from said TIP control unit;
- a display control station for inputting the process data and displaying information of the plant;
- a TIP server for outputting the control command to said TIP level collecting unit corresponding to a TIP level collection start request that is input through said display control station and storing data collected by said TIP level collecting unit;
- a first transmitting path for transmitting data shared with in said TIP level collecting unit and said display control station and in said TIP level collecting unit and said TIP server;
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- a second transmission path for transmitting data shared with in said display control station and said TIP server.
A plant supervisory system for inputting process data of a plant and supervising the plant, comprising:
- a first transmission path;
- a control unit, connected to said first transmission path, for performing a control rod operation corresponding to a control rod operation command and outputting control rod position data;
- an information managing server for storing and managing control rod sequence data and data transmitted from said control unit through said first transmission path;
- a display control station for inputting the process data transmitted through said transmission path, displaying information of the plant, receiving a control rod operation request, and outputting the control rod operation command;
- a rod worth minimizer controller, connected to said first transmission path, for determining whether or not the control rod operation is available corresponding to the control rod sequence received from said information managing server and the control rod position data received from said control unit and outputting a control rod operation prohibition signal to said control unit corresponding to the determined result;
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- a second transmission path for exchanging data between said information managing server and said display control station.
A plant supervisory system for inputting process data of a plant from a control unit and supervising the plant, comprising:
- a first transmission path and a second transmission path;
- a display control station for inputting the process data from the control unit through said first transmission path and displaying information of the plant;
- a functional server for inputting operation information from said display control station through said second transmission path and outputting a target value control command or a unit operation command for said control unit to said first transmission path corresponding to the process data;
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- an operation output unit for outputting a high speed periodic operation command to said control unit by dedicated connecting means corresponding to the target value control command received from said functional server through said first transmission path.
A plant supervisory system for inputting process data of a plant and supervising the plant, comprising:
- a first transmission path;
- a process data input unit for inputting process data through a aid first transmission path and performing in parallel a process for outputting an instantaneous value and a process for outputting buffered data of the input process data;
- a functional server for inputting the instantaneous value from said process data input unit through said first transmission path and performing a calculating process for supervising the plant;
- a high speed data recording server for inputting the buffered data from said process data input unit through said first transmission path and recording the data at high speed;
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- a second transmission path for exchanging data between said functional server and said high speed data recording server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.