FOUNDATION FIELDBUS INTEROPERABILITY TEST, SYSTEM CONFIGURATION AND LOOP DESIGN OF FLOW, PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE PLANT (EMERSON DELTAV)

Fieldbus is a computer network protocols used for real-time distributed
control. Previously in control systems, workstations were connected using the Direct
Digital Control (see Appendix 1). The integrated of this serial communication that
has been currently used which is 4-20 mA communication schemes which require
each device to have its own communication point at the controller level. This
condition will eventually increase the cost. However, the Fieldbus technology
manages to solve this disadvantage by connecting the multiple of analog and digital
points to the controller level at the same time and other advantages [1]. The further
research and test on it performance need to be done. Hence, the FOUNDATION
Fieldbus Interoperability Test, System Configuration and Loop Design are to
perform the technical verification and interoperability of every FOUNDATION
Fieldbus host and devices. This project comes from four vendors which are
EMERSON, YOKOGAWA, HONEYWELL and FOXBORO. However, this project
would be focusing on EMERSON system. This project aims to provide a brief
familiarization to the FOUNDATION Fieldbus system and explore more about the
performance of this technology for the industrial applications. The laboratory testing
(dry test) will covers several tests which are the basic interoperability test, stress test
and diagnostic capability test. However this project only covers the basic test. Due to
the delayed from PETRONAS SKG14, the Stress test and Diagnostic Test will be
postponed. Thus, the interoperability of the FOUNDATION Fieldbus goal is not
being accomplished yet. Other than that, this project also covers the loop design
using the DeltaV system by Emerson. The outcome of this FOUNDATION Fieldbus
test will be compiled in the form of standards and guidelines that will be
implemented by PETRONAS Groupwide.