The Mekhanotronika R&D center in St. Peterburg is producing a new generation of cabinets.
In March 2006, the Interdepartmental Inspection Board that included representatives of such organizations as the Energoprojekt Institut, the RosenergoAtom, the North-West Interregional Distribution Grid Company (IDGC), ORGRES, the First Territorial Generation Company (TGC), the Leningrad Regional Dispatch Administration (Lenenergo), Gazprom and Transneft, made the announcement.
The new cabinets would house relay protection, automation, control, alarm, data acquisition and logging systems utilizing 35-220 kV power grids and electric installations.
As a result, the unique solution that does not have prototypes in the domestic market has been developed. The new cabinets' design ensures the improved structural and operational properties.
Inside the cabinets, relay protection and automation (RPA) LCD terminals without stand-alone controls and a panel industrial computer have been installed. The industrial computer provides for:
• more friendly human-machine interface to facilitate operation of the RPA terminals (LCD touch panel);
• displaying more information;
• processing and archiving information;
• maintaining event and personnel action logs;
• prompting messages and instructions for personnel to minimize potential human errors;
• analyzing emergencies and oscillograms;
• locating faults by several algorithms of any complexity;
• connecting a certain cabinet/a group of cabinets to the upper level of the automated control system via the Ethernet or TCP/IP without auxiliary controllers.
Due to adaptability of the relay protection microprocessor blocks subject to application, Mekhanotronika-made cabinets may be used at new, as well as at reconstructed facilities.
