Russian Nuclear Power Plants Run Safely with Echelon's LonWorks Networks; LonWorks Technology Controls Protection Systems at Kola and Novovoronezh Plants.Business/Technology Editors PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) designs control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ELON), the worldwide leader in control networking, today announced that the safety systems of two Russian nuclear power plants that use Echelon's LonWorks(R) networks have recently received safety agency certification. Supplied by control systems specialist DICS DICS Dutch Internet Chess Server DICS Democrats In Congressional Session Intertrade of Sophia, Bulgaria, the protection systems have been in use for one year at Units 1 and 2 of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant The Kola Nuclear Power Plant, or Kola NPP, is a nuclear power plant in Northern Russia. History The No. 1 and 2 reactors at the KNPP went online in 1973 and 1974, respectively, and are part of Russia’s first generation of reactors (the VVER 440/230 type). and since June 1999 at Unit 4 of the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant. Following extensive field qualification tests, the systems were recently certified by Groupe SEBIM of France to meet Class E1/K3 (French RCCE RCCE Rural Community Council of Essex (UK) RCCE Rescue Coordination Centre Edinburgh (see NRCC) code) and ANSI/IEEE 323 and 344 safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. for nuclear electric power generating plants. &uot;We built our Gardia-2 Safety System on top of Echelon's LonWorks technology because of the high reliability and robust design of Echelon's system,&uot; said Dimitar Dragoev, Managing Director of DICS Intertrade. &uot;Nuclear power plant safety systems must be available at all times, under difficult operating and seismic conditions specific to the application. The inherent reliability provided by Echelon's LonWorks networks complements the special voting algorithms, redundant power supplies, and extensive diagnostic routines we built to ensure that the system remains on-line at all times.&uot; &uot;From the simplest devices in homes and buildings to life-critical systems such as nuclear monitoring, power generation, rail and avionics control, networks of everyday devices powered by our LonWorks system touch virtually every aspect of our lives,&uot; said Michael Tennefoss, Echelon's vice president of product marketing and customer services. &uot;We are pleased to provide the network technology for the safety system of DICS Intertrade's Gardia-2 System. There is a ready market for the Gardia-2 System at other Soviet-era reactors, and we look forward to the day when all of these reactors have been upgraded to include robust, reliable, and secure LonWorks based safety systems.&uot; DICS Intertrade's Gardia-2 Safety System is a triply redundant LonWorks network intended for use in high pressure nuclear and fossil fuel fossil fuel: see energy, sources of; fuel. fossil fuel Any of a class of materials of biologic origin occurring within the Earth's crust that can be used as a source of energy. Fossil fuels include coal, petroleum, and natural gas. power stations that provides control and diagnostics of safety valves, pressurizers, and steam generators. The Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which is located on the shores of a lake north of the polar circle, contains four VVER-440 reactor units, with a total generating capacity of 1760 MW. The Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant, the first Russian VVER VVER Voda-Vodyanoi Energetichesky Reaktor (Russian: Pressurized Water Reactor) plant, is located at the picturesque bend of the Don River, 42 km away from Voronezh. The plant produces enough energy to cover up to 90% of the demand in the surrounding region. About Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation is the developer of LonWorks networks, recognized internationally as a standard for open, interoperable control networks. With thousands of application developers and millions of devices installed worldwide, LonWorks is the leading cross-industry standard for networking everyday devices in building and home automation, industrial, transportation, and public utility applications. Echelon offers a full range of off-the-shelf hardware and software products to support the development, installation and management of intelligent, open and interoperable control networks. Products that have been verified to conform to Echelon's LonMark(R) interoperability guidelines are eligible to carry the LonMark logo, an indicator that a product has been designed to interoperate over a LonWorks network. Echelon is based in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , with international offices in China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Further information can be found at http://www.echelon.com. Further information about the LonMark Interoperability Association can be found at http://www.lonmark.org. About DICS Intertrade DICS Intertrade Ltd. is a systems integrator specializing in the design and supply of process control, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems for business and industry, with a special focus on nuclear power plants and refineries. Established in 1991, the company develops and installs complete control systems for customers in Bulgaria, Russia, and France. DICS Intertrade meets ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 standards and its Quality Control System is certified by the British Standards Institution (BSI BSI - British Standards Institute ). DICS Intertrade is based in Sophia, Bulgaria. Further information can be found at http://www.dicsintertrade.com. Note to Editors: Echelon, LonWorks, LonMark, the LonMark logo and the Echelon logo are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the U.S. and other countries. Other marks belong to their respective holders. |
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