The Ballast control system provides control of values and indicates the status of tanks & pumps as indicated by the customer and can be designed as per the requirements projected. It shows the suction and discharge pressure of ballast pumps, Drill water pumps and Hydraulic pressure. The system is designed with a central console on an important location of the vessel with remote stations in various other locations. Each of the control station has got their own dedicated PLC drives that control and monitors their particular valves for carrying out the corresponding operations. The system is also provided with redundant PLC panels for catering for any event of failures and the data is taken out on ethernet format and converted into optical format for onward transmission to the command station and monitored on the SCADA server which enables the operator for viewing the details on screen with action pop ups.
