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TITLE : TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR SCADA

PROJECT : 1 X 50 MW SOLAR POWER PROJECT IN

MADHYA PRADESH

CUSTOMER : NTPC LTD.

PROJECT CODE : P019

** (Spec and quantity is same for P018 also)

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1. SCOPE........................................................................................................... 3
2. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION & SITE CONDITION....................................................4
3. PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC BASED CONTROL SYSTEM AT CMCS ROOM:............5
4. HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE SYSTEM (HMIS)...............................................6
5. PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONALITIES................................................................6
6. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT............................................................................ 7
7. PARAMETRIC REQUIREMENTS........................................................................7
8. INPUT/OUTPUT MODULES..............................................................................8
9. SYSTEM SPARE CAPACITY.............................................................................. 9
10. OPERATOR INTERFACE DISPLAYS/LOGS/REPORTS........................................10
11. Historical storage and retrieval system (HSRS)..........................................10
12. CONTROL & POWER SUPPLY SCHEME.........................................................10
13. CONTROL CABINETS / PANELS / DESKS AT CMCS ROOM.............................11
14. CONTROL DESK........................................................................................... 11
15. FURNITURE.................................................................................................. 12
16. SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION AND SOFTWARE LISTINGS............................12
17. SOFTWARE LICENCES.................................................................................. 12
18. TIME SYNCHRONIZATION AND INTERFACE WITH PI SERVER........................12
19. HMIPIS HARDWARE AT MAIN CONTROL ROOM............................................13
20. FACTORY ACCEPTANCE TEST (FAT)..............................................................15
21. DOCUMENT SUBMISSION............................................................................15
22. WARRANTY.................................................................................................. 15
23. SPARE......................................................................................................... 15
24. PACKING...................................................................................................... 15

1. SCOPE
The scope of work includes Design, engineering, manufacture, supply, Transport, erection, testing and commissioning of
SCADA System for 1x50 MW SPV power plants. The purpose of this document is to describe the technical details for design,
engineering, manufacture and supply of SCADA System for 1x50 MW SPV power plant for Solar Power Plants as per details
given below.Ref-SLD-P019-ELE-02

INVERTER TYPE INDOOR TYPE CENTRAL INVERTER

PROJECT LOCATION
PLANT CAPACITY 1X50 MWac 1X50 MW MADHYA
TYPE OF SYSTEM GRID CONNECTED SOLAR PV PLANT SOLAR PLANT PRADESH
ADEQUATE FOR 1x50 MW DC (CONSIDERING 1MWX4 or
QUANTITY
1.25MW x4 block)

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1.1 Contractor shall provide complete SCADA system with all accessories, auxiliaries and associated equipment and cables
for the safe, efficient and reliable operation of entire solar plant and its auxiliary systems. RTU for extending data to SLDC.

1.2 Bidder shall include in his proposal all the Hardware, Software, Panels, Power Supply, HMI, Laser Printer, Gateway,
Networking equipment and associated Cable etc. needed for the completeness even if the same are not specifically
appearing in this specifications.

1.3 SCADA System shall have the provision to perform the following functions:
i. Real-time acquisition and display of data, status, alarms and trends
ii. Display of status of major equipment in Single Line Diagram (SLD) format
iii. Control of switchgears and Inverters
iv. Display and storage of measured values
v. Display and storage of derived/calculated/integrated values
vi. Display and Storage of Alarm, Event and Trends
vii. Generate, store and retrieve user configurable Sequence of Event (SOE) Reports
viii. Generate, store and retrieve user configurable periodic Reports
ix. Remote monitoring of essential parameters on the web using standard modem (Internet connection for transferring
data to web shall be taken by Contractor in the name of NTPC Site for O & M period).
x. Control and monitoring of status of all the MV/HV/EHV Breakers and Inverters
xi. System self-supervision

1.4 It shall be possible to remove/replace online various modules (like any I/O module, interface module, etc.) from its slot
for maintenance purpose without switching off power supply to the corresponding rack. System design shall ensure that
while doing so, undefined signalling and releases do not occur and controller operation in any way is not affected
(including controller trip to manual, etc.) except that information related to removed module is not available to controller.
Further, it shall also be possible to remove/replace any of the redundant controller module without switching off the
power to the corresponding rack and this will not result in system disturbance or loss of any controller functions for the
other controller. The on-line removal/insertion of controller, I/O modules shall in no way affect the safety of plant and
personnel.
1.5 The control system shall provide safe operation under all plant disturbances and on component failure so that under
no condition the safety of plant, personnel or equipment is affected. Control system shall be designed to prevent abnormal
swings due to loss of Control System power supply, failure of any Control System component, open circuit/short circuit.
On any of these failures the controlled equipment/parameter shall either remain in last position before failure or shall
come to fully open/close or on/off state as required for the safety of plant/personnel/equipment and as finalized during
detailed engineering. System shall be designed such that there will be no upset when Power is restored.
1.6 The Control system shall be designed to operate in non-air conditioned area. However contractor shall provide a
Package/Split AC of suitable capacity decided by heat load requirement in SCADA room at Main Control Room (CMCS).

2. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION & SITE CONDITION

System Description

1 Nominal System Voltage 33 kV

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2 Highest System voltage 36 kV

3 Rated Frequency 50 Hz
4 Number of phases/ poles Three
6 One minute power frequency withstand voltage
for type test 70 kV
for Routine tests 70 kV
1.2/50 microsecond Impulse
7 withstand voltage 170kV (peak)
8 Minimum system fault level 12.5 kA (rms)
10 Dynamic withstand rating 2.5 times of system fault current
Maximum ambient air 50 deg. C
12 temperature

Site Condition

The SCADA system shall be suitable for continuous operation under following ambient conditions-

Outdoor General Conditions:

Max. Ambient Temperature 50C
Max. Daily Average Ambient Temperature 45C
Max. Daily Weighted Average Temperature 32C
Min. Ambient Temperature -5C
Relative humidity 100%
Average annual rainfall <100 cm
Altitude <200 meter
Atmosphere Tropical Dusty Environment

3. PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC BASED CONTROL SYSTEM AT CMCS ROOM:

Bidder has to provide PLC based SCADA at CMCS room as per specification given hereunder. Other requirement related to
PLC mentioned elsewhere in this chapter is applicable for PLC to be provided in CMCS. For other locations such as Inverter
room, Sub Pooling Switchgear Room (if applicable) bidder may offer IO modules/RTU/PLC for completeness of
SCADA

3.1 PLC PROCESSOR

The processor unit shall be capable of executing the following functions:-

a) Receiving binary and analog signals from the field and providing command output to MCC/SWGR/Drive etc. through
Input / Output modules and operator initiated commands from HMIS / control panel.

b) Implementing all logic functions for control, protection and annunciation of the equipment and systems.

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c) Providing supervisory information for alarm, various types of displays, status information, trending, historical storage of
data etc.

e) Performing self-monitoring and diagnostic functions.

3.2 PLC unit shall be provided with two processors (Main processing unit and memories) one for normal operation and
one as hot standby. In case of failure of working processor, there shall be an appropriate alarm and simultaneously the hot
standby processor shall take over the complete plant operation automatically. The transfer from main processor to
standby processor shall be totally bump less and shall not cause any plant disturbance whatsoever. In the event of both
processors failing, the system shall revert to fail safe mode. It shall be possible to keep any of the processors as master and
other as standby. The standby processor shall be updated in line with the changes made in working processor.

3.3 The memory shall be field expandable. The memory capacity shall be sufficient for the complete system operation and
have a capability for at least 20% expansion in future. Programmed operating sequences and criteria shall be stored in
nonvolatile semiconductor memories like EPROM. All dynamic memories shall be provided with buffer battery backup for
at least 360 hours. The batteries shall be lithium or Ni-Cd type.

3.4 Priority of different commands shall be as follows:

3.4.1 Manual intervention shall be possible at any stage of operation. Protection commands shall have priority over
manual commands and manual commands shall prevail over auto commands.

3.5 A forcing facility shall be provided for changing the states of inputs and outputs, timers and flags to facilitate fault
finding and other testing requirements. It shall be possible to display the signal flow during operation of the program.

3.6 The SCADA shall be OPC version 2.05a compliant and implement an OPCDA 2.05a server as per the specification of
OPC Foundation. All data should be accessible through this OPC server. SCADA shall have OPC connectivity for other
systems.

4. HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE SYSTEM (HMIS)

Graphical Interface Unit (GIU) / Operator work station (OWS) shall perform control, monitoring and operation of all
devices interacting with PLC based control system. It shall be possible to use the same as programming station of the PLC
and the Human Machine Interface System. In case the PC based OWS cannot be used as programming station of the PLC
and the Human Machine Interface System, then separate PC based programming station shall be provided.
Operator shall be able to access all control/information related data under all operating conditions including a single
processor/computer failure in the HMIS. All frequently called important functions including major displays shall be
assigned to dedicated function keys on a soft keyboard for the convenience of the operator for quick access to displays &
other operator functions.
The operator functions for each OWS / GIU shall have provision to be configured for Control System operation (A/M
selection, raise/lower, set point/bias change, on/off, open/close operation, mode/device selection, bypassing criteria,
sequence auto, start/stop selection, drive auto selection, local-remote/other multi-position selection etc.); alarm
acknowledge; call all kind of displays, logs, summaries, calculation results, etc.; printing of logs & reports; retrieval of

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historical data; and any other functions required for smooth operation, control & management of information as finalized
during detailed engineering.
The display selection process shall be optimized so that the desired display can be selected with the minimum no. of
operations. Navigation from one display to any other should be possible efficiently through paging soft keys as well as
through targets defined on the displays. There should be no limitation on number of such targets.
The system shall have built-in safety features that will allow/disallow certain functions and entry fields within a function
to be under password control to protect against inadvertent and unauthorized use of these functions. Assignment of
allowable functions and entry fields shall be on the basis of user profile. The system security shall contain various user
levels with specific rights as finalized by the Employer during detailed engineering. However, no. of user levels, no. of users
in a level and rights for each level shall be changeable by the programmer (Administrator). Wherever Graphical Interface
Unit is envisaged, it shall meet the minimum functional requirements of monitoring, operating & controlling the process
and displaying information related to process locally. GIU shall be provided with TFT active matrix display and keypad for
operation. GIU shall be ruggedly designed to withstand hard environments like high temperature, shock and vibration.
SCADA Software shall allow modifying dimensions of the SCADA screens without redrawing graphics Remote monitoring
of essential parameters on the web using standard modem (Internet connection for transferring data to web shall be taken
by Contractor in the name of NTPC Site for O & M period).
Bidder has to provide suitable hardware and software based firewall for network security to restrict unauthorized access
to HMI/Solar SCADA PCs and system.

5. PROGRAMMING FUNCTIONALITIES
Programming of the PLC Processor / controller as well as programming of HMIS shall be user friendly with graphical user
interface and shall not require knowledge of any specialized language. For example, the programming of PLC shall use
either of the following:-
- Flow-chart or block logic representing the instructions graphically.
- Ladder diagrams.
The programming of HMIS (like development and modification of data base, mimics, logs / reports, HSR functionalities
etc.) shall also be possible through user-friendly menus etc
All programming functionalities shall be password protected to avoid unauthorized modification.

6. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
All necessary software required for implementation of control logic, operator station displays / logs, storage & retrieval
and other functional requirement shall be provided. The programs shall include high level languages as far as possible. The
contractor shall provide sufficient documentation and program listing so that it is possible for the Employer to carry out
modification at a later date.
The Contractor shall provide all software required by the system for meeting the intent and functional/parametric
requirements of the specification. Industry standard operating system like WINDOWS (latest version) etc. to ensure
openness and connectivity with other system in industry shall be provided. SCADA system shall support following
standard protocols (included but not limited to) to communicate with different sub system/Devices
a) Modbus (TCP/IP, RTU, ASCII)
b) Sub Station Protocol like IEC-61850
c) IEC 60870 -5-101//104
d) Any other protocol on which the offered equipment (by Contractor) will communicate with SCADA

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The system shall have user friendly programming language & graphic user interface.
All system related software including Real Time Operating System, File management software, screen editor, database
management software. On line diagnostics/debug software, peripheral drivers software and latest versions of standard PC-
based software and latest WINDOWS based packages etc. and any other standard language offered shall be furnished as a
minimum.
All application software for PLC system functioning like input scanning, acquisition, conditioning processing, control and
communication and software for operator interface of monitors, displays, trends, curves, bar charts etc. Historical storage
and retrieval utility, and alarm functions shall be provided.
The Contractor shall provide software locks and passwords to Employers engineers at site for all operating & application
software so that Employers engineers can take backup of these software and are able to do modifications at site.

7. PARAMETRIC REQUIREMENTS
The control system shall be designed such that under worst case
loading conditions the response time shall not be worse than the
following:-
On/Off Command The response time for screen update after the execution of the
control command from the time the command is issued shall
be two seconds (excluding the drive actuation time).
Adjustment Command 0.5 to 1 second.
On screen Updating 1 second.
All Control related displays 1 second.
Bar Chart displays 2 to 3 seconds.
Plant Mimic displays 2 to 3 seconds.
Group review displays 2 to 3 seconds.
X-T Plot Displays 1 to 2 seconds.
Plant Summary Displays 1 to 2 seconds.
Even under worst case loading condition of HMIS and system Bus, each HMIS processor shall have 50 % spare time when
measured over any one minute period and the system bus shall have at least 50 % spare duty cycle.

8. INPUT/OUTPUT MODULES
The PLC system should be designed according to the location of the input/output cabinets as specified.
Input Output modules, as required in the Control System for all type of field input signals (4-20 mA, non-
changeover/change over type of contact inputs etc.) and outputs from the control system (non change over/change over
type of contact, output signals for energizing interface relays at suitable DC voltage as decided during detail engineering, 4-
20 mA output etc.) are to be provided by the Contractor.
Electrical isolation of 1.5kV with optical couplers between the plant input/output and controller shall be provided on the
I/O cards. The isolation shall ensure that any inadvertent voltage or voltage spikes (as may be encountered in a plant of
this nature) shall not damage or mal-operate the internal processing equipment.
The Input/output system shall facilitate modular expansion in fixed stages. The individual input/output cards shall
incorporate indications on the module front panels for displaying individual signal status.
Individually fused output circuits with the blower fuse indicator shall be provided. All input/output points shall be

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provided with status indicator. Input circuits shall be provided with fuses preferably for each input, alternatively suitable
combination of inputs shall be done and provided with fuses such that for any fault, fuse failure shall affect the particular
drive system only without affecting other systems.
All input/output cards shall have quick disconnect terminations allowing for card replacement without disconnection of
external wiring and without switching of power supply.
The I/O Module shall have the following features
a) Power supply monitoring
b) Contact bounce filtering
c) Optical isolation between input and output signals with the internal circuits
d) In case of power supply failure or hardware fault, the critical outputs shall be automatically switched to the
fail-safe mode. The fail-safe mode shall be finalized during detailed engineering.
Binary Output modules shall be rated to switch ON/OFF coupling relays of approx. 3 VA. Analog output modules shall be
able to drive a load impedance of 500 Ohms minimum.
Output module shall be capable of switching ON/OFF inductive loads like solenoid valves, auxiliary relays etc. without any
extra hardware.
All input field interrogation voltage shall be finalized during detail engineering.
In case of loss of I/O communication link with the main processing unit, the I/O shall be able to go to predetermined fail
safe mode (to be finalized during detailed engineering) with proper annunciation.
Contractor shall provide the I/O modules at main control room/Inverter room for followings as the minimum (included
but not limited to):
1. Analog Input Module
a. WTI, OTI of all the transformer of capacity more than 50 KVA.
b. Ambient Temperature --- 02 Nos
c. Module Temperature-----01 Nos at each Inverter block
d. Meteorological Parameters (Wind speed, GHI, Relative humidity etc.)
2. Binary Input Module
a. All the LT incomer breaker and bus coupler breaker
b. All the MV/HV/EHV breaker
c. Bucholz, WTI, OTI, PRV, MOG of all the Transformer
d. Other devices included during the detailed engineering.
3. Binary Output Module:
a. All the LT incomer breaker and bus coupler breaker
b. All the MV/HV/EHV breaker
Contractor shall provide remote Input/output modules Housed cabinets/racks-with suitable redundant data link to the
central PLC system as specified. These Input/output modules shall meet the technical requirements as mentioned in the
above clauses. Further these Input/output modules shall be designed to continuously work under the environment
expected to be encountered in assigned areas without any air-conditioning support.

9. SYSTEM SPARE CAPACITY

Over and above the equipment and accessories required to meet the fully implemented system as per specification
requirements, Control System shall have spare capacity and necessary hardware/ equipment/ accessories to meet
following requirement for future expansion at site:

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10% spare channels in input/output modules fully wired up to cabinets TB shall be provided.
Further, each processor / controller shall have spare capacity to handle minimum 30% additional inputs/ outputs of each
type including above specified spare requirements, over and above implemented capacity. Each of the corresponding
communication controllers shall also have same spare capacity as that of processor/controller.
The Data communication system shall have the capacity to handle the additions mentioned above.
Ten (10) percent spare relays of each type and rating to be mounted and wired in cabinets TB. All contacts of relays shall
be terminated in terminal blocks of cabinets.
The spare capacity as specified above shall be uniformly distributed throughout all cubicles. The system design shall
ensure that above mentioned additions shall not require any additional controller/processor/peripheral drivers in the
system delivered at site. Further, these additions shall not deteriorate the system response time / duty cycle, etc. from
those stipulated under this specification.
DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (DCS) AT MAIN CONTROL ROOM
The Data Communication System shall include a redundant Main System Bus with hot back-up. Other applicable bus
systems like cubicle bus, local bus, I/O bus etc shall be redundant except for backplane buses which can be non-redundant.
The DCS shall have the following minimum features:
a. Redundant communication controllers shall be provided to handle the communication between I/O Modules (including
remote I/O) and PLCs and between PLCs and operator work station.
b. The design shall be such as to minimize interruption of signals. It shall ensure that a single failure anywhere in the
media shall cause no more than a single message to be disrupted and that message shall automatically be retransmitted.
Any failure or physical removal of any station/module connected to the system bus shall not result in loss of any
communication function to and from any other station/module.
c. If the system bus requires a master bus controller philosophy, it shall employ redundant master bus controller with
automatic switchover facility.
d. Built-in diagnostics shall be provided for easy fault detection. Communication error detection and correction facility
(ECC) shall be provided at all levels of communication. Failure of one bus and changeover to the standby system bus shall
be automatic and completely bump less and the same shall be suitably alarmed/logged.
e. The design and installation of the system bus shall take care of the environmental conditions as applicable.
f. Data transmitting speed shall be sufficient to meet the responses of the system in terms of displays, control etc. plus 25%
spare capacity shall be available for future expansion.
g. Contractor shall employ redundant Fiber optic backbone (Ring topology or better) for data communication between
Inverter rooms and main control room.
The Contractor shall furnish details regarding the communication system like communication protocol, bus utilization
calculations etc.

10. OPERATOR INTERFACE DISPLAYS/LOGS/REPORTS

Suitable Operator Interface Displays/Logs/Reports for control operation & monitoring shall be provided. The details shall
be finalized during detailed Engg. Stage.
Minimum quantities shall be as follows:-
Various displays on the OWS shall as a minimum include P&ID displays or mimic, bar chart displays, X-Y & X-T plot (trend)
displays, operator guidance message displays, group displays, plant start-up/shutdown message displays, system status
displays etc. Number of displays and the exact functionality shall be on as required basis and as finalized during detailed
engineering subject to the minimum quantities as given in subsequent clauses. For X-T & X-Y plots, the facility of providing

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a background grid on operator request shall be variable with adequate no. of divisions in both co-ordinates.
1 The minimum quantity of major types of displays per unit shall be as follows
a) Control displays (group/sub-group/sequence/loop) (On as reqd. basis subject to 100 minimum)
b) P&ID/ mimic display 20
c) X-Y Plot (with superimposed operating curves + using user selectable 25 + 25
stored data)
d) Group displays 20
e) Operator guidance message 10
f) System status & other diagnostic display on as required basis
The assignment for the above will be done by the contractor as per the requirement of operation of contractor's system as
well as for maintenance. The balance displays shall be left as spare for future modification/addition.

11.Historical storage and retrieval system (HSRS)

The HSRS shall collect store and process system data from MMIPIS data base. The data shall be saved online on hard disk
and automatically transferred to erasable long term storage media once in every 24 hours periodically for long term
storage. Provision shall be made to notify the operator when hard disk is certain percentage full. The disk capacity shall be
sufficient to store at least seven days data. The data to be stored in the above system shall include alarm and event list,
periodic plant data, selected logs/reports. The data/information to be stored & frequency of storage and retrieval shall be
as finalised during detailed engineering. The system shall provide user-friendly operator functions to retrieve the data
from historical storage. It shall be possible to retrieve the selected data on OWS or printer in form of trend/report by
specifying date, time & period. Further, suitable index files/directories shall also be provided to facilitate the same. The
logs/reports for at least last seven (7) days shall be available on the disk.
In addition to above, the system shall also have facility to store & retrieve important plant data for a very long duration
(plant life) on portable long term storage media). These data will include any data from the database as well as
processed/computed data based a various calculations/transformation. The retrieved data from long term storage
Media should be possible to be presented in form of alarms, logs, reports, etc.

12.CONTROL & POWER SUPPLY SCHEME

Vendor shall provide the power rating of SCADA system and its auxiliaries for designing the UPS size .But PLC inauguration
voltage source for Digital input will be provided by vendor.

13.CONTROL CABINETS / PANELS / DESKS AT CMCS ROOM

The cabinets shall be IP-22 protection class. The Contractor shall ensure that the packaging density of equipment in these
cabinets is not excessive and abnormal temperature rise, above the cabinet temperature during normal operation or air-
conditioning failure, is prevented by careful design. This shall be demonstrated to the Employer during the factory testing
of the system. The Contractor shall ensure that the temperature rise is limited to 10 deg. C above ambient and is well
within the safe limits for system components even under the worst condition and specification requirements for remote
I/O cabinets. Ventilation blowers shall be furnished as required by the equipment design and shall be sound proof to the
maximum feasible extent. If blowers are required for satisfactory system operation, dual blowers with blower failure alarm
shall be provided in each cabinet with proper enclosure and details shall be furnished with proposal. Suitable louvers with
wire mesh shall be provided on the cabinet. The cabinets shall be designed for front access to system modules and rear
access to wiring and shall be designed for bottom entry of the cables. The cabinets shall be totally enclosed, free standing

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type and shall be constructed with minimum 2 mm thick steel plate frame and 1.6 mm thick
CRCA steel sheet or as per supplier's standard practice for similar applications, preferred height of the cabinet shall not
higher than 2200 mm. The cabinets shall be equipped with full height front and rear doors. The floor mounting
arrangement for other cabinets shall be as required by the Employer and shall be furnished by the Contractor during
detailed engineering.
Cabinet doors shall be hinged and shall have turned back edges and additional braking where required ensuring rigidity.
Hinges shall be of concealed type. Door latches shall be of three-point type to assure tight closing. Detachable lifting eyes
or angles shall be furnished at the top of each separately shipped section and all necessary provisions shall be made to
facilitate handling without damage. Front and rear doors shall be provided with locking arrangements with a master key
for all cabinets. If width of a cabinet is more than 800 mm, double doors shall be provided. Two spray coats of inhibitive
epoxy primer-surface shall be applied to all exterior and interior surfaces. A minimum of 2 spray coats of final finish colour
shall be applied to all surfaces. The final finished thickness of paint film on steel shall not be less than 65-75 micron for
sheet thickness of 2 mm and 50 microns for sheet thickness of 1.6 mm.
The finish colors for exterior and interior surfaces shall conform to following shades:
(a.) Exterior: - As per RAL 9002 (End panel sides RAL 5012), to be finalized during detailed engineering.
(b.) Interior: - Same as above.
Paint films which show sags, checks or other imperfections shall not be acceptable.
As an alternative, single coat of anodic dipcoat primer along with single textured powder coating with epoxy polyester
meeting the thickness requirement is also acceptable.
The mimic shall be configured on the HMI and it shall be possible to control, monitor and operate the plant from the same.

14.CONTROL DESK
Control desk shall be free standing table top type with doors at the back and shall be constructed of 3 mm thick CRCA steel
plates. A 19 mm thick wooden top shall be provided on the desk to keep the TFT monitors at top and computers inside.
Control desk shall consist of vertical, horizontal and base supports with their coverings for work surface, keyboard trays,
mouse pads, monitor shelf and concealed cable and wire way management, perforated trays with covers in both horizontal
and vertical directions. Telephone sets, very few PB stations and lamps shall be mounted on the control desk on mosaic
grid structure and same shall be decided during detailed engineering. ASCII Keyboard shall be capable of being pulled out
through a tray.
The cabling / wiring between EWS/OWS & CPUS, power supply cables etc. shall be aesthetically routed and concealed
from view.

15.FURNITURE
Chairs Industry standard revolving chairs with wheels and with provision for adjustment of height (hydraulically/gas
lift) shall be provided for the operators, unit-in-charge & other personnel in control room area ( At least 4 Nos). These
shall be designed for sitting for long duration such that these are comfortable for the back. Chair pedestal shall be made of
5mm thick MS plate covered with poly-propylene cladding. Arm-rests in one piece shall be of poly-urethane and twin
wheel castor of glass filled nylon. The exact details shall be finalized & approved by Employer during detailed engineering.

16.SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION AND SOFTWARE LISTINGS

All technical manuals, reference manuals, users guide etc., in English required for modification/editing/addition/deletion

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of features in the software of the PLC System shall be furnished. The Contractor shall furnish a comprehensive list of all
system/application software documentation after system organization for Employers review and approval.
All The software listings for application software, Project data files etc. shall be submitted by the Contractor.

17.SOFTWARE LICENCES
The Contractor shall provide software license for all software being used in Contractors System. The software licenses
shall be provided for the project (e.g. organization or site license) and shall not be hardware/machine-specific. That is, if
any hardware/machine is upgraded or changed, the same license shall hold good and it shall not be necessary for
Employer to seek a new license/renew license due to up gradation/change of hardware/machine in Contractors System
at site. All licenses shall be valid for the continuous service life of the plant. Contractor shall provide Minimum 4 nos of
licenses for remote monitoring (Concurrent viewing of data at 4 different locations authorised with user ID/Password) of
the essential parameters of solar plant on the web using popular web browser without requirement of additional software.
The Scada will be commissioned locally at site without any internet.

18. TIME SYNCHRONIZATION AND INTERFACE WITH PI SERVER

The contractor will provide at least one GPS time synchronizing unit, which shall be synchronized with the SCADA system
and all devices which are communicating with Solar SCADA shall be synchronized with GPS time synchronizing unit. The
technical details of GPS have been specified elsewhere in the specification.
For communicating the generation data of solar plant in NTPC, the SCADA system shall be interfaced/ connected with PI
server of NTPC. The details of PI server shall be furnished during the detailed engineering.Communication link between
Solar SCADA and PI Server shall be in the NTPC Scope.
TIME SYNCHRONISATION EQUIPMENT:-
1>Time Synchronization equipment shall be provided and shall be located in the Control Room. It shall receive
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) transmitted through Geo Positioning Satellite (GPS) for time synchronization of all
components of the SCADA.
2>It shall be complete in all respects including antenna, all cables, processing equipment, etc.
3>All auxiliary systems and special cables required for synchronization of the equipment shall be supplied and
commissioned by the Contractor.
4>It shall work from DC supplies only and the Contractor to clarify if any built in battery backup is provided, in which
case, same shall be of long life lithium batteries.
5>It shall be immune to hostile electrical environment. Suitable protections are to be provided against lightning surges
and over-voltages in power supply systems and antenna feeders.

6>The system shall be fully tested to the relevant international standards such as IEC: 801 and IEC: 255.
7>All components of the SWYD SAS, including Substation Controllers, Workstations, Bay Control Units (BCU) and Bay
Protection units (BPU) and all numeric protection relays shall be synchronized with an accuracy of 1ms.
8>The GPS shall be synchronized with the SCADA system to be supplied under this contract and all devices which are
communicating with Solar SCADA shall be synchronized with GPS. Necessary software and Hardware (including laying of
communication cable) required for time synchronization with SCADA and all other devises shall be in scope ofcontractor.
9>The system should be able to track more than 1 satellite at a time to ensure no interruptions of synchronization signals.
10>The system shall have provisions for combination of any of the following output signals:
NTP (network time protocol) 100Mbits Ethernet port

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RIG-B00x (TTL, pulse width modulated signal)2 x Pulse per half-hour/ Pulse per minute/ Pulse per second outputs via
potential free contacts Any other output port as may be required for the offered system.
Alarm status contact indicating healthy status of system
11>These output ports shall be compatible with the requirement of the equipment to be synchronized i.e. BCUs and BPUs.
The master clock in control room shall also be synchronized with the time synchronization system. The actual port
requirements (no./type) in line with the system offered shall be finalized during detailed engineering.
12. The equipment should have a periodic time correction facility of one-sec. periodicity. The equipment shall also have
real time display in hour, minute, second (24 hour mode) and have a separate time display, having display size of approx.
144mm height.

19. HMIPIS HARDWARE AT MAIN CONTROL ROOM

The HMIPIS as specified shall be based on latest state of the art Workstations and Servers and technology suitable for
industrial application & power plant environment.
The Workstation/Servers employed for HMIPIS implementation shall be based on industry standard hardware and
software which will ensure easy connectivity with other systems and portability of Employer developed and third party
software. Redundant sets of communication controllers shall be provided to handle all the communication between the
HMIPIS and redundant system bus and to ensure specified system response time and parametric requirements.
Each communication controller shall have message checking facility. Power Fail Auto Restart (PFAR) facility with
automatic time update shall be provided. All the peripherals shall conform to the following minimum requirement but
the exact make & model shall be as approved by Employer during detailed engineering. The LAN to be provided under
HMIPIS shall support TCP/IP protocol (Ethernet connectivity) with OPC RDI for interface with PLCs/other systems and
shall have data communication speed of min. 100 MBPS. All network components of LAN and Workstations shall be
compatible to the LAN, without degrading its performance.

Workstations (Qty- 2 Nos)

Sl.No Features Operator workstations/ Other workstations/Documentation station
(in case not part of prog. Stn.)
1 Processor 64 bit
2 Memory 4 GB RAM upgradable to 8 GB
3 Hard Disk 500 GB- RAID 1

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4 Monitor (color) Min 22 TFT Flat Monitor with non-interfaced refresh rate min. 75 Hz.
Communication port:- 2 Serial bus , one parallel Dual 0/100/1000
Mbps. Ethernet Graphic Memory = 16 MB Expansion slot=3
5 Removable bulk storage drive (DVD / 6 GB (minimum)
DAT)
6 Removable Bulk Storage Media for 10 nos
above (with each server/ work-station)
7 DVD R/W 16x or higher
8 Intelligent UPS (on line) with remote 1 no. with 30 mins. Battery backup on machine load
monitoring for each workstation/
server
9 Keyboard ASCII
10 Pointing Device Mouse
11 Accessories Industrial grade furniture as approved during detailed engineering
12 Additional general purpose software Comprehensive disk maintenance utility for disk
(for using over network by clean sweep/ crash guard/antivirus, etc.
servers/workstations/PCs)
13 Software Ms. Windows latest, Ms Office, Adobe Acrobat, Anti Virus Etc
LED 40 WALL MOUNTABLE OF LEADING
14 BRANDS LIKE Sony, Samsung, LG etc.

Printer (Qty- 1 No.)

Sr. Features Colour Laser Printer
1 Paper Size A3
6 ppm (Color)
2 Printing Speed (min.)- in normal mode for A4 size paper
24 ppm (B&W)
3 Type Heavy duty, at least 50000 pages/month
4 Resolution (black) (min.) 600 dpi
=<1 min for color,
5 First page out time (with full graphic display)
<45 sec for BW
6 Paper input capacity (min.) 500 sheets
7 Additional features Automatic Duplex Printing
20 reams (A3)
8 Paper sheets (1 ream = 500 sheets) with each printer
20 reams (A4)

20.FACTORY ACCEPTANCE TEST (FAT)

FAT procedure shall be submitted by bidder for NTPC approval and after approval of FAT procedure. FAT will be
witnessed by NTPC Engineering or authorized representative of NTPC. SCADA shall communicate with all third party
devices which are part of Solar Plant and the same shall be demonstrated during the FAT.

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21.DOCUMENT SUBMISSION
(a) Along with offer (Soft Copy)
1. Type test, Routine test, Acceptance tests, certificates as per standards
2. Guaranteed Technical Parameter Sheet.
3. GA drawing
(After award of job (1 soft & 3 Hard Copy)
1. Quality assurance plan
2. List of routine tests with procedure
3. MQP & FQP
4. Erection manual
5. Operation & Maintenance manual
6. Commissioning Procedure
7. Warranty Certificate
8. QA programme including Organisation for implementation and QA system manual
QUALITY ASSURANCE
A) Checks on bought out items as per internal standards of the manufacturer
B) In-process checks, as per internal standards of the manufacturer
C) Acceptance test
Note: All works are subjected to client satisfaction.

22.WARRANTY
Vendor/ supplier/Contractor shall guarantee all performance parameters. The onsite warranty for total Scada system
including materials shall be minimum period of 60 months from the date of commissioning and the uptime for rectification
should be 72 hour for any fault.
Note:-If the internet will not be available during the commissioning of the Scada at site, the local monitoring of Scada at site
will be activated by Dongle or offline software.

23.SPARE
The vendor shall submit a list of mandatory spar for smooth running of the plant at post commissioning also mentioned the
list spare needed during installation in site. The vendor shall also provide separate price list for recommended spares for
5 years of Operation & Maintenance

24.PACKING
All the equipment shall be suitably protected, coated, covered or boxed and crated to prevent damage or deterioration
during transit, handling and storage at Site till the time of erection. While packing all the materials, the limitation from the
point of view of the sizes of railway wagons available in India should be taken account of. The Contractor shall be
responsible for any loss or damage during transportation, handling and storage due to improper packing. The Employer's
Inspector shall have right to insist for completion of works in shops before dispatch of materials for transportation.
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