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Common Programming Tools

for all Drives and Automation

The new PEC family provides a single architecture for all drives in which the essential features are

implemented using common technologies, including:

• Pentium class processor operating at 32-bit with floating point calculations

• Common operating system, used by both drives and automation

• IEC 61131-3 programming with Function Block Diagram as the core language

• Common control structure built from a common library of function blocks

• Common programming tools

• Common HMI systems

• Communication interfaces including all popular fieldbusses

• All hardware, software and communication interfaces based upon industry standards

Flexibility and Options

Optional features can extend the functionality of all controllers in the family:

• Enhancement processors Pentium class or digital signal processor DSP

• Extendable user I/O

• Fieldbus options including WorldFIP,Profibus, Interbus, Ethernet, etc

Innovative Concepts

To satisfy the diverse requirements of its extensive range of available speed drives,

ALSTOM has a range of controllers available from 16-bit, fixed point, embedded

software versions to 32-bit floating point versions.

ALSTOM recently developed a new power electronic controller family (PEC) that ranges

from single card units (standard or advanced) for products and small systems to modular,

rack based arrangements, suitable for the most complex applications.

ALSTOM has embarked on a programme to make the PEC family available for all of its solutions.

The advantages that the PEC family will bring to the user are numerous, some features are highlighted

below.

Diagnostics and History

Records

Because the entire controller family is fully integrated, diagnostics is significantly enhanced.

All controllers in the range offer:

• Extremely powerful yet flexible history recording to enable analysis after a fault condition.

The data is exportable to common file formats for analysis by third party tools

• Extensive status monitoring of alarms, trips, and user defined events

• Tele-diagnostics / Tele-maintenance Diagnostics data can be viewed or extracted 

sing one of several common tools, including a Drive Data ManagerTM keypad,

a PC based visualisation package, or a central programming console(for a large system).

Recent innovations in drive solutions include:

a new type of electric propulsion that mounts the motor in an under-ship pod;

a 19MVA, 4.2kV an IGBT propulsion converter and motor for electric warship;

100MVA converters for pumped storage systems;

and 15MVA, 50Hz, three phase to single phase traction supply converters with

Active Energy Management.

For systems integrators, who need high-quality drive components to

build into their own drive solutions,ALSTOM’s range of drives also includes low voltage

drive modules, inverters, and rectifiers up to 3.6MW.

From simple to complex requirements from 200V fans or pump drives of a few kilowatts,

to large conveyor drives with sinusoidal current return to the mains supply, to a medium

voltage drive up to10kV output without any transformer

– ALSTOM’s drive range provides the solution.

And for special drive applications, customised products and solutions are available on request.

Standardised Equipments

DC drives from 7.5kW to 25MW (customised drives above 750kW) AC drives for low voltage

induction motors from 0.25kVA to 5MVA AC drives for medium voltage induction motors

from 300kVA to 25MVA AC drives for synchronous or wound rotor motors from 0.25kW to 100MVA

With more than 100 years of experience in installed drive power, ALSTOM is a recognised leader in

the industry, providing reliable high quality drives- produced at advanced manufacturing facilities in

France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States- for all industrial sectors in most countries of the

world.

ALSTOM’s broad product line ranges from simple off-the-shelf low voltage drives at only 0.25kW,

up to the lar gest available engineered drives of over 100MW. And, because the company incorporates

its own drives into other manufactured equipment and systems, years of user experience addition,

manufactures large motors and generators.

Standardised Equipments

DC drives from 7.5kW to 25MW (customised drives above 750kW) AC drives for low voltage

induction motors from 0.25kVA to 5MVA AC drives for medium voltage induction motors

from 300kVA to 25MVA AC drives for synchronous or wound rotor motors from 0.25kW to 100MVA

Applications include:

• Cement mills, crushers

• Compressors

• Conveyors

• Cranes

• Extruders, mixers

• Fans and pumps

• Machine tools

• Marine propulsion

• Metal rolling mills

• Mine hoists

• Paper making

• Presses

• Process lines

• Rolling roads

• Test benches

• Wind tunnels

• Wind turbines

Investing in the Future

ALSTOM Power Conversion invests more than five percent of its industrial control revenues

in research and development to ensure that its products and technologies are always

on the cutting edge, and that its power electronic and automation solutions are the most

advanced in the world. The R&D effort in automation, drive systems and power electronics is

divided between a common development center in Paris and selected operating units in four

countries.

Research in power electronics is handled by a dedicated ALSTOM power electronics research team.

Hardware and software products developed through this process are marketed under the ALSPATM

trademark. Each one benefits from ALSTOM’s hands-on experience in the field, and from an ongoing

commitment to the continued development of increasingly more competitive, more reliable, and

more open solutions for higher performance.

ALSTOM Power Conversion

Extensive know-how

With extraordinary expertise in power conversion and an integrated global approach, 

ALSTOM meets the most stringent customer requirements for peak performance,

reliable quality, and optimum profitability.

The company primarily operates in three complementary disciplines:

• Power conversion with control electronics, power-switching devices and drive

systems using electric motors

•Automated process control in the electro-mechanical and electro-thermal industries

• Process engineering and modelling

Specialisation

For ALSTOM engineers, a broad based knowledge of electrical power management

is complemented by in-depth experience and specialised expertise in seven specific areas:

•Metals Production & Processing

•Marine & Offshore

•Oil & Gas

• Electrical Conversion

•Mining and Materials Handling

• Process Industries

• Industrial Power Systems and all other industrial applications where drives are essential.