A new level of Zagorskaya PSHPP hydro units control

Control system for Zagorskaya PSHPP hydro unit No. 3 has been put into operation by the beginning of 2012. Control system start-up has completed a complex of works on modernization of automated control systems for Zagorskaya PSHPP (a branch of Rushydro OJSC) hydro units No. 1 – 6, having started in 2006. SPC Rakurs was selected a contractor for designing, manufacturing, assembly, start-up and adjustment of automated control system software and hardware complexes for Zagorskaya PSHPP hydro units.

A long and very strained stage of Zagorskaya PSHPP hydro units control system modernization has been completed. It has been a transition to absolutely new level of equipment control for the plant, giving extra opportunities for creative approach in the work today and in the future.

The scope of work includes:

· Preprokect site examination;

· Designing of technical specification for hydro unit automated control system and modernization of hydromechanical columns of hydroelectric unit;

· Working out of hydro units control algorithms;

· Working out of draft project of SCADA level and unit local control systems including project documentation for system’s field level;

· Hardware and software complex manufacturing and delivery;

· Supply of control equipment and cable products;

· Hydromechanical column delivery and assembly;

· Disassembly of old equipment and assembly of new ones;

· Start-up and adjustment;

· Personnel training.

During five years SPC Rakurs has been sequentially replaced automated control systems of all units.