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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2015
David Lloyd Patin, Kingwood, TX (US);
Saleem Stephen Bitar, Spring, TX (US);
Raymond Donald Bartusiak, Houston, TX (US);
Dennis J. Foltz, Spring, TX (US);
Andrew J. Thake, Houston, TX (US);
David L. Debari, Pensacola, FL (US);
Richard J. Caro, Arlington, MA (US);
Dennis Lee Brandl, Cary, NC (US);
David Lloyd Patin, Kingwood, TX (US);
Saleem Stephen Bitar, Spring, TX (US);
Raymond Donald Bartusiak, Houston, TX (US);
Dennis J. Foltz, Spring, TX (US);
Andrew J. Thake, Houston, TX (US);
David L. DeBari, Pensacola, FL (US);
Richard J. Caro, Arlington, MA (US);
Dennis Lee Brandl, Cary, NC (US);
EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A distributed control system (DCS) for controlling an industrial process using a plurality of distributed control nodes (DCNs) can include a plurality of Device DCNs, each Device DCN including an I/O interface coupled with a field device for single channel input or output, a plurality of Application DCNs, and one or more Ethernet switches. The plurality of Device DCNs and the plurality of Application DCNs can be adapted to host a software runtime and communicatively coupled via the one or more Ethernet switches. The DCS architecture can include of two types of DCNs; Application DCNs and Device DCNs. The software runtime can be configured to selectively provide control application level communication and function block execution services.