Engineering Design and Simulation of Integrated Control System for Optimization of Transport System in Coal Handling Facilities with Automated Surge Bin

Abstract

At this time, technological developments continue to rise and get into all aspects such as telecommunications, banking, construction, oil and gas, trade, marine, mining, etc. Technology creates the change to become more effective and efficient. It is also happening in the world of mining with infrastructure facilities. In this study focuses on automation in the coal handling facility. The automation of control system has been developed from two stations into one integrated station that can increase production time and the system becomes more efficient and also reduce the failure of operator to start on the right time. Integration of the system is created with designing surge bin system with installing the sensors and to be connected to PLC device. Then, simulations have been done by developing ladder logic program using a PLC. This study focuses designing the sensors into surge bin until doing PLC simulation for integrated control system so both systems can be connected automatically and having the main control.