Power Plant Automatic Trip and Synchronization Push SMS

Abstract

During normal power plant operation, communication plays a very vital role, when there is a system fault or even a scheduled outage, this information needs to be passed to supervisors and maintenance team, but due to the complexity and challenges that result from this processes at times there is delayed communication that in turn results to prolonged downtime of the unit. An automatic push sms system offers a solution to this problem, this system is programmed in a way to generate a sms and send it to all recipients required .The sms is triggered by the opening or closing of the Generator circuit breaker (GCB). The system is programmed to send a sms when the plant has tripped and when the plant has been synchronized. The current push sms is human intervened, one has to log in literally, type a text then send it to the people concerned. This is a challenge in that it may lead to delay, an operator may forget to text due to enormous duties after the machine has tripped or system (internet) may be down at the time of trip. The system will use a stable mobile network from any service provider.