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Edmonton Section
For Further Information Check Out Our Website: www.isaedmonton.ca
September’s first technical meeting was a great success
with some 70 folks attending. Brent Mitchell of
Kemex provided some great insight into the damage
that water hammer can wreck on plant equipment and
endanger lives if not properly designed. Jim Gibbon ,
proprietor of Amber Brewing, reviewed the Amber
Brewing process and the need for better
instrumentation to improve batch consistency.
Consider joining the dinner and technical meetings.
These meetings are definitely not work and have been
an excellent way to meet other professionals in your
industry.
Early in October, several of our board attended the Fall Leaders Meeting in
Houston. We attended excellent presentations learning how to improve our
section, vote for the next leaders at the executive level and meet other ISA section
leaders. The Edmonton Section was awarded a Gold Performance Award for the
many successful activities that we conduct for members and local industry
including conferences, tradeshows, courses and technical meetings. Of significant
note, Dr. Reg Wood was awarded the Distinguished Society Service Award for
outstanding service and contributions to the Society and its Members. Dr. Wood
has been a member of ISA for 40 years. He has served in numerous leadership
positions during his tenure and has demonstrated dedication and commitment to
ISA by his continuing active involvement. Dr. Wood is Professor Emeritus of
Chemical Engineering at the University of Alberta.
This month we took the first steps to start a Ft. McMurray sub-section. If you are
interested in assisting, please feel free to contact Deepak Verg, Syncrude
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October 2010
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Section Events
October 25, 2010
Alarm Management
Jeff Gould, Matrikon Inc.
University of Alberta
Registration Deadline:
Thursday, October 21 2010.
November 23, 2010
*Tuesday
BP Safety Woodvale Community
League, Edmonton
RSVP Deadline:
Thursday, September 23 2010.
Stay up to date on what is
happening in your Section
ISA Edmonton Section
PO Box 190 Stn Main
Edmonton, AB T5J 2J1
Phone: (780) 960-7349
Fax: (780) 960-2732
Email: [email protected]
In this Issue: 1) ISA EDMONTON SECTION NEWS
2) COURSES: ANALYZERS, FIELDBUS SEMINAR, SPARTAN
CONTROLS
3) SECTION MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT & ABSTRACT
4) SECTION / DIVISION REPORT
5) RECOGNITION PHOTOGRAPHS
6) INTECH REPRINT— LOCAL SECTION AUTHOR
New Members
Welcome to ISA and the
Edmonton Section
Bradley Ackroyd
Roger Brilliant
Douglas Dmytryk
Gerald Friesen
Jerry Keenan
Time Lloyd
Shawn Martens
Jungwoo Shim
Alan Smith
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November Meeting– Nov. 23
**Tuesday**
BP Safety Woodvale Community League
*No December Meeting*
January Meeting– Jan. 24
Student Night for NAIT Students
Chateau Nova Grande Ballroom
February Meeting– Feb. 28
Enbridge - Liquid Measurement
Woodvale Community League
Family Event February
Telus World of Science
Oil Sands Conference–Mar. 8/9
Fort McMurray
March Meeting– Mar. 28
ASET Ptech Eng & Alberta Council
of Technologies
Woodvale Community League
April Meeting– Apr. 18
Canadian School of Hydrocarbon
Measurement
Woodvale Community League
May AGM Meeting– May 30
Woodvale Community League
Family Event June
Alberta Art Gallery
Please post this on your bulletin board so others may benefit from your membership.
Alarm Management
Monday, October 25, 2010
University of Alberta Conference Centre
2nd Floor, Prairie Room - Lister Centre (87 Avenue 116 Street)
Map on final page
Space Is Limited And All Attendees Must RSVP.
Biography: Jeff Gould, Matrikon
Inc.
Jeff Gould, Vice-President, Products, is Matrikon’s Alarm Management expert.
Matrikon Inc. is a leading world-wide provider of industrial intelligence technology and solutions. The company provides plant level information technology (IT) consulting services. Jeff oversees Matrikon's products division, including product development, support and sales.
Space Is Limited And All Attendees Must RSVP.
RSVP Deadline: Thursday, October 21, 2010.
Ph: (780) 960-7349 Email: [email protected]
ISA Edmonton Section
October 2010 Technical Meeting
~ Members and Guest of Members $20 ~
~ Non Members $30 ~
~ Free for Student Members ~
Networking: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:15 PM
2010 Section Events
The Next Issue of the
Contactor is November. The
deadline for this issue is
November 10, 2010.
Please send your inserts print
ready to Sandra Clarke:
Check out the article on the ISA Website: ISA Alarm Management Standard Packs a Punch
By Bill Hollifield
http://www.isa.org/InTechTemplate.cfm?Section=Standards1&template=/
ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=83592
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[email protected] . Look forward to
upcoming technical meetings in Ft. McMurray.
Congratulations to the UofA and NAIT student
sections for holding successful orientations.
Dave Shook - Student Liaison and Steven Dubljevic -
UofA Student ISA Advisor, were on hand to review
and explain the benefits of ISA to potential UofA
student members.
If you are further interested in assisting with the
student section, contact Ruben Gonzalez
Sheldon Weatherby, Museum Liaison and
Distinguished Society Service Recipient, was on hand
at NAIT to review the benefits of ISA to potential
(Continued from page 1) NAIT student members.
If you are further interested in assisting with the
NAIT student section, contact Jessica Carson
Our upcoming meeting on Alarm Management will
be at the UofA. Go green, eliminate the parking
challenge and take the LRT. If you believe you know
someone that might benefit from a discussion on
alarm management to improve how their staff
responds to alarms, please pass the flyer onwards.
Non-members are welcome.
See you October 25th.
Marty Bince, President
ISA Edmonton Section
Automation Week, is hoped to be the new model
for the future of The International Society of
Automation. Will it work? A lot of people are
betting that it will and I’m sure that it will be
successful because there is such a big world out
there. It is a world of new devices, new
procedures and new ideas.
So, where does that leave those of us who have
wrapped their ISA careers around one or more of
the technical Divisions of the Society? Certainly
the new format has lots of openings for your
technical needs. The changes that have been made
will create a new and stronger program filled with
the expertise that may have not been available in
the last few years. While many of us may have
been sitting still in our careers, and on our
projects, doing “what we have always done”, there
have been automation engineers, experts, out there
developing new and exciting devices and
methodologies to implement, direct and control the
processes that we may have taken for granted.
Additionally they have introduced us to new
industries and technologies which may have been
there but were sort of invisible to those of us
performing control systems engineering in the wet
process industries. That may have been especially
true for a number of engineers and technicians in
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Section /Division Report By Dutch Keen
We hope to make this a regular feature of the
Section newsletter with contributions from our
Section/Division Liaisons.
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UPCOMING COURSES AT SPARTAN CONTROLS – EDMONTON
Course S310: Fundamentals of Compressor Control
This 1-day course uses classroom lectures to introduce the fundamentals of compressor control.
Date: Nov 8, 2010 Price: $ 325.00
Course S140: Farris Safety Relief Valve Maintenance
This 2-day course uses lectures and examples to explain the correct procedure for Farris Valve maintenance.
Date: Nov 15 – 16, 2010 Price: $ 650.00
Course 2070: Advanced AMS Machinery Manager
This 4-day course is the third in our series of AMS Machinery Manager Courses. Gain hands-on experience through the creation of a class
database with example machines and collecting vibration data for problem analysis and reporting. Students learn to use the advanced
analysis and reporting functions of AMS Machinery Manager
Date: Nov 29 – Dec 3, 2010 Price: $ 2,830.00
Course 7025: DeltaV Advanced Graphics
This 4-1/2 day course expands on graphic topics covered in both the DeltaV Implementation, course 7009 and DeltaV Implementation II,
course 7017.
Date: Nov 29 – Dec 3, 2010 Price: $ 3770.00
Courses qualify as professional development credit for APEGGA or ASET. For more course information or to register on-line, please visit our
website at www.spartancontrols.com.
Registration Contacts:
Debbie Toonen, Registrar Pamela McLachlan, Education Coordinator
Direct Phone: (780) 440-5666 Email: [email protected]
Direct Phone: (780) 440-5659 Email: [email protected]
Oil Sands Automation 2011
March 8-9, 2011
Oil Sands Interpretive Centre, Fort McMurray
The organising committee is getting started on this event so if you would like to either join one of the committees or present a paper please contact Sandra Clarke who will forward your information on to the Committee members.
Section Meeting Tabletops
The Edmonton Section will be having a limited
number of tabletop demonstrations available at all
Section meetings this year. If you are interested in
reserving a spot at a future meeting please contact
Sandra at the Section office.
The map at the left shows
where the Edmonton office
for the above training
classes is located.
Directions to Spartan
Controls Edmonton office
can be found at http://
maps.google.com/maps?
f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=
+Spartan+Controls,8403+51
+Avenue,+Edmonton,+AB+
T6E+5L9&sll=37.0625,-
95.677068&sspn=48.68884
5,74.794922&ie=UTF8&z=
16&iwloc=addr
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All the best to long time ISA Edmonton
Section Board Members retirees,
Eb Mueller and Reg Wood.
On behalf of the entire ISA Edmonton Board, we’d
like to thank-you for your countless efforts over the
many years that you have volunteered for the ISA Ed-
monton Section. These activities were very important
not only to the membership activities and the board
but to the entire instrumentation, control and automa-
tion community.
We wish you all the success and hope that we’ll still
see you at many meetings in the future.
ISA Edmonton Section would like to thank Brent
Mitchell from KemeX for volunteering his time to
speak at the September 2010 Technical meeting.
the Gulf Coast area.
If that’s true for you, then you need to give a good bit of
thought to attending Automation Week and see what you
might be missing. Maybe you will find the information
about the new “widget” that you need to upgrade your
plant or process. You will never know if you don’t give it
a try. And, while you’re thinking about the conference
give another thought to attending the Fall Leaders meeting
which is the weekend before the automation conference.
There you will find a number of meetings that will be of
interest to you. All of the Divisions will be holding their
business meetings and you are most welcome at your
Division or at all of them. If you are an educator, you
know, a student section adviser, plan to attend the kickoff
meeting of the Education Division, a new division started
to promote automation courses in colleges and
universities. Who knows, you might just like an increased
role in your Society!
L.M.”Dutch” Keen, P.E. CAM
Section/Division Liaison
(Continued from page 3)
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Whitecourt receives superior drinking water
Water treatment plant upgrades system with new microfiltration treatment, PLC control systems, electrical, instrumentation. By Wally Ingham
Reprinted from the September
issue of InTech Magazine.
Full original article can be
found at www.isa.org/
The Town of Whitecourt’s Water Treatment Plant
(WTP) was originally commissioned in 1980 as a
conventional treatment system to provide a capacity
of approximately 6 megalitres (ML)/day. Its
treatment process included rapid mixing and
coagulation, a solids contact clarifier, three dual
media rapid sand filters, post chlorination, and
fluoridation.
In late 2002, the Town of Whitecourt selected Stantec
Consulting Ltd. to perform a detailed audit of the
WTP, which subsequently identified concerns related
to:
WTP’s capacity of approximately 6 ML/day
being unable to meet the Town’s current and
future potable water demands
Insufficient total clarifier detention time, mix
ing and flocculation, and recirculation rates,
resulting in non-filterable turbidity carry over
to the rapid sand filters at flows greater than 6 ML/
day
Insufficient chlorine contact time, primarily
due to a lack of circulation through the adja
cent potable water reservoir
With raw water Giardia concentrations regularly exceeding
100 cysts/100 L, requiring a Giardia reduction credit greater
than 5.0-Log (based on Alberta Environment’s 1996
standards and guidelines), the WTP’s 2.5-Log Giardia
reduction credit was determined to be insufficient
Following the detailed audit, Stantec was further
commissioned to determine how the WTP could be
cost effectively upgraded as it had reached its
capacity and did not meet current standards for
contact time and Giardia reduction. As a result, the
Town of Whitecourt became the first in Alberta,
Canada to install microfiltration pressure membranes.
The WTP upgrade became a two-stage, multiyear
project spanning from 2002 to 2009. Stage 1
involved baffling the adjacent potable water reservoir
and construction of a new distribution pump house to
take advantage of the new baffling arrangement. In
addition, Pall Corporation Microza MF pressure
membranes were installed in parallel with the
existing conventional treatment process, providing
the redundancy required for the Stage 2 upgrades to
proceed.
Since commissioning, in 2005, the Pall Corporation
pressure membrane system has performed exceptionally
well and has been granted a 4.0-Log Giardia and
Cryptosporidium reduction credit from Alberta
Environment and tripled the WTP output without
expanding the plant’s footprint.
Stage 2 consisted of pre-treatment upgrades involving
the conversion of the existing filter chambers and re-
carbonation channel to provide three stages of
flocculation, and adding Lamella inclined plate
settler packs into the existing clarifier. Commis
sioned in April 2009, the WTP now has capacity of
approximately 18 ML/day, even when raw water
turbidities are as high as 1,500 nephelometric
turbidity units (NTU).
Electrical, Instrumentation, controls updating
Stage 1 required the construction of a new dis
tribution pump house to replace the high lift pumps
in the WTP following the potable water reservoir
baffling. The new pump house is designed for four
125 horsepower vertical centrifugal pumps (two
variable speed and two fixed speed). Currently, only
one variable speed pump and one fixed speed pump is
installed. To meet the utility company’s harmonic
requirements, an 18-pulse Variable Frequency Drive
(VFD) from Allen-Bradley (A-B) was supplied for the
variable speed pump. The VFD was also supplied with
a bypass fixed speed starter in case the VFD developed
problems. Of the two pumps installed, only one pump
is allowed to run at any time with the variable speed
pump always the lead pump.
The new pump house is equipped with A-B ControlLogix
PLC with touchscreen HMI for monitoring and local
control of the pumps and communicates back to the
WTP via Ethernet link. Pump house instrumentation
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includes ultrasonic level, monitoring of the pump well,
discharge flow by magnetic flowmeter, and discharge
pressure. The pumping scheme is the basic pressure on/
flow off, with the VFD pump always the lead. The
fixed speed pump is equipped with a hy
draulic actuated pump control valve to
prevent starting and stopping surges.
The pump house has a secondary purpose,
which is to keep the existing Hilltop
reservoir full. The Hilltop reservoir used
obsolete Quindar tone shift telemetry
units over dedicated leased telephone
lines to the WTP to control the old high
lift pumps. During Stage 1, the Quindar
was replaced with A-B MicroLogix
PLC and phone lines redirected to the
new pump house. During periods of low
flow, and acceptable Hilltop reservoir
level, all distribution pumps are
shutdown and the Town of Whitecourt is
supplied water from the Hilltop reservoir.
At the WTP, instrumentation and control upgrades for
Stage 1 were provided primarily by Pall
Corporation in the form of a main A-B
ControlLogix PLC and remote drops for each filter
rack and CIP system. Pall Corporation also
provided the main operator HMI station in the
WTP office, remote programming modem, and
Ethernet router. This allowed the WTP to monitor
the new pump house PLC and for Pall to have the
ability to provide remote troubleshooting and
programming upgrade services.
A SLC 505 was installed in the WTP’s existing relay
panel to provide minimum interfacing to the old controls
required to remain under Stage 1. In addition to the
instrumentation supplied by Pall Corporation, the
WTP’s old Foxboro influent magmeter was replaced
with a current Rosemount unit, which could provide
a 4 to 20 mA signal to Pall PLC; and all Healy Ruff
float level units were replaced with ultrasonic level
monitors using the existing standpipes. The remaining
WTP pneumatic instrumentation was left in place until
the Stage 2 upgrade.time. The existing 30-year-old
motor control center (MCC) was retained with only
the old high lift pumps being decommissioned due to the
construction of the new pump house. To accommodate
the new pumps, air compressors, CIP heaters, etc.,
supplied by Pall Corporation, a new A-B MCC, with
DeviceNet, was provided with VFDs, starters, and
breakers. All of the new electrical and control
equipment were all networked together using
DeviceNet resulting in reduced installation material,
labor, and commissioning time.
Stage 2 of the WTP upgrade was when the fun began. All
the existing pneumatic filter controls, filter consol, old relay
logic, old annunciators, and decommissioned pumps
were removed. Additional I/O was added to the SLC
505 in the old control panel to replace the old relay logic.
The existing MCC was required to remain in place, but
with removal of old starters and rearranging remaining
starters, there was sufficient space to install six new small
VFDs, specially fabricated with DeviceNet interface, to
fit the old MCC for Stage 2 flocculator and chemical
feed pump additions. In addition, DeviceNet interfaces
were added to select existing starters such as the clarifier
rake drive, allowing control through the new Pall Cor
poration PLC/HMI control system. Finally, the old
annunciator alarm and status light boxes in the WTP’s
office were removed with all alarms and statuses
switched over to the HMI. Arrangements were made with
Pall Corporation and their programmers to provide the
additional PLC programming and HMI development
required for the final WTP configuration.
A Stage 3 had been planned, whereby the river water
Stage 1 distribution pump house discharge header with magnetic
flowmeter, pressure transmitter, and water quality analyzers.
PLC controls supplied with microfiltration membranes, which became the water plant’s new
centralized control/SCADA system (left). New operator HMI station replaced old
annunciation panels (right).
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Ethernet) is still being investigated with
A-B.
Overall, the project was a huge success, and
the WTP currently has upgraded
electrical, instrumentation, control, and
SCADA systems. The operators currently
have the capability to centrally monitor
their entire system from the WTP. As an
additional benefit, Pall Corporation
included a dial-in modem in the main
PLC, which has proved to be a big asset
in assisting the plant to refine its
treatment and operating systems by
remotely troubleshooting and modifying
the PLC operating program.
The major success of the Whitecourt
WTP has resulted in additional contracts
for microfiltration upgrades at other
WTP’s of the same vintage throughout
Alberta.
intake pump house PLC would be upgraded to match
the WTP PLCs once Stage 2 was completed. This
upgrade was moved ahead and added into Stage 2 and
consisted of replacing an obsolete GE PLC with A-B
ControlLogix, with a local control panel touchscreen
HMI communicating back to the WTP via Ethernet
using an existing direct buried multi-pair instrument
cable.
Issues, challenges
At the beginning of Stage 1, renovations to the existing
WTP, to prepare for the Pall Corporation
pressure membranes, it was found the
fluorescent light fixtures contained PCBs
requiring total fixture replacement. During
commissioning and initial operation of the
new reservoir pump house, the variable
speed pump was found to have a
vibration, of course just at the optimal
operating speed. Despite numerous efforts
and investigations, the pump vendor could
not eliminate the vibration. The solution was
therefore to program out the speed range of
the vibration in the VFD. In spite of this, the
pump operates well.
During Stage 2 commissioning of the
communication link between the WTP
and the raw water pump house, the link
worked fine, but the A-B Ethernet
module could not be configured to
transfer the data between the two
ControlNet PLCs. The solution to this
apparent protocol incompatibility
(signal conversion from RS232 to
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Wally Ingham, P.Eng., is a senior electrical instrumentation
engineer for Stantec Consulting Ltd. His e-mail is
Upgrade of continuous ultrasonic level monitors installed.
New MCC with variable speed drives con-trolled via DeviceNet communications with new PLC.
Wally receiving award of recognition for his contribution to ISA
Water & Wastewater Division at A&T/I&S Awards luncheon in
Houston
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ISA Honours & Awards Banquet - Houston
Reg Wood receives his Distinguished Society Service Award
from ISA President Nelson Ninin at the Honors & Awards
Marty Bince, Dave Robinson, Reg Wood, Wally Ingham.
Additional photos from the
ISA Honors & Awards Gala
can be viewed at: http://www.isa.org/honors
ISA Honors and Awards
Program
For hundreds of years, individual
accomplishment and excellence has moved
the industry forward. ISA believes that
recognition of these individuals should be a
priority. Our Honors and Awards Gala provides
an opportunity for outstanding individuals and
companies to be recognized for the work that
they’ve done.
Over the years, we’ve honored thousands of
important contributors to the advancement of
automation. At our most recent gala, we
honored dozens more.
2010 Honors & Awards Gala
The 2010 Honors & Awards Gala was held on
4 October at the Westin Galleria in Houston,
Texas, USA.
Reg Wood with his wife (blue dress), DSS Award and members of ISA
Alberta in attendance including Marty Bince (left) , Dave Robinson
(behind), and the Inghams (right side)
Dean Kamen & Dave Robinson
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Please post this on your bulletin board so others may benefit from your membership.
Alarm Management
Monday, October 25, 2010 University of Alberta Conference Centre
2nd Floor, Prairie Room—Lister Centre (87 Avenue 116 Street) Map on final page
Space Is Limited And All Attendees Must RSVP.
Biography: Jeff Gould, Matrikon Inc.
Jeff Gould, Vice-President, Products, is Matrikon’s Alarm Management expert. Matrikon Inc. is a leading world-
wide provider of industrial intelligence technology and solutions. The company provides plant level information technology (IT) consulting services. Jeff oversees Matrikon's products division, including product development, support and sales.
Space Is Limited And All Attendees Must RSVP.
RSVP Deadline: Thursday, October 21, 2010.
Ph: (780) 960-7349 Email: [email protected]
ISA Edmonton Section
October 2010 Technical Meeting
~ Members and Guest of Members $20 ~
~ Non Members $30 ~
~ Free for Student Members ~
Networking: 6:00 PM
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Presentation: 7:15 PM
Meeting Location
LRT Station
University Hospital
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