Im a student having trouble with a Municipal Water Managment System Project......Help please !!!

[Simone 27]

I want to simulate a resivoir tank being filled from the water from the roofs of 10 houses and it in turn being filtered, chlorine added, fluoride added, alarms, controls for pressure, leak detection, ph levels etc......

[tbob]

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Simone 27 wrote:
I want to simulate a resivoir tank being filled from the water from the roofs of 10 houses and it in turn being filtered, chlorine added, fluoride added, alarms, controls for pressure, leak detection, ph levels etc......

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... and you don't know where to start.  I feel your pain.  What would you do if you had to draw it on paper?  You could draw 10 houses, or you could draw 10 tanks to simulate the rain being collected.  I think the tanks would be more appropriate.  So start with creating 10 tanks on your front panel.  Each tank should have properties, like volume of water, pH level, chlorine level, etc.  Sounds like a Labview cluster to me.  Are you starting to get the idea?  Produce something first, then ask questions about your implementation later.

[Simone 27]

Thanks for the reply 🙂

I'll start small, any ideas on how to link a main resivoir tank to a house tank so that when the house tank gets to to 1/4 full it's topped up by the main one.

I have two tanks and an control knob controling the levelsof the house tank but not much else i'm afraid .

[GovBob]

Do you have the DSC toolkit? Go to help>>find examples and type in "tanks". There is some great code in there to get you started.

Hope this helps.

(Datalogging and Supervisory Control)

[tbob]

Are you using tags and limits for each tag?  If tag reaches lower limit, turn on pump.  If tag reaches high limit, turn off pump.  When pump is on, increment tank level.  Just think in normal terms of what you would do if you controlled it manually.  This should help in your design.

You need to make some sort of effort yourself.  We are here to help, but we won't do your homework for you.

[Ray.R]

I'm in deep trouble for posting this...

 

Message Edited by Ray.R on 04-30-2010 02:02 PM

[tbob]

Hey Ray, will you do my homework for me too?

[Simone 27]

oh my god.....THANK YOU SO MUCH, I'm going to try to build it now 🙂 🙂 ..... xxx

[NIquist]

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Ray.R wrote:

I'm in deep trouble for posting this...

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Naughty, Naughty!  Is there a way to take Kudos away???

[Ray.R]

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NIquist wrote:

Naughty, Naughty!  Is there a way to take Kudos away???

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LOL!!! 

I did the code quickly and wanted to describe some of the steps..  All of a sudden a popup message appeared saying that I had to attend a 2pm (EST) meeting.  So I figured, what the heck, I'll post a snippet...    

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Simone 27 wrote:
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I knew I'd get into trouble... Not for the code but for the XXxxxxx that I'd get.. from Simone..  😉

tbob,  I'll do your homework anytime...   🙂

Simone,

You do have to understand the code...  That is part of the exercise..  Try to explain to us all of what is going one...  And hopefully you are not a 1-hit wonder to this forum..