Category: ABB

Flexible, scalable portfolio

Fast, accurate and uninterrupted control for small, mid-range and high-end applications.

Operating in extreme conditions

Wide operating temperature eliminates costly climate control

equipment and specialty sealed cabinets without degrading performance or operating life.

Compact, modular design

Sleek DIN-rail mounted design and streamlined vertical and horizontal mounting reduces

control and I/O footprint.

Smart device integration

Seamless integration of intelligent devices produces tighter and more reliable control,

greater visibility to device performance and cost-effective proactive maintenance practices.

Green, energy efficient design

Extremely low power consumption, lead free RoHS compliant build makes SD Series

the most environmentally friendly control and I/O portfolio.

Time-tested and field-proven

SD Series’ use of ABB’s best-in-class control technologies allows for easy and risk-free

reuse of time-tested and field-proven control application solutions.

Designed for total plant automation for a wide and varied set of process applications, the SD

Series features modular DIN rail packaging, a flexible, high-performance Fast Ethernet-based

plant network, and intelligent electrical and field device integration via PROFIBUS, HART,

IEC 61850. IEC 60870-5-104. DNP 3.0 and Modbus TCP communication protocols.

The SD Series also protects investments made in previous controllers, while delivering higher

performance, reliability and capacity.

From design conception through start-up and commissioning, the SD Series helps

reduce project deployment costs by:

• Minimizing DCS and extended support footprint

• Simplifying design complexity

• Compressing project schedules

Once in operation, the SD Series lowers total cost of ownership by:

• Increasing process reliability

• Minimizing equipment downtime

• Improving production yields

• Reducing maintenance and support costs

• Reusing physical and intellectual asset investments

• Enabling new products and functions to be added with ease

Introducing the SD Series

Flexible automation for a changing world

In our increasingly interconnected digital world, transformative collaborative

business opportunities are everywhere  – increasing productivity, improving

performance, greater efficiencies and smarter operations.

Consider in a typical production plant, terabytes of data is generated daily by equipment,

smart devices, and process and business systems – more data produced in one day than in a full

month just ten years ago. For plant managers in the power and process industries, the challenge

is to find a flexible automation solution that seamlessly adapts leading digital technology

for smarter, safer and more reliable control.

Introducing the newest addition to the ABB Ability Symphony Plus family: the SD Series –

a green portfolio of completely scalable control and I/O products that deliver a total plant

automation solution for your process regardless of application type, size or physical setting.

Energy efficient, compact, and providing a digital infrastructure to seamlessly integrate

smart field devices makes SD Series the best automation solution for your new installation,

upgrade or expansion.

SD Series controllers are the latest in a long line of ABB field-proven process

controllers and can adapt to a broad spectrum of applications and process requirements.

Configured by S+ Engineering, SD Series controllers feature an extensive library of

predefined function codes for easy building block design of complex control strategies

to fit any control application, including continuous, sequential, batch, and advanced control.

SD Series controller subsystems are redundant at all levels – CPU, power, internal bus,

I/O networks, communication ports, and plant network. Compliance with international

standards assures the highest level of reliability and quality needed to meet the most rigorous

global specifications and requirements. Together, they provide users with fast, accurate,

uninterrupted control of their process.

Further, SD Series controllers are designed to specifically address cybersecurity threats

as defined by the industry-leading standard IEC 62443. For example, SD Series controllers

are ISA Secure Component Security Assurance (CSA) certified (formally known as Embedded

Device Security Assurance, EDSA).

Symphony Plus Controllers (SPC) is a powerful and scalable controller

family for small, mid-range, and high-end applications.

Supporting all types of control requirements including discrete, continuous,

sequential, and advanced control applications. The SPC features include modular

high-density design, low energy consumption, flexible DIN-Rail column or row

mounting, and extreme operating temperature range (-40 to +70 °C) 

The controllers belong to the ABB Ability Symphony Plus Control and I/O family:

the SD Series – a green portfolio of completely scalable control and I/O products

that deliver a total plant automation solution for your process regardless of application

type, size, or physical setting. Energy efficient, compact, and providing digital

infrastructure to integrate smart field devices seamlessly makes SD Series the

best automation solution for your new installation, upgrade, or expansion.

SD Series controllers are the latest in a long line of ABB field-proven process

controllers and can adapt to a broad spectrum of applications and process requirements.

Configured by S+ Engineering, SD Series controllers feature an extensive library of

predefined function codes for easy building block design of complex control strategies

to fit any control application, including continuous, sequential, batch, and advanced control.

Key benefits

– Ensuring the reliability of spare parts

– Availability of spare parts at the lowest cost

Repairs

Fast and easy product support.

If one unit fails, it can be quickly and easily sent back for

inspection and repair at the ABB Return Center.

Key benefits

– Simple return process

– Troubleshooting at ABB manufacturing site

Replacement solutions

Migration to the latest product, or replacement of the entire synchronizing?

As a leader in synchronizing business ABB offers the

expertise and experience of alternative solutions for

synchronizing equipment, regardless of manufacturer.

The replacement of an old synchronizing device by one of the

active life-cycle phase is a time and cost efficient solution.

When a complete synchronization must be replaced, ABB

offers its customers a tailor-made solution.

Key benefits

– Improved system availability through reduced downtime

– Seamless operation of the plant

Product Life Cycle Management

Entirely service and support.

Our life cycle approach is based on the four-phase model

shown below. By means of proactive communication, the

customer will be informed by an official “Life Cycle transfer

notice” before the product enters a critical phase. Thus,

necessary measures for a seamless operation of the plant can

be taken in time.

Key benefit

– Higher operating reliability

– Reduced life cycle costs

Spare Parts Management

Maintenance for a reliable spare parts warehouse.

All components are suffering from continuous aging. So

also components for excitation systems and synchronizing.

This concerns not only the installed systems, but also the

components in the spare parts warehouse. ABB has original

spare parts and provides a review of spare parts at the

customer’s warehouse.

Key benefits

– Availability of competent professionals on short notice

– Increased availability and safety of the plant

Service Agreement- ABB Excitation Care

Increased efficiency and controlled costs, focusing on the core business.

The ABB Excitation Care – Service Agreement covers not only

our excitation systems, but also our synchronizing equipment.

In addition to customer telephone support, 24/7-emergency

support and periodic maintenance, ABB additionally offers

guaranteed response times and on site troubleshooting.

Key benefits- Support by certified and experienced engineers

– Unlimited 24/7 telephone support, 365 days a year

– Minimizing the outage risk

Training

Your knowledge is your future – the mission of ABB University

for Power Electionics.

ABB offers outstanding expertise for maintenance and

operating personnel. The SYNCHROTACT®-courses deepen

the basic knowledge about synchronization, provide product

expertise and enable the participants to work on the

synchronization equipment independently and confidently.

ABB, your expert for all services on SYNCHROTACT®-sychronizing equipment.

As your service partner ABB assures comprehensive support for

the product range of our synchronizing epuipment and

excitation systems over the entire lifecycle.

Installation and commissioning

ABB Services – reliable, fast and customer-oriented.

Our global service network with more than 100 experienced

and trained engineers worldwide are the key element for the

smooth and fast commissioning as well as for correct setting

of the synchronizer. A professional project documentation

enables the best possible support on long term.

Training

Your knowledge is your future – the mission of ABB University

for Power Electionics.

ABB offers outstanding expertise for maintenance and

operating personnel. The SYNCHROTACT®-courses deepen

the basic knowledge about synchronization, provide product

expertise and enable the participants to work on the

synchronization equipment independently and confidently.

Key benefits

– Trained personnel reduces downtime of the plant

– Increased workplace safety through improved knowledge of the users

SYNCHROTACT® Systems

Application

SYNCHROTACT® synchronizing cabinets can be designed specifically for customer requirements and are

used to synchronize generators and to parallel lines.

Depending on available space, other systems, as for example measuring and metering functions, may be

used in the same cabinet, in addition to the synchronizing system.

SYNCHROTACT® Systems

Typical configurations of a synchronizing system

The system uses proven SYNCHROTACT® 5-components

and may be individually adapted. Typical configurations are as follows:

1. Safety: Single- or dual-channel solutions

2. Availability: Redundant manual synchronizing or redundant

automatic synchronizing or both

3. Number of circuit breakers to be synchronized: up to four circuit

breakers, one or more of which may be generator breakers

4. Power supply: In case of redundant synchronizing, the

power supply on the cubicle entrance can be redundant too.

5. Synchronizing control: Remote, local or both

6. Adaptation of the measuring voltages: Especially with

synchronizing of several circuit breakers it may occur that the

two secondary voltages have different amplitudes and

phase angles with closed circuit breaker.

Examples of synchronizing concepts

Automatic synchronizing (sketch shows dual channel version)

including separate synchrocheck for redundant manual

synchronizing (with its own hardware and power supply).