 The new 220 MW combined cycle plant was launched at the Tyumen Heating Plant (HP) -1. The power plant built at the Tyumen HP-1 is the second biggest combined cycle unit in Russia. The newest combined cycle technology used in the project will allow to reduce the specific fuel consumption for the generation of electricity on the whole at the Tyumen HP-1 by 12%, improve the efficiency and decrease the number of hazardous emissions into the atmosphere by 2.5-3 times (for NOx).
The combined cycle plant control  system has been developed by PIK ZEBRA company on the basis of the integrated SCADA/HMI and SOFTLOGIC-system TRACE MODE and includes more than 20 operator workstations and more than 20 KRUIZ controller operating under the control of Micro TRACE MODE.
Mr. Anatoly Chubais, Chairman and CEO, RAO United Energetic Systems of Russia (the Russia energy monopolist), Mr. Pyotr Latyshev, The Representative of the RF President in the Urals Federal District, Mr. Serguey Sobyanin, Governor of the Tyumen Region, Mr. Ivan Matlashov, First Deputy Minister, RF Energy Ministry and other visitors have taken part in the ceremony devoted to the solemn commissioning of the unit.
The start-up of the combined cycle plant has been performed by Pyotr Latyshev, Serguey Sobyanin and Anatoly Chubais. Upon pressing the start-up button, Leonid Kogan, General Director, EMC-Engineering, handed over a symbolic key from the unit to Serguey Sobyanin who in turn passed it to Anatoly Chubais.
Anatoly Chubais signed an acceptance report and made the following record in the honored visitors book: "With all my heart, let me congratulate the people of Tyumen Heating Plant -1 and the whole Tyumenenergo with our common success and with one more start-up at Tyumenenergo. Thank you for your excellent work!"
The reconstruction of the Tyumen HP-1 has been carried out only at the expense of Tyumenenergo own funds. Totally, the capital investments into the combined cycle unit construction have amounted to 3 billion 400 million roubles ($ 119 million).
According to report by the Tyumenenergo official web-site. |
AdAstrA Research Group has released a new SCADA TRACE MODE runtime module, TRACE MODE Data Center, providing remote access to real-time control system information using web-browser via Internet/Intranet or wireless networks (GSM, GPRS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth).
New free of charge drivers for TOSHIBA TOSVERT series frequency converters are added to the TRACE MODE SCADA/HMI software and published at the AdAstra Web site for download:
On January 30, 2007, a new release of the integrated SCADA-system TRACE MODE 6.05 has been made available, both in Professional and Standard editions. 
The Krasnodar heat and power plant launched an automated control system for the 2nd power unit that was developed using SCADA TRACE MODE system and the RK-131/300M controllers.
AdAstrA Research Group, Ltd made available an external driver for Micro TRACE MODE 6 industrial controller programming system. This driver is designed to connect WinCon 8000 controller to sensors and flowmeters using a popular HART protocol. 
Like any software each TRACE MODE version has its life cycle and, after passing it, each version becomes “old”. TRACE MODE 5 is an old version. Its development was stopped in 2004.
AdAstrA Research Group announces the release of the long awaited product - TRACE MODE 6 OPC server. The new product provides access to the real time data of any servers and PLCs programmed in TRACE MODE and T-Factory.
