Experimental study on effects of electromagnetic pulse on pipeline supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system

In order to study the vulnerability SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system and to protect the system under EMP (electromagnetic pulse), a typical oil & gas pipeline simulation system was built up and some experiments were conducted. During data acquiring, communicating and remote controlling, the system was under the threat of a typical HEMP (high altitude electromagnetic pulse) environment with E-field at most 50 kV/m. Based on the experiment results, we found that the EMP had some significant effects on popular pipeline SCADA system. Some basic regular analysis was also performed, the effect phenomenon was observed and the effect threshold data were recorded.