The TENT A project, focused on flue gas desulfurization, is the largest environmental initiative in Serbia in recent years. It aims to mitigate air pollution, a significant issue associated with thermal power plant operations.
The Institute Mihajlo Pupin contributed to this project, providing a supervisory control system that includes the Atlasmask RTL process control stations and the VIEW 4 SCADA system. The system’s main functions are data collection, processing, and display, making the IMP system the “brain” of the desulfurization plant.
The project began in 2017 after years of addressing the flue gas desulfurization problem, aligning with domestic regulations and EU laws. The control system installed by the Mihajlo Pupin Institute monitors the unloading, transport, preparation of limestone, gypsum dewatering, and absorber operation. It collects around 7,000 digital signals and issues over 2,000 digital commands, connected by wired and communication links to the existing systems of blocks A3-A6.
The existing control systems at TENT are integrated with the desulfurization system, ensuring coordinated operation.
The entire system is powered by the internal consumption of each block utilizing the flue gas desulfurization system. The control system’s management algorithm is implemented in the Mihajlo Pupin Institute’s EDICOPT software.
