PLC based Smart Controller for PST in Al-Rustumyah Waste Water Treatment Plant

Authors

  • Malak A. Dawood Department of Computer Engineering, Al-Iraqia University, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Mehdi J. Marie Al-Zawraa State Company, Ministry of Industry and Minerals, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Satea H. Al-Najjar Department of Network and Cypersecurity Engineering, Al-Iraqia University, Baghdad, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58564/IJCCN.2.1.2026.15

Abstract

The ubiquitous employment of new technologies in control applications opened the era of smart control systems. In this project, the programmable logic controller (PLC) used to update the traditional (by relays) control units in the primary settling tank (PST) in the Al-Rustumyah North wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Baghdad city. The control methodology depended on the capabilities of the software and hardware of this industrial computer. The existing control facility used to control the process of depends on the control by the old methods. This work started firstly with comprehensive investigations of the old control philosophy designed according to the process requirements of the whole plant (WWTP). The treatment of the wastewater in this stage is very important because it may cause malfunctions in the next stages. Secondly, new hardware components had been chosen with associated software and programs had been built using DELTA systems with a human machine interfaces (HMI). The new system and enhanced control methodology reduced the power consumption to approximately 30% and the size of the board to 40%. The smart control system for this task had performed by utilizing the DELTA controller to control the whole process efficiently.

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2026-04-23

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Malak A. Dawood, Mehdi J. Marie, & Satea H. Al-Najjar. (2026). PLC based Smart Controller for PST in Al-Rustumyah Waste Water Treatment Plant. Iraqi Journal of Communications and Computer Networks, 2(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.58564/IJCCN.2.1.2026.15

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