Pumping Station

This product, designed in collaboration with teachers, covers a rich number of automation topics, particularly in electrotechnical engineering and automated systems maintenance training sections.

The didactic pumping station is a small-scale replica of a water distribution network serving a small municipality and the surrounding rural area, supplied by a water storage reservoir. This system was chosen due to: variable number of users, strong fluctuations in captured water reserves especially in summer, and a large water reserve since the installed power of the system cannot meet peak demand during these periods.

1 water catchment well (capacity 130 liters)
1 buffer tank (capacity 60 liters)
1 water tower (capacity 60 liters)
1 extraction pump group (stainless steel centrifugal pump, flow 5 m³/h; 0.75 kW)
3 transfer pump groups (stainless steel centrifugal pumps, flow 1.5 m³/h; 0.37 kW)
1 analog flow sensor and a pressure gauge on the extraction pump circuit
5 on/off level sensors
1 analog level sensor
3 solenoid valves
A programmable controller with analog and on/off inputs/outputs, a PID regulation block, 2 communication interfaces
An operator dialogue terminal with serial communication to the controller
Programming on multiple application pages and alarm pages
A digital frequency inverter
Power supply and protection equipment