PLC CONTROL OF SCRAP BATTERY AND LEAD RECLAMATION PROCESS

A Programmable Logic controller (PLC) is a specialized computer, and designed to be
used for industrial control PLCs are used extensively in industrial control. Scrap battery
process is an industry process required in recycling used batteries. This process involves
scraping the used batteries and separated it to raw materials for new battery production.
This process involvesthe industrial automation and chemical reaction process.
This project is to implement the PLC control of scrap battery process. Besides that, this
project is aimed to design an optimum ladder logic program for the PLC controlling of
scrap battery process and enhance the scrap battery process by upgrading the process to
automation process. Nowadays, the manual operating system in the battery production,
result a low quantity and quality production. The control systems used previously in
battery industry are not user friendly and rehable. With this project, the author aim to
design a rehable, user friendly, high productivity, smooth and advanced automated PLC
controlling of scrap battery process.
The initial stage of the project involves feasibility studies of the scrap battery process,
including the electrical, chemical and mechanical process. This continues by the
literature review onthePLC andbattery recycling process, which related to this project.
The scrap battery process is analyzed and implemented it in Microsoft Visio and Auto
Cad. After analyzing the process, the scrap battery process is improved to a fully
automated process. The PLC ladder logic diagram for the scrap battery process is
designed and will be implemented in real PLC. Then the hardware circuitries,
components of the scrap battery process is built and combined to construct a scrap
battery process plant prototype. Finally, the scrap battery process plant prototype will be
interfaced with PLC, and the scrap battery and lead reclamation process is controlled by
the PLC. As a conclusion, the project is successfully done by PLC control of scrap
battery and lead reclamation process. This PLC control has proved that it brought
practical advantages to the battery recycling industry.