EcoStruxure Triconex - Tricon CX safety system is Schneider Electric's newest product for safety control. It adopts the typical triple redundant TMR (Triple Modular Redundant) structural design, which combines the advantages of the Tricon system and the Trident system, and is certified by TUV Rheinland. Tricon CX is widely used in petrochemical, coal chemical, natural gas, electric power, rail transport, nuclear industry and other industries for safety interlocking and protection control of key equipment.
The main features of Tricon CX are as follows:
● Flexible system architecture: star + serial connectivity, supporting 70km of remote I/O expansion racks, ● Flexible system architecture: star + serial connectivity, supporting 70km of remote I/O expansion racks.
Functional safety and information security certified.
Supports HART communication protocol
Supports on-line addition of racks, cards, related configurations and programme loading.
● 32-point loop supervisory DI card, supporting 1 ms SOE.
● 16-point general-purpose I/O card, supporting DI, DO, AI and AO types of channel configuration.
● Supports up to 750,000 safety I/O channels (via 254 nodes)
● Expandable by 15 I/O racks per mainframe
● 6 I/O cards per I/O rack
● Electronic cabling solutions for secure smart enclosures
The Tricon CX communication capabilities are as follows:
SIL3 secure point-to-point communication, up to 254 nodes
Communication distance up to 70 kilometres
Modbus TCP and Modbus RS485 communication
TSAA
OPC UA (via external gateway)
HART IP
List of Tricon CX modules:
Chassis
8120X Main chassis
8131X I/O chassis
Processors
Communications
4355X Triconex Communication Module
4610X Unified Communication Module
4701X I/O bus interface module, RS-485 Serial-Serial
I/O modules
3506X Supervised digital input module 32 channels, 24 VDC Supervised, TMR
3626X Supervised digital output module 32 channels, 24 VDC, Supervised, commoned, TMR
3722X Analog input module 32 channels, 0 – 5 VDC, Fast, No-HART, TMR
3723X Analog input module 32 channels, 0 – 5 VDC, HART, TMR
3809X Analog output module 16 channels, 0 – 23 mA, HART, TMR
3902X Universal safety
I/O module 16 channels, TMR
Analog inputs + HART
Supervised digital inputs
Analog outputs + HART
Supervised digital outputs
Module Module Description External Term Panel (ETP) Nonincendive ETP
3506X DI, Supervised 9563X-910 9563X-910
9566X-810 9566X-810
3626X DO 9662X-610 9671X-610, 24 VDC
9671X-810
3722X Al 9760X-210, 2-Wire 4-20 mA, 0–5 VDC
9761X-210
9765X-210, 3-Wire, 4-20 mA, 0–5 VDC
9771X-210
3723X Al + HART 9760X-210, 2-Wire 4-20 mA, 0–5 VDC 9789X-610, 4-20 mA
9761-210 9791X-610
9765X-210, 3-Wire 4-20 mA, 0–5 VDC
9771X-210
3809X AO + HART 9890X-610 n/a
3902X Universal I/O with HART 9960X-610 n/a
EcoStruxure Triconex - Tricon CX is the most powerful safety system from Triconex. Leveraging the pedigree of the field-proven Tricon, Trident and Tri-GP systems, Tricon CX is the best possible choice when safety and profitability are critical success factors.