The suite of modern railway automation system has been commissioned on Kaliyanaya Station (previous name – Slavkaliy) in Minsk Region of Belarus.
The station is a part of the railway infrastructure of Nezhinskiy mining and processing plant. The plant performs the full cycle of production, starting from mining of the potassium ore up to production of potassium chloride. The planned production capacity is up to 2 million of potassium chloride a year. The railway infrastructure is critical to the plant, as it includes an industrial station and a 30 km railway line.
Kaliynaya Station is fitted with MPC-I Computer-based interlocking system featuring UKC-U Interlocking controller cabinet. UKC-U is a compact solution with automatic hot-standby redundancy that combines functionality of two regular UKC cabinets into a single cabinet. The project is also the first implementation of the full line of SOK object controllers produced by Promelectronica.
Besides MPC-I, Kaliynaya Station features ESSO-M-2 Axle counting system with DKU-M wheel sensors.
The neighboring station Urechye is fitted with ARM ShN terminal that enables monitoring and diagnostics of the equipment.
The line between Kaliynaya and Urechye stations features twelve level-crossings that are protected by MAPS level-crossing protection system. The level-crossings are controlled and monitored via a fiber-optic communication line, at that all information on current status of the level-crossings is transmitted directly to evaluators of MPC-I interlocking. This solution allows not only providing high level of control and monitoring but also significantly reduce the number of relay equipment used in the project.
Kaliyanay Station is a part of mainlines of Belarus Railways, which provides for strict requirements to infrastructure in part of reliability, safety and compliance to technical regulations.
The project on Kaliyanaya Station proves that modern solutions of R&D Company Promelectronica can be used on foreign railway infrastructure and open new opportunities for development and scaling of the system.
