Introduction to Foundation Field Bus

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Professor, Electrical
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IIT Madras. India

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Acknowledgement
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Some information had been taken from Emerson Project

Management Slide Show available in the Web
Web.

At least 3 Photographs, some information and 2 Tables have been

taken from Emerson Project Management
Management, for Illustration
Illustration.
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Field Bus was designed for Process
Industry by the Process Industry
Picture Below: A Complex Project
( Courtesy:
y Emerson Project
j Management)
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 Foundation Field Bus System
S it bl ffor R
Suitable Remote
t areas
Courtesy: (Emerson Project Management)
Alaska Oil Well Installation
Process to be monitored in Aggressive Environment

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Foundation Field Bus System Suitable for Remote areas

Courtesy: (Emerson Project Management)

Alaska Oil Well Installation
Process to be monitored is in Hazardous Environment

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 Introduction
• Modern control and automation are essentially based
on Foundation Fieldbus.
• The various field instruments and actuators are
assigned new capabilities
• F example
For l the
h operators can easily
il view
i many more
critical process variables and the states of the actuators
than in the conventional Distributed Control.
Control
• The most important advantage is that the wiring
and installation costs are reduced
reduced. All these factors
increase the support for the maintenance of the
Plants.
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 Definition of Field-bus:
It is a two-way, digital multi-drop communication link
among intelligent field devices and automation systems.

• Field bus uses a twisted pair of wires with a shield.

• Both DC power supply and Binary signals are
accommodated in a single twisted pair

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• Interesting features:

• Some suppliers give polarity insensitive free field

bus components
p so that wiring
g cross over of the
cables does not present any problem.

• The devices, if they are intelligent enough can

be made to communicate with each other
without disturbing the main computer
computer.

• Field bus accepts multiple sensors and

actuators

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 Installation

The number of devices per segment of the

Field b
bus
s is 16
16.

• The simplicity of the Bus transfers the burden

from the Hardware side to the Software side.

• The software enables automatic identification of

new devices added.

• It also grants an address for the new device.

Device information is registered in Computer.

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 Terminology in Field Bus Systems:
• Th following
The f ll i three
th specifications
ifi ti are b
based
d on S
Speed:
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• H1: 31.25 Kbps #18 AWG Range 1900* m
• H2: 1.0 Mbps #22 AWG Range 750* 750 m
• H3: 2.5 Mbps #22 AWG Range 500* m
• The wiring follows IEC 1158-2 Standard

• Total length of cable should be less than 1900 m

((shielded,, 18 AWG,, Type
yp B))
• When connecting up to 12 devices in a powered, bus,
the Spur length limit should be:
• 120 m with one device
• 90 m with two devices
• 60 m with three devices * 30 m with four devices

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 Communication:

• The data transfer is via bi-directional Frames.

• The Pre-amble, start and end of a Frame are

indicated by De-limiters in the Frame
Frame.

• The delimiters use binary levels and edges

edges.

• Other data use only binary edges.

• The type
yp of frame and data are also p
present.
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The individual devices take over the bus
based upon
p ap priority
y assigned.
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This may be done by using a token

passing procedure.

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 Field bus Compatible Devices Available:
Absolute Pressure Differential Pressure Vortex Flow meter

Electromagnetic Flow Coriolis Mass Ultrasonic Flow

meter Flowmeter meter
Temperature Transmitter Temperature Plain Level
Multiplexer
Magnetrostrictive Level Radar Level Ultrasonic Level

Conductivity pH meter Oxygen &

Combustibles
Process Gas Fiber optic Fiber optic pressure
Chromatograph temperature
C ti
Continuous Gas
G Analyzer
A l Nuclear
N l V
Valve
l O /Off Valve
On/Off V l
Positioners
Fieldbus to Pneumatic Current to Fieldbus Fieldbus to Current

Discrete I/O Discrete Mobile recorder

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I/O Multiplexer
 Manufacturers of Fieldbus Devices
ABB Tyco Valves & MetsoAutomation
Controls
F b
Foxboro E d
Endress+ H
Hauser Y
Yamatake
k Corp
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Honeywell Krohne Messtechnik Pepperl + Fuchs
Samson AG Burkert WrkeGmbH WestlockControls
Emerson Process Ohmart Vega Flowserve Corp
Management
Fieldbus Inc.
Inc Fuji Electric Corp Oval Corp
Biffi Yokogawa Electric Smart International
Dresser Valve Ledeen Stonel Corporation
Division
EIM Controls Inc KTEK
Rotork Controls Ltd TopWorx Beijing
HuakongTechnology
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 Case History:
(Ref. Emerson Process Management Inc)
• In an oil well installation in Alaska,, Cost savings
g
for first 64 wells as quoted by Emerson Inc
Cost Savings:
Project component Cost when Conventional Cost
Field bus is used

Engineering vs. $ 336, 000 $ 480,000

Commissioning $ 14,000
14 000 $ 86,000
86 000

Wiring 206 K$ vs $ 206,000 $ 596,000

Audited Savings $ 556,000 $ 1162,000

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Other Reductions:

• Terminations 84% • I/O Cards 93%

• Panel Space 70% • Transmitters 28%

• Wiring 5 mins instead of many hours.

2 wires for a bunch of 16 devices instead of 32 wires in the

conventional I/O bus

75 Loops for one cabinet

Commisioning 5 mins instead if many Hours per device

st u e tat o a
Instrumentation and
d Maintenance
a te a ce 75%
5% reduction
educt o in ttime
e
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• Conclusions:

• Fieldbus brings dramatic savings in

installation and commissioning cost
cost.
• However the real value of the Field bus
i seen and
is d appreciated
i t ddduring
i plant
l t
operation...

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End

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