Diseño de un sistema de medición de consumo de energía para el horno de arco eléctrico de la planta ANDEC S. A. en la ciudad de Guayaquil – provincia del Guayas – Ecuador.

Abstract

The present degree work provides a solution to a problem that had been occurring in the electric arc furnace plant since originally an old electric energy meter was used but it was presenting breakdowns and at times it stopped working, which caused stoppages in the production. The company's request was to enable an additional energy meter to the one that was originally in order to have a backup when the main meter failed. To enable the additional meter, the programming of several programmable logic controllers was redesigned in addition to the human machine interface systems so that the operators of the electric arc furnace can take measurements of the energy consumed, as a conclusion after having carried out all the work, the result was that the production stops due to lack of energy measurement were finished since there were two completely independent measurement systems one from the other that ensured having a constant reference of the energy that is being consumed.