Control room

(Also called the control room, control room or control room) A control station is a technical device ( guide ) that supports the people in the management of a process. It is part of a control system.

In this context, " directing the totality of all measures which result in a in the sense defined objectives desired flow of a process " is (DIN 19222 ). The measures are taken mainly composed of people based on the obtained from the process or from the environment data with the help of the guide. Setpoints, goal states, or certification criteria here can be targets. Therefore, a control station has one or more devices or connections to devices for measuring, regulating, controlling, displaying, alerting, Register, switching or computing.

There are control centers for the production, for the management of processes, manufacturing control for production line or manufacturing workshops, power plant, power supply, building and Verkehrsleitstände, Space transport ( Satellite / Space shuttle ), environmental monitoring and military operations. Example: Control of a Flak. This was, for example, For safety reasons usually a piece of flak away. Some big flak towers had separate adjacent towers on which were consoles for the flak. A command post is a kind of control center.

The design of a control station (or control room) requires great care. The operator (Operator) is to have everything in sight. All command elements should be easily accessible.

It there has been a technological development that can be divided into two areas:

• The use of discrete control blocks and control devices with the additional visual depiction of Schauf Ran images and alarm and signaling panels. The control room was so out of fields ( including controllers, recorders, signal lamps, control devices, etc., ) and also a schematic flow sheet illustrating the process context.
• With the advent of computers with the screens and the integrated process computers one task after another has been changed to this new technology. A modern control room has a desk with several monitors in general. Often the low clarity of the screen compared to the large and for all operators was simultaneously complains visible Schauf Ran images.

It is found today in addition to the representations on the monitors such Schauf Ran images.

Importance in the power plant

Particular importance is attached to the control room in the power plant. In it run as a central collection of all relevant plant and process engineering and measurements together, which are measured at different places in the power plant.

The transmission of measured values ​​in the control room is done because of the large distances from the measuring points and the electromagnetic fields due to electric signals. In the control room of a modern power plant today, for example, several thousand drives are monitored on valves and other machinery with their associated measurement points, controlled and regulated. In the nuclear power plant control room the comes as another object of the protection of the operating staffs from excessive radiation in the radiation protection field to. Because of the complexity of the processes to be monitored must be a power plant control room in a particular extent consistent with the principles of ergonomics.

The activities of the operators in the control room of a power plant requires a high level of qualification. It is taught in a company vocational training in the power plant, and there are for education and training a power plant training and simulator center in Essen- Kupferdreh where can be simulated up to the accident and GAU within faithfully reconstructed Wait for all operating scenarios of a power plant from the normal case.