Author : Sneha Bhimrao Joundale 1
Date of Publication :12th April 2017
Abstract: Most of the coke ovens plant has the manual schedule for pushing and charging sequence of the ovens. The manual schedule gives rise to several problems which affect the process time resulting in the decrease in the production. This paper presents the full automatic system for coke oven scheduling. Further, using this auto schedule battery machines can be made to work according to schedule leading to man-less operation of battery machines. The optimized auto schedule is created by process control system which uses plc logic based on the scheduling algorithm. This auto schedule system reduces all errors and all battery machines are made to work automatically using the schedule. This approach makes the system completely automatic in operation; which improves an efficiency of the plant and also reduces operator workload. Optimized auto pushing and charging schedule of coke ovens create the comfortable working environment.
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