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Upon entry into the 1980s, the country began to introduce the large 300MW and 600MW thermal power equipment
manufacturing technology. In 1981, China introduced the 300MW and 600MW thermal power equipment manufacturing
technologies from Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering Corporation of the United States of America, but not the
manufacturing technologies for the turbine control system DEH and so had to rely on imports. As a technical expert who had
dedicated himself in this very field for decades-Mr. Li Peizhi-resolutely decided to take the tough job of localizing the steam
turbine control system (DEH) for the 300MW and 600MW large thermal power units, taking the lead in the efforts to bring
about breakthrough in technologies of digital electro-hydraulic control systems for steam turbines. Hence, a cross-industry and
cross-regional research and production association under a collective ownership-China Electro-hydraulic Control Technology
Development Center, later renamed Xinhua Control Technology Joint Development Center, was set up in March 1985,
specializing in the development of steam turbine DEH control system.
Early in 1965, members of Xinhua Control Technology Joint Development Center already successfully developed electro-
hydraulic governing system for turbine low-pressure turbine oil and then successfully launched electro-hydraulic governing
system for steam turbine high-pressure fire-resistant oil in 1976. Therefore, as it has already possessed technology for and
experience in the design and use of power station steam turbine control systems in the process of introduction, Xinhua Control
Technology Joint Development Center quickly and completely mastered technologies for the design of DEH systems for the
300MW and 600MW steam turbines and successfully developed the DEH, MEH and DAS systems with independent intellectual
property rights within a short period of two years after it was founded.
The company, by virtue of its core technology, the steam turbine electro-hydraulic control system DEH for thermal power plants,
gradually built up advantages in the power station DEH field. The important position of DEH in the automation of power stations
has notably raised the status of the company in the power plant automation industry. In 1988, Xinhua Control Technology Joint
Development Center, on the basis of the DEH technology, set up a Sino-foreign joint venture company-Xinhua Power Station
Control Engineering Co.,Ltd. Developed through introduction, digestion, and innovation, the first homebred and fully functional
DEH-III system, together with the 300MW turbo-generator unit produced by Shanghai Steam Turbine Factory, was put into use
in Hanchuan power plant in January 1990. Compared with the Westinghouse W2500 minicomputer stand-alone-configured
DEH-II used for the evaluation units in Shiheng Power Plant and Pingyu Power Plant, this set of system represents a huge step
forward and has reached the Westinghouse DEH-III level.
The operational practice of this set of system shows that the localized, optimized design of the DEH-III for the 300MW unit is
successful and can fully replace imports; in December 1990, the former Ministry of Machinery and Ministry of Energy held a
technical assessment meeting, at which experts concluded that the DEH-III system in China was used for the very first time, that
the development was successful, and that this signified that the Chinese steam turbine control technology had reached a whole
new level.
Since then DEH has been put into mass production to meet the demand for a complementary product of the 300MW unit and
exported to Pakistan as a complementary product of the 320MW unit, showing the Chinese brand DEH system with zero fault
performance. In January 1996, DEH-III for the 600MW unit was handed over to the power plant upon its passage through 168
hours of trial operation in Harbin third power plant.
At the same time, Xinhua Control Technology Joint Development Center, the later Shanghai Xinhua Control Technology (Group)
Co.,Ltd, continued the development of DEH and DAS technology and integrated the DEH and DAS systems into the Xinhua
control system-XDPS-400 distributed processing system in 1994.
With the development of computer technology and the ever-increasing demands for power plant used control equipment, by
applying a design concept called distributed control system, in 1996 Xinhua upgraded DEH-III to DEH-IIIA, a distributed and
digital electric hydraulic control system. DEH-IIIA is a real time control system based on decentralized control for steam turbine-
generator units in power stations. Its hydraulic part utilizes high-pressure fire-resistant oil electro-hydraulic servo control system
EH. The Electro-hydraulic control system consisting of DEH-IIIA and EH achieves real-time control on turbine speed and load by
controlling the openings of main throttle valves and of governing valves of the steam turbine.
With the expansion in the application and functions of the DEH-IIIA system, a steam turbine island control system is formed,
with functions covering DEH, MEH, BPC, ETS, TSI, and SCS (steam turbine part) system etc; this system and the boiler control
system together constitute the power plant thermal engineering control system. The first set of steam turbine island control
system was put into operation in 1999.
From it's founding in 1985 to 2009, Xinhua Control Technology Group Co.,Ltd had undertaken a total of more than 1300 sets of
steam turbine control systems DEH and MEH.
According to professional survey organizations employed by foreign peers, Xinhua products enjoyed a market share of more
than 90% in DEH for thermal power units and of more than 72% in DCS for thermal power units in years 2003 through 2004.
At that time, Xinhua Group had eight subsidiaries. In March 31, 2005, Xinhua Group transferred to General Electric Company
GE of the United States of America its controlling interest of Xinhua Control Engineering Co.,Ltd, a Sino-foreign joint venture (a
system integration engineering company) engaged in power plant distributed control engineering business, due to willingness of
the then foreign shareholder. After GE gained controlling power in Xinhua Control Engineering Co.,Ltd, Xinhua group retained
its own R&D team, engineering team and two production bases, and had R&D and production sites of nearly 50,000 sqm and
more than 600 employees. It retained a large number of technical backbone talents engaged in power plant DEH and DCS
business because GE had its own DEH-Mark V and Mark VI, Only 2 years later, DEH-V, which Xinhua XDC800 is taken as its
base platform, was launched based on a large number of applications of XDPS400 and DEH-III. DEH-V is an upgraded version
of DEH-IIIA, which covers the most advanced digital control technology and servo control technology available today, integrates
control, monitoring and protection functions, and further enhances the reliability and practicability seen in the traditional steam
turbine DEH system beyond DEH-IIIA, leading to more reasonable structure.
In January 2011, XDC800 platform-based DEH and ETS passed the SIL3 certification issued by the National Center for
Industrial Automation Instrumentation Product Quality Supervision and Inspection.
Starting from 2010, Xinhua Group resumed providing clients form power industry with DEH-V, XDC800 and relevant automation
control system products and solutions such as DEH and DCS with Xinhua Brand along with unique and all-around services from
Xinhua..
4. DEH-V Functionality 22
5. Characteristics of DEH-V 23
8. Application areas 26
In order to keep pace with the ever-demanding automation performance of turbine-generator units running in large
power grids, the digital control system DEH has been widely used in steam turbine generator units and so the DEH
system has become a node in a distributed control system DCS in a power plant. Whilst digital control systems DEH
are widely used in large steam turbines, digital control technology is also used in 200MW, 125MW, 100MW, 50MW
units and below, as well as in steam reheating or steam extraction units.
A real-time control system for steam turbine generator units, the turbine digital control system DEH is a regulating
controller for the turbine under starting, shutdown, and normal operation conditions as well as accident conditions.
With digital control techniques used to control the opening of the main valve and the adjustment valve, real-time
control on rotational speed, load, and pressure steam turbine-generator units can be achieved.
Xinhua turbine digital control system DEH-V is an upgraded product launched by Xinhua Group based on its
experience in the development, design, and industrialization process for DEH and the operation of DEH-III and DEH-
IIIA for the turbine generator units in power stations, representing another achievement of Xinhua Group resulting
from its constant efforts toward innovation. DEH-V covers the most advanced digital control technology and servo
control technology available today, integrates control, monitoring and protection functions, and further enhances
the reliability and practicability seen in the traditional steam turbine DEH system beyond DEH-IIIA, leading to more
reasonable structure.
Xinhua steam turbine digital control system DEH-V is composed of two parts: steam turbine digital control system
DEH-V and the electro-hydraulic servo control system EH.
Xinhua steam turbine digital control system DEH-V utilizes the hardware and software for Xinhua digital control
system XDC series. The hardware is composed of decentralized processing unit XCU, engineer stations, operator
stations and I/O cards of the XDC series. The software uses the XDC series OnXDC graphical configuration
software and visual programming software.
The electro-hydraulic servo control system EH is an important part of a steam turbine digital control system. Xinhua
EH is divided into two types of hydraulic control systems that respectively use high-pressure and low-pressure
turbine oil as liquid actuating medium.
Management Network
Human-machineInterface
Rotational
Pressure Speed Given Power Given
MW
Pressure Power Control 2 out of 3
Control
Rotational
Speed Control
2 out of 3
WS
Flow Control 2 out of 3 XCU XCU
Valve
Control Algorithm Management
2 out of 3
OPC
M M
IEP WS MW
MW
Reheat
WS
HP IP LP LP GEN
An upgraded version of XDPS-400, Xinhua Control System redundant input and output
XDC800 is a fully distributed, networked comprehensive ● I/O with separated modular structure replacing XDPS
automation control system that integrates computer, network, card structure, with no need to configure terminal
database and automatic control technology as a whole and cabinets
incorporates Industrial Ethernet and field bus and makes full ● System architecture with data stream technology and no
use of the Internet. servers
● Integration and fusion of industrial Ethernet and field bus
Hardware modules at various layers of the XDC800 system
● Web technology-based network operation, with the
adopt intelligent configuration. The use of an embedded
browser window displaying real-time information and data
software operating system (WinCE) and embedded software
to achieve remote transmission of files and data
programming results in a compact program structure, more
● Visualizable graph configuration and visualizable
concise code, and high efficiency in implementation, good
algorithm in configuration software
safety and high reliability.
● Control and management integration
● The management and control integration design concept ● The process control technology of rapid data processing,
● Advanced process control system for the whole which reduces the disk space and improves the historical
production process data query speed
● Xinhua controller XCU consisting of the high performance ● It contains process control, logic control and batch control
32-bit CPU processor as the core and is therefore adapted to the user's real demand for
● Turbine-control-specific intelligent I/O module with fully control
Remote process
maintenance
WEB Information RMISReal time ERP Enterprise Resource MCAS Production Cost
delivery server information system Planning System/MESP Statistics and Accounting Database server
roduction Execution System System
Remote process supervision
and control
firewall
GPRSWireless communication
Enterprise Management Ethernet (10M/100M/1000M)
Information System (MIS)
Firewall
No - realtime Data network (Network C ) Ethernet (10M/100M/1000M)
Network Printer
Telephone
Large screen
Remote Video Recording
Supervision System
Real-time controlDŽNetwork ALjB) Double redundant capacity Network
network Optical Ring Network telephone
( 100 M/1000M)
Network
Telephone
Wireless monitor
Wireless communication
Remote I/O
PLC Unit
Test Instrument
Frequency Converter
■ The XDC800 industrial process control technology was conferred the second prize of science and technology in Shanghai
City
■ The XDC800 have passed a good variety of international certifications standards such as CE/EMC, FCC, and TÜV.
■ The XDC800 platform-based DEH, FSSS, and ETS have passed the SIL3 certification.
In 2009, organized and sponsored by Shanghai Pudong New Area Committee of science and technology, an assessment of
"Xinhua digital control system (XDC800)" of Shanghai Xinhua Control Technology (Group) Co.,Ltd was conducted and attending
experts agreed that XDC800 is an innovative product developed by Xinhua Group with independent intellectual property rights;
as this product utilizes data stream technology, has a system architecture with no server and makes use of Web technology, it
solves problems in DCS system network architecture, real-timeliness, reliability, network communication bottleneck and remote
transmission, and has reached the internationally advanced level. The evaluation opinions are as follows:
On August 6, 2009, chaired by Pudong Area Committee of Science and Technology, the Committee of Experts conducted
review on "Xinhua digital control system (XDC800)" product developed by Shanghai Xinhua Control Technology (Group)
Co.,Ltd. The Committee of Experts listened carefully to the product presentation, reviewed the technical report, test report,
user report, novelty level search report and its own intellectual property rights certificates and other documents; after
careful discussion, review comments are as follows:
1. XDC800 is an innovative product with independent intellectual property rights developed by Xinhua Group; the
product utilizes a data diverting technology, a system architecture with no server, and the Web technology, and
through level retrieval, its functions have in fact reached an advanced level in terms of the DCS system network
architecture, system real-timeliness, reliability, network communication and remote transmission.
(A) The network structure reasonably diverts real-time data and non real-time data, ensuring the real-timeliness of
the system;
(B) The hierarchical, modular and standardized framework design idea, not only improves reliability of the system,
but also allows for seamless connection with other systems (including field bus);
(C) The new, separated I/O module structure is convenient for constructing large-scale industrial control system;
(D) The serverless mode of a distributive real-time data technology, improves reliability of the system and data
sharing;
(E) Visual graphic configuration programming technology, virtual technology, and Web technology have been used,
resulting in easy applications;
(F) Efficient process control history data processing technology has been used.
3. The product can be widely used in industrial process automation control systems for environmental protection,
electric power, petrochemical, cement, papermaking, municipal works, iron and steel, etc. Its wide applications have
important practical significance for enterprises in their production efficiency improvement, energy saving and
consumption reduction, emission reduction and efficiency enhancement.
To sum up, the overall technology of the system has entered into advanced ranks for the industrial control sector,
demonstrated superior control performance in general process control system, and has a wide application prospect.
It is suggested that Xinhua Group further improve the application level for the product according to the characteristics of
various sectors.
and protection functions, and further enhances the reliability control system DCS systems. The structure of DEH-V
and practicability seen in the traditional steam turbine DEH system is as follows,
OPS ENG
TCP/IP
100Mbps
Network C
Network A
Network B
ATC
XCU XCU XCU XCU
XLIOBUS XLIOBUS
xSV xSV xSV xSV xSV xSV xSV xSV xSD xSD xSD
xSD xLC xSD xLC xSD xLC xAI xAI xAI xAI xAI xAI xAI xAI xDI xDI xDI xDI xDO xDO
OPC OPC OPC
DEH-V consists of two sets the XCU with redundant configuration to achieve
basic control, turbine rotor stress calculations and automatic turbine control
ATC functions.
The structure of the DEH-V system has been designed with control-layer network and field-layer network.
Control-layer network XDCNET is used for real time data transmission between a distributed control unit
and the human-machine interface (HMI). In order to ensure the real-timeliness and certainty in system
data transmission, the network at this layer consists of three networks, A, B, and C. XCU and HMI devices
are directly hung on networks A and B to transmit system real time data in a redundant manner, while at
the same time HMI devices are connected network C to confine files, historical data, image data etc that
do not require real-time transmission to network C. The field-layer network IONET, which has a redundant
configuration, is used for data transmission between XCUs and speed measurement modules, servo control
modules and I/O modules.
With triple redundancy ESD technology, OPC is composed of dedicated independent hardware and
software configured with two out of three logic to achieve over-speed control protection so as to ensure safe
operation of the steam turbine.
■ Distribution functions
The XCU functions relatively independently; it transmits information via a communication network to realize
information sharing. A system structure with decentralized functions will improve availability of the system as
well as separating system risks, and thereby improving reliability of the system.
■ Redundant configuration
The redundant configuration of XCU; the high-speed data network connecting XCU and HMI has a
redundant configuration. The use of redundancy techniques improves reliability of the system and prolongs
failure-free operation time.
■ Hot-plugging
XCU allows online hot-plugging, making maintenance and replacement very convenient.
1.2.3 IO modules
DEH-V system entirely uses the XDC800 series intelligent modules to achieve specific signal
processing functions. A module is composed of CPU, isolators, A/D or D/A, amplifiers, over-
voltage/over-current protection, AI transmitter power supply, and DI query voltage, module
communication etc, which are used to indicate sticking process. DEH-V system modules
mainly include:
● The speed measurement module xSD
● The servo control module xSV
● The analog input module xAI
● The analog output module xAO
● The digital input module xDI
● The digital output module xDO
● The loop control module xLC
● The logic protection module xLP
XSD module utilizes the RDC8830 16-bit embedded CPU; it has characteristics such as fast
speed, strong data processing ability, and good compatibility with PC machine instructions.
Therefore, it has relatively strong software development means. Its maximum addressable
When the program memory FLASH ROM (AMD 29F040) is concerned, FLASH ROM solidifies a
32K execution program for EMON86 V3.21 and PI; regarding the 1M RAM with 621024 byte for the
data memory, this RAM is mainly used for program operation and data calculation.
xSD module is not only used for detecting the rotational speed of the turbine, judging the over-speed
protection and control, but also has a load prediction function and a power-load balancing function.
It can realize online operation over-speed protection test. The xSD module completes judgment
and execution of fast speed to ensure that the speed-up is no more than 7% when steam turbine is
shedding off load.
At the same time, in order to ensure that the steam turbine speed control and over-speed protection
system is reliable, the DEH-V system is equipped with 6 independent xSD modules, wherein 3
pieces of triple redundant speed numbers are used for steam turbine speed control, and the other
3 pieces of 3 redundant speed-in are used to carry out 2 out of 3 judgment for the purpose of over-
speed protection (OPC) so as to prevent to a maximal extent over-speed protection mal-operation
and rejection of operation.
The XSV module uses high input impedance instrument ■ The specifications
amplifiers and 16bitAD to achieve signal sampling; at the XAI: input 8
front end, electronic analog switch channels are used, while XDI: input 16
at the back end isolation amplifiers are used to achieve XAO: output 8
isolation between external signals and internal CPU. High XDO: output 16
performance AMD188 CPU completes a variety of signal XLC: 4-channel AI; 1-channel AO; 4-channel DI; 4-channel
sampling, processing, servo valve PID control, valve DO
feedback intelligent judgment and selection, and achieves XLP: 24-channel DI; 6-channel DO
the communication with upper computers.
Distributed real time database digital and historical values for analog at a global point can
be collected.
It possesses virtual XCU, online and offline simulation
functions.
Network Interface
Windows 2000/XP
Network-driven XCDNET
Logoff Logon
Start Double
Control logic
redundancy
XCU status display VXCU Double switchover
VCTRL
I/O
Air Lubricator
Liquid Level Liquid Level
Switch Switch
High-pressure Oil
Pump Outlet
Pressure Gauge Oil Return with Pressure
High-pressure Oil
Overflow Valve
Oil Return without Pressure Hydraulic
25-Liter
Energy Control
Accumulator System
AC Major
Motor and Pump
Pump Outlet
Pressure Gauge
System Electromagnetic Valve
Pressure Gauge
AC Major
Motor and Pump
The hydraulic control system for the 900MW supercritical steam turbine comprises 9 actuating mechanisms. Except for the
differences in Interface size and cylinder diameters, action principles are the same as those of the hydraulic control systems for
the 1000MW steam turbine.
The hydraulic control system for the 600MW imported-type turbine comprises 12 actuating mechanisms. The 2 switch-type
actuators controlled by the electromagnetic valve respectively control the opening of 2 reheat main valves. 10 servo-type
actuators respectively control the valve openness of 2 high pressure adjustment valves, 4 high pressure adjusting valves, and 4
reheat adjustment valves; they can have the valves controlled in any required position according to orders from the computer.
The hydraulic control system for the 300MW imported-type turbine comprises 12 actuating mechanisms. The 2 switch-type
actuators controlled by the electromagnetic valve respectively control the opening of 2 reheat main valves. 10 servo-type
actuators respectively control the valve openness of 2 high pressure main steam valves, 6 high pressure adjusting valves, and 2
reheat adjustment valves; they can have the valves controlled in any required position according to orders from the computer.
The hydraulic control system for the 200MW domestically produced turbine also comprises 12 actuating mechanisms. The 4
switch-type actuators controlled by the electromagnetic valve respectively control the opening of 2 main steam valves and 2
reheat main valves. 8 servo-type actuators respectively control the valve openness of 4 high pressure adjusting valves and 4
reheat adjustment valves; they can have the valves controlled in any required position according to orders from the computer.
The hydraulic control system for the 100MW domestically produced turbine also comprises 5 actuating mechanisms. The 1
switch-type actuators controlled by the electromagnetic valve control the opening of 1 main steam valve. 4 servo-type actuators
respectively control the valve openness of 4 high pressure adjusting valves; they can have the valves controlled in any required
position according to orders from the computer.
ETS system and DEH system are closely linked in that the ETS system completes protection actions through the EH component
and the oil pipeline. After the ETS protection system actuates, it must lead to an interlock of all the links of DEH. In addition to
being sent to AST electromagnetic valves to quickly close the main valve, the tripping signals from ETS system are also sent to
the DEH controller and the valve driving card at the same time to clear command signals.
Shutdown Signal
Shutdown Signal ETS Valve Valve OPC
System Drive Card Drive Card System
Shutdown Signal
Pressure
Oil
Servo Valve Servo Valve
AST OPC
Electromagnetic Electromagnetic
Valve Valve
Oil Oil
Motivator Motivator
Return Oil Return Oil
Steam
Main Steam
Steam Valve Adjustment Valve
Gear Detector
Turbine
Exhaust
A key part of the low pressure turbine oil DEH system is the electro-hydraulic converter. What Xinhua is
using is a turbine oil DEH system that uses a torque motor valve type structure and the DDV (Direct Drive
Servo Valve) servo valve as the electro-hydraulic interface.
■ Anti-interference measures
Digital photoelectric isolation and jitter elimination treatment
Analog isolation and digital filter
■ Self-diagnosis, self-recovery
Diagnosis to the module channel level
Screen-display of diagnostic information
Hot-plugging, on-line replacement
■ Reliable EH system
Variable constant pressure fire-resistant oil system
Redundant configuration for pumps, motors and control components
Oil pump outlet and return oil filter, air filter, and fire-resistant oil regeneration device
■ Load control
■ Rapid load reducing RUNBACK
● Automatic taking on initial load.
● Automatic adjustment of unit load
● Load limitation ■ Communication interfaces
● Hot load control for and decoupling of extraction steam ● The automatic synchronization, boiler control, and
● Main steam pressure control and limitation ● Communication interface with DCS
● Standard communication interface
■ Valve test
● Valve tightness test ■ Self-diagnosis
■ Droop: 5% (3%-6% adjustable); local droop: stepless adjustable, ranging from 3% to 20000%
DEH-V system is a new generation of network-based digital control systems developed by Xinhua
Group based on design, research and development experience and operation practice gained through
China's first set of AEH system in 1975 and its first set of DEH system in 1990.
The multi-layer and redundant structure of the DEH-V system ensures reliability of the steam turbine
control system. With hardware designed with high reliability and embedded specialized control
algorithms, redundant Ethernet communication network, and IE browser-mode interface, the system
is suitable for control of large, medium and small turbine-generator units, an advanced steam turbine
control system for power plants.
Xinhua Group is the only manufacturer in the world that produces both DEH and EH at the same time;
each set of DEH and EH leaves the factory only after they have been debugged to ensure smooth
start-up and operation of steam turbines.
Contact us:
Shanghai Xinhua Control Technology (Group) Co.,Ltd
25th Floor, Charity Mansion, 88 North Caoxi Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai City
Telephone: 021-54253038
Fax: 021-54252999
Website: www.xinhuagroup.com
Contacts
Shanghai Xinhua Control Technology (Group) Co.,Ltd Shanghai Lehua Electronic Science & Technology
Add: 25F, 88 Norch Caoxi Rd, Xuhui, Shanghai Development Co.,Ltd
Zipcode: 200030 (Specializing in Overseas Power Plant Projects)
Xinhua Automation Science & Technology (Shanghai) Shanghai Pengyu Science & Technology Development
Co.,Ltd Co.,Ltd
(R&D Center, Engineering Center and Manufacturing Center of Add: Rm 1510, Yongsheng Mansion, 2025 South Zhongshan Rd,
http://www.xhpengyu.com
http://www.xhelec.com
2011 July