SCADA

Practical Exercise One (10%): There are five major sources of electrical power worldwide and four other sources that are not used widely at this time. Using your state?s electrical grid, identify the sources of electrical power used by your state and then attempt to locate the major power plants and substations. Try to identify the major components of these plants and substations. Try to establish the connection between power generation, transmission and distribution in your state. Compare and contrast

On June 10th, 1999 a gasoline pipeline ruptured in Whatcom Falls Park. This park is located in Bellingham, Washington where the pipeline was controlled by the Olympic Pipeline Company. This break in the gasoline pipeline let over a million liters of gasoline flow into a nearby river in the park. After about an hour and a half the gasoline in the river ignited and caught on fire. The fire burnt along the river for one and a half miles. As a result of the gasoline catching on fire, three people were

According to Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, every two days we, as a people of Earth, “create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003” (Siegler, 2010). Each minute, Facebook users share about 2.5 million times, Twitter users tweet about 300,000 messages, Instagram users add or post about 220,000 new photos, YouTube users upload an average of 72 hours of video, Apple users download about 50,000 mobile and other device applications, Email users send and received over

Due to results from a sanitary sewer evaluation of the Nebraska DEQ, the Papio Branch water treatment plant’s (WTP) must place a permanent flow meter at the site of the discharge point where flow is outputting to the reservoir. The discharge (decant flow) flow in the pipe varies from continuous to intermittent through the 10-inch gravity ductile iron pipe that is a free fall discharge into the reservoir. The discharge point is a concrete headwall where the Doppler wave meter will be placed permanently

opportunities to fine-tune procedures and operations to squeeze out every last drop of efficiency" (Marr, 2015). In utilities such as water, companies have implemented a network technique known as SCADA (Surpervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems (Iantovics, Radoiu, Marusteri, & Dehmer, 2010). "The SCADA system is used to monitor and control plant or equipment and is a combination of telemetry and

theoretical knowledge into a practical shape. Most importantly we have been given the exposure to the latest technology in the world of SCADA. This report is result of six week training that we having in BSES, New Delhi. Joining BSES as a trainee gave me a solid platform in the beginning of my professional career. We whole heartedly thank the company as well as their SCADA team for giving us the opportunities to work on the latest technology and bring out the best in us and developing our talents, not

The State of Illinois electrical grid consists of a variety of power generating sources that provide electricity to transportation, industrial, residential, and commercial customers within the state. Illinois leads the nation in electricity generation from nuclear power. Typically about one-eighth of the nation 's nuclear power generation, and about half of all net generation in Illinois, is produced by the state 's 6 nuclear power plants with their eleven reactors. Most of the rest of the electricity

potential vulnerabilities to national and state-level power grid. Besides physical security, computer or cyber security is also a potential method of security exploitation, as a variety of information related to data and network infrastructure or SCADA networks are available online. Boyd (2015) wrote in his article, Energy awards $35M to protect power grid from cyber-attacks, that the Department of Energy awarded two research grants totaling $34.7 million to develop cyber security tools and standards

One of the basic elements required to sustain life is water. Water is of extreme importance as the body cannot go without water for more than a few days. Therefore, the supply of water is a paramount concern amongst society. The availability of water is not the only concern. Another factor is the purity of the water supply. Imagine the catastrophic sequence of events if the water supply for a region were to be contaminated with Ebola or any plethora of deadly viruses. Following such a tragedy

The “Critical infrastructure, or CI, is a subcategory of infrastructure that includes those assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, which are so vital that their failure or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, governance, public health and safety, public confidence, commerce, or other societal factors” (Bullock, Haddow, Coppola, 2016). According to the 2013 US National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) there are 16 of these sectors and throughout this