OREANDA-NEWS. October 26, 2009. E4-SibCOTES’ engineers have participated in VIII International Forum Modern Technologies for Industrial Automation. C&I Systems for Power Industry Facilities that ishosted by Tornado Modular Systems on a regular basis. This year, the event was sponsored by E4 Group, IAES (Institute of Process Systems Automation), and E4-SibCOTES.
 
The Conference has brought together over 200 representatives of the engineering companies, process and electrical equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and other companies operating in power industry.
 
The Forum has attracted over 90 enterprises from 20 cities of Russia and Kazakhstan. Representatives of 19 companies have made their presentations on the state-of-the-art developments, applied for complex and local control and instrumentation systems. At the mini-exhibition the participants could learn possible applications of Tornado-N and Tornado-KP rackcabinets manufactured by Modular Tornado Systems (MTS)in C&I systems of thermal power plants, boiler houses and power supply network units. Another product from MTS to meet at the mini-exhibition was a MIRage-N industrial controller. The exhibition displayed the samples of Phoenix Contact equipment, Rittal enclosures, SCHIEBEL actuators, Tek-know metrological equipment, controllers from design company PSIS, EPLAN software, software-and-hardware solutions from Fiord.
 
Engineers from Modular Tornado Systems have made several presentations on the following:
 
•   Key operation principles of special-purpose control systems for heat power industry facilities. Comparative analysis of various distributed control systems and Tornado basic operation principles.
•   Review of DCS Tornado-TM development and implementation at the power supply network facilities.
•   Case studies of DCS Tornado technical support during after-warranty period. Conditions of DCS proper operation. Benefits for users of Modular Tornado Systems equipment.
•   Unique features of DCS field level arrangement, and its integration into the special-purpose process subsystems.
•   DCS Tornado-TM: main products and complex solutions.
•   Collecting and transfer system for data prior to alarm (CTSDA).
•   CTSDA Tornado at the existing and greenfield power generation facility.
•   Application-dependant software DCS Tornado-TM: architecture and operability.
•   Automated process control systems for 110kV substations.
 
Oleg Serdyukov, Deputy General Director, Modular Tornado Systems has made a presentation on a Company’s recent development - new generation DCS Tornado-N, which aroused the keenest interest among the Forum participants. Tornado-N is designed for development of C&I systems in power industry. DCS Tornado-N is a cutting edge scalable microprocessor control system, based on Ethernet technology that could be applied for both small-scale local and full-scale control systems. The latter can be used at power plants for power units, boiler and turbo unit control systems.
 
Engineers from E4-SibCOTES, an engineering company, have held their presentations on control system design and adjustment.
 
Denis Shebalkov, SibCOTES’ engineer has shared his experience in frequency adjustment of district heating pumps with bypass at the step-down pumping station No.10, Novosibirsk. The station was put in service in August, 2009. Modular Tornado Systems, E4-SibCOTES and E4-SibEnergostroy (all are members of E4 Holding) worked in this project. He gave an account of some complicated issues appeared during adjustment, and how he tackled them. This turned out to be very important for many of the participants, as these technologies are widely being introduced at various power industry facilities in Russia.
 
Andrey Yaroshchuk, an E4-SibCOTES’ engineer, has delivered his presentation on the automated process control system training ground that has been operating in the Company since 2006. The training facility is based on DCS Tornado equipment. At the training ground mathematical models of process control are used to allow us to arrange real – time trainings based on actual dynamic characteristics. Gas boiler and steam turbine models are currently being devised. Presently, the company is developing the training ground in terms of a multiplatform system with the state-of-the-art controllers from leading DCS manufacturers installed.
 
Other speakers who have taken the floor at the Forum were technical managers of Interavtomatika with the presentation on a new DCS SPPA 3000; SibVTI and EPLAN Software & Service representatives, who delivered their experience in CAD implementation; Phoenix Contact managers, speaking about new products for heat and electrical power engineering, and Promelectronika’s manager who came up with an idea of cooperation for the Russian engineering companies to be able to attain their goals better and at the higher national level.
 
The first day at the Forum was concluded with the presentation called ‘Typical Problems of Development, Implementation and Automation Systems Operation, and IT-Technologies at Power Industry Facilities, the Ways to Resolve Them’, made by Alexander Egorov, Chief Editor, IT Automation in Power Industry.
 
On the second day, Forums’ agenda included workshops in heat and electric power supply for engineers working in the sphere of design, implementation and operation of automation systems in the field. The participants had a chance to listen to the presentations delivered by representatives of IAES, E4-SibCOTES, Fiord, NPO Amaks, NORDIC HAVN ApS, Danfoss, Tek-know, SCHIEBEL Pipeline Transportation Systems, Sibinfocenter, a training centre, Research&Development Centre of Electrical Power Industry, Research and Production Enterprise Bresler, Research and Production Enterprise EKRA, Aviatex.
 
To name other important issues discussed at the Forum: DCS turnkey projects execution, upgrading and expansion of the existing control systems at the enterprises, C&I service maintenance, automated systems security and human factor impact on a sustained system operation, Customer responsibilities during control system operation.
 
The Forum’s participants shared information about the latest developments in actuator technology, metrology, software products, and diverse approaches to large-scale power industry facilities automation.