ЖУРНАЛ «СТА» №3/2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS CTA 3/2003 DEVELOPMENT/ Public Transportation 56 Automating the testing of linear electric motors on the Moscow Monorail By Mikhail Pertsovskiy, Aleksei Rtishchev, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Ivan Miroshkin This article examines methods and tools for automating experimental testing and test rigs, including for tests conducted in extreme, extraordinary conditions, and in dynamic and static modes. The authors briefly describe a measurement system for testing linear electric motors on the Moscow Monorail. DEVELOPMENT/ Public Utilities 66 Developing an automated process control system for a water intake using the MK-4xx series modules By Yurii Belyakov, Sergey Podoynitsyn and Aleksandr Kriulin ENGINEER'S NOTEBOOK 68 Normalizing converters from Dataforth By Valeriy Yakovlev QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 80 Forum on the CTA Web site By Sergey Gusev and Dmitriy Romanchuk EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS 82 Naval show during St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary Oil & Gas 2003: future of the Russian economy Intel + PROSOFT = The Latest Microelectronics PTA-2003: the main event of the year in the market for automated process control systems EMPLOYMENT 85 SHOWROOM 87 SYSTEM INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN BRIEF 92 News 21, 39, 86 REVIEW/ Hardware 6 Inductive proximity sensors from Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH By Yevgeniy Mozolyak This article continues CTA's series on products from Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH. This time we cover inductive proximity sensors, examining different designs, their basic electrical and physical features, custom sensor designs, potential applications and their usage. DEVELOPMENT/ Measuring and Testing Systems 22 Mobile measuring systems for conducting warranty testing on turbine equipment By Aleksandr Garkavi, Aleksandr Sakharov, Andrey Sakharov and Oleg Fatkov This system is designed to perform an objective, rapid evaluation of steam turbine equipment when conducting warranty testing and on-the-spot evaluations of the equipment's operational efficiency. The requirements for this type of information system include the ability to be very rapidly set up and brought online, to have the measuring equipment placed in direct proximity to working turbines in temperatures approaching 60 degrees Celsius, and to be used repeatedly at neighboring sites. 28 Control systems for power equipment in environmental chambers By Anna Dolgova, Maxim Ananskikh and Alfred Morenkov This article describes a system for controlling environmental chambers used for testing materials and manufactured goods. The system is based on inexpensive, off-the-shelf components. The authors examine the capabilities of the software tools used in this solution. DEVELOPMENT/ Machine-building 34 Building an automated system for controlling explosion-hazardous manufacturing processes By Sergey Usynin The author examines the issues involved in putting together the hardware and software for an automated process control system for use in areas at risk for explosion. DEVELOPMENT/ Electric Power 40 The "ideal" system for controlling a heat and electric supply station By Artur Arutyunyan The author describes the experience building a system for controlling a heat and electric supply station based on the SIEMENS S7 controllers, using the WM 1.3 SCADA system. The article lists the general principles for building a proposed system that, the system's developers believe, would be ideal in today's conditions for sites with more than 700 controlled parameters. DEVELOPMENT/ Coal Industry 44 Monitoring and processing equipment for non-contact controlling of solid fuels quality By Tleukhan Namazbayev, Vladimir Savyolov, Sergey Kim and Vladimir Parafilov This article cites the results of the development of a radioisotope measuring and processing device for non-contact, instruments-only control of the ash content and density of flowing solid fuels. Thanks to the unique design of the primary sensor used in the device, the system meets the requirements for high reliability while also demonstrating the ability to process measurement data fairly quickly. CD-ROM in this issue ICOS СТА 3/2003 www.cta.ru 96