OREANDA-NEWS. April 10, 2009. E4-SibCOTES’ engineers participated in the exhibition Advanced Automation Technologies Siberia-2009, held in Krasnoyarsk on March 18-20. Under the umbrella of the International exhibition a number of presentations, seminars and workshop conferences have taken place.
 
During a round-table discussion held within the event, the representatives from E4-SibCOTES voiced their view on the application of C&I systems for power facilities under the current situation when financial crises persists. The issue was discussed by the representatives from various companies, market leaders of local and national level. Most of the businessmen agreed that partial automation of outdated equipment would not enable achieving any significant results. That is why full-scale modernization proves to be crucial nowadays. This approach, however, is almost unfeasible due to Customers’ limited financial possibilities.
 
A contrary opinion was expressed by Vladimir Shorokhov, Director for Science and Development in E4-SibCOTES’ Branch in Krasnoyarsk. Having agreed that upgrading of outdated equipment is quite important, he still insisted that automation of even rather old operating plants might result in higher quality of control and improve economic efficiency and reliability of equipment. That appears to be significant under the economic crisis conditions. As an evidence of such an efficient approach Mr. Shorokhov mentioned the experience of the company’s engineers in C&I system modernization for six power generating units at the Nazarovskaya Power Plant.
 
The next conference day during "Automation of Energy Facilities in Siberia" event saw the engineers from Krasnoyarsk Branch making their presentations, when they showed this case study in more detail. Denis Kurochkin, a leading engineer, shared his experience in terms of microchip technologies implementation within the framework of the phased C&I modernization of 120MW units at the Nazarovskaya Power Plant. Alexey Maryasov presented a dynamic model developed for a PC-fired unit and model analysis results of the automated control system used for direct-fired pulverized coal system.
 
Specialists from E4-SibCOTES’ Krasnoyarsk Branch have been focusing on the modernization projects for power units C&I systems since 2003. Denis Kurochkin noted that the project philosophy was to integrate separate independent local regulating and information subsystems into a single integrated system. Such approach minimizes costs and enables controlling process parameters at full scale, including automatic regulation of unit frequency and capacity; managing control elements remotely; displaying equipment and instrument parameters, monitoring and receiving indications of process parameters deviations, keeping archives with all process data, logging parameter deviations, calculating cost-performance, monitoring and providing continuous diagnostics of sensors as well as DCS facilities.
 
E4-SibCOTES’ Branch in Krasnoyarsk has developed a dynamic model of a PC-fired power unit based on SIEMENS DCS. It is used nowadays to identify some new ways for power plant equipment automation. Models investigated in the laboratory have been applied at the Nazarovskaya Power Plant. “Model analysis enables us to study dozens of structures that reflect the most complicated operation cases within a very short period avoiding equipment shutdown, while trials and commissioning on site can take from several days to several weeks," emphasized Alexey Maryasov.