The 2008 PowerPlant Simulation Conference (PowerPlantSim '08)
is an annual conference sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.
The conference covers state-of-the-art developments in computer simulation technologies,
as well as scientific, industrial, and business applications for both fossil and
nuclear plant simulators. Performance Consulting Services, Inc. was pleased to coordinate
the fossil track of the PowerPlant Simulation Conference again in 2008. The fossil
track of the conference was chaired by Erica Finley, training services manager.
Simulator training personnel, training managers, simulator trainers, or anyone with
an interest in fossil power plant simulators or those who develop or use simulation
tools were invited to participate.
The conference took place February 24-28, 2008 at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
in Austin, TX.
If you would like more information about this conference, please call Tara Stuart
at (913) 677-3414.
Come see for yourself in 2008!
Evaluations
The success of the fossil track was proven once again this year! Check out the percentage
of the attendee's evaluations answering "yes" to the following questions:
Were the conference topics of interest to you? 97%
Did you gain useful information about simulator hardware/software? 100%
Did you gain useful information about simulator manufacturers / vendors? 100%
Presentations have been made available to you by PCS. Feel free to download
each file individually below or:
Advanced Instructor Station Features for Simulator Testing and Validation & Verification
- Oussama Ashy, Western Services Corporation Download
Session 2:
Migrating the Monroe Simulator from Full Stimulation to Virtual Stimulation
- ABB, Inc., & Alex Lekich, GSE Power Systems, Inc. Download
Implementation of Colbert Unit 5 Simulator - Successful Controls Checkout And Training
Platform For Reduced Start-Up Risk - Gary Terpstra, TVA and Tom Kane, TRAX Download
Challenges in Dynamic Simulation of Clean Combustion Power Plants - Kaj Juslin,
Reijo Lilja, Antti Tourunen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Download
Session 3:
Panel Discussion: DCS Simulation - A Positive Future?
Introduction:
History - TBD
Definitions of Simulator Types - Skip Hagan, Performance Consulting Services,
Inc.
Panelists:
Kim Fenrich, ABB Automation
Gregory Morton, GE Energy
TBD, Invensys (Confirmed by Joshua George)
John Cross, Westinghouse Process Controls, Inc.
Eugene Abruzere, Emerson Process Controls, Inc.
Rick Kephart, Emerson Power & Water Solutions
Session 4:
Plant Wide Dynamic Simulation and Control Design for a Multi-Purpose IGCC System
- Aimin Xu, Richard Turton, and Stephen E. Zitney, West Virginia University
Download
Process Control Concept Development Using Advance Process Simulation Software (APROS)-
Matti Paljakka and Kaj Juslin, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Download
Entergy Independence Fossil Power Plant Training Simulator with Virtual Stimulation
of Mark VI Control System - Steve Coker, Entergy, Marc McKinley and Gregory
Morton - GE Energy
Download
Dynamic Simulation of an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Plant
- Alex Lekich, GSE Power Systems, Inc. and TBD
Download
Session 5:
Modeling of a Drum Boiler Using MATLAB/Simulink - William A. Arnold and Graduate
Student - Babcock & Wilcox, and Scott Anderson, Graduate Student
Download
Simulator Black Start Training Topic (T&D Perspective) - Pat Everly, OES-NA
Download
Process And Tool For Collaborating, Maintaining, And Improving On A Simulator Fleet
- Jason Lee, Cassper Solutions and Bill Talbot, Ameren
Download
Session 6:
Panel Discussion: Generic Vs Plant Specific Simulators: Pros and Cons From a Utility
Perspective
Panelists:
David Ohara, Progress Energy
Mark Miller, Westar Energy
Gary Terpstra, TVA
Skip Hagan, Performance Consulting Services, Inc.
Session 7:
Training Simulators Rehosting And Upgrade: Solutions To Deal With Obsolescence And
Training Needs Throughout The Plant Life Cycle - Pascal Gain and Olivier
Harnois, CORYS/TESS
Download
Web-based Simulator Training - High Fidelity, Minimal Investment - Jody Ryan
and Stanley Chan, Thunder Simulation
Download
Simulator-Based Boiler Tube Failure Recognition - Tony Wiseman, Progress
Energy and Skip Hagan, Performance Consulting Services, Inc
Download
TVA's Experience with Training Simulators for the Fossil Power Group - Gary
Terpstra, TVA Download
Session 8:
Simulator Training Exercises and Evaluation Roundtables Chaired Erica Finley, Ron
Griebenow, Bill Green, Skip Hagan and Tara Stuart - Performance Consulting Services,
Inc.
Simulator Training Exercises: What Works? - Attendees should be ready to share their
best simulator training exercise.
Simulator Training Evaluation - Attendees should be ready to share their simulator
evaluation best practices.
Session 9:
Retrofitting Your Power Plant Simulator With A Flue Gas De-Sulfurization System
- Bob McHugh, Invensys SimSci-Esscor
Download
Ovation Simulator for 2 X 647MW Coal Fired Power Station - Gene Abruzere,
Emerson Process and Carlito Ibis Cabanela, TBD
Presentation not available
Advanced Modeling Technology Allows Easy And Cost Effective Modifications Of Base
Simulator To Create Multiple Configurations - Don Glaser and Dr. Radhe Shyam,
Simulation Solutions, Inc. Download
Session 10:
Simulator-Users Question and Answer Session (Closed Session - No Simulator Vendors
Please)*
*This is a user only session where unbiased opinions and individual experiences
can be shared amongst end-users
Heat Rate Awareness for Executives
CPC303- Sponsored by Competitive Power College
Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA
Date: Monday, December 10, 2007
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00pm
Room: 254, Level 2
Cost: $500.00
Instructor
Kristina Brandt, Senior Performance Engineer/Regional Account Manager, PCS, Inc.
Who Should Attend
Upper management individuals who want to know how to incorporate heat rate and performance
optimization into their daily work lives. This course is especially useful for new
executives and those who do not have a power engineering background.
Course Overview and Objective
The purpose of this course is to provide Executives with the knowledge and tools
to incorporate performance optimization and heat rate into their daily work lives.
The Heat Rate Awareness for Executives course incorporates the knowledge of heat
rate and efficiency, basic optimization principles and an overview of power plant
prime movers with the basic financial and fleet management requirements.
Course Highlights
Heat rate and efficiency definitions
Understanding interaction between fuel $/capacity $/availability $/MW sales and
heat rate
Fleet management and heat rate essentials
Cost effective fuel reconciliation
Reliability and capacity: How optimization is essential
Basic optimization thermodynamics
Cost of heat rate deviations
Determining strategic optimization through heat rate rules of thumb
Optimizing prime movers
Essential controllable losses tools
Optimization technology
Click here to register for the Power Gen Conference and the Heat Rate Awareness
for Executives, or for more information on the Power-Gen Conference click here
.
MidWest Utility Chemistry User Group Steam Turbine Fouling Conference
November 15, 2007
Sheraton Overland Park
Overland Park, Kansas
Steam Turbine fouling can be due to mechanical, operational or chemical
factors. Fouling can curtail production, cause corrosion damage, result in costly
repairs and the need for mechanical or chemical cleaning. Presentations at this
conference will address a variety of issues as they relate to monitoring, prevention
and correcting steam turbine fouling problems.
Dr. Elmer Hansen will be presenting "On-line Condition Monitoring of Turbine
Performance as it Relates to Steam Side Fouling." Dr. Hansen is a senior engineer
at Performance Consulting Services, Inc. He taught mechanical engineering at the
University of Florida for 19 years. During his 14 years of experience in early equipment
deterioration and failure, he was a pioneer in the use of advance pattern recognition
technology. He manages the configuration of on-line monitoring systems and the PCS
Diagnostic Center.
Who Should Attend?
Personnel from a variety of positions will find this event a good opportunity to
expand their knowledge on steam turbine fouling.
Operations Management and Supervision
Plant Managers
General and Preventative Maintenance
Plant and Corporate Engineering
Laboratory personnel
I&E
MidWest Utility Chemistry User Group:
This is a regional association of electrical power plant personnel, primarily
from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and Oklahoma. A different technical
topic is addressed at the Fall meeting each year in Kansas City.
Previous Topics have included:
Reverse Osmosis Operations
Boiler Availability
High Pressure Boiler Chemistry Monitoring
Oxygen Corrosion Issues
Technical presentations are made by qualified vendors servicing the electric
power industry. These presentations are technical in nature with limited commercialism.
Registration assistance can be obtained by calling Kim Fitzpatrick at (515)
289-1500. Additional conference information, local hotel accommodations and directions
are also available on the registration web page.
Conference fee is $89 per person. Breakfast, Lunch and Conference Notebook included.
First Annual PCS Equipment Condition Monitoring Symposium
September 5-6, 2007
Hilton Milwaukee City Center
509 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Performance Consulting Services, Inc. organized a 2-day symposium to give
electric power professionals a chance to share information and experiences about
condition monitor systems and processes. The symposium was designed specifically
for professionals in the electric power industry who own, manage, or maintain a
condition monitoring system. The focus of the symposium was to provide an opportunity
for sharing industry leading best practices combined with open forum discussions
focusing on process and experience that will help all attendees maximize the value
of their condition monitoring investment.
In addition, We Energies hosted a tour of their newly commissioned remote monitoring
center at their corporate headquarters in Milwaukee.
Click here
to download the symposium presentations. If you have problems downloading the file
or would like additional information about performance monitoring at your plant,
please call (913) 677-3414 for more information!
PCS presents the Second Meeting of the Energy Workforce Planning and Performance
Interest Group
November 2 & 3, 2006 at Progress Energy's Northpoint meeting facility in
Lake Mary, FL (near Orlando).
The Interest Group mission is to collaboratively address workforce issues relating
to recruiting, evaluation, training, knowledge capture, and efficiency with a particular
focus on the needs of the power generation industry. The May 2006 meeting in Charlotte,
NC was well attended and we expect this group to become a major resource to the
industry.
Attendees can choose to attend the meeting for a fee or join the EPRI Interest
Group for 2006-2007 which covers this meeting and the planned summer 2007 meeting
for no additional charge. You do not have to be an EPRI member to attend this meeting
or join the interest group.
The EPRI project notification for the Energy Workforce Planning and Performance
Interest Group can be found on the
website
.
The 2007 Power Plant Simulation Conference took place February 19-21,
2007 in San Diego, California. The conference was hosted by the Society for Modeling
and Simulation International (SCS) and contained a nuclear track and a fossil track.
The fossil track was organized by PCS and chaired by Erica Finley of PCS. Mac McDade
of Progress Energy organized and chaired the nuclear track. Fossil track attendees
not only learned about the latest simulator technologies but also had the chance
to network with other power plant simulator personnel.
Presentations have been made available to you by PCS. Feel free to download each
file individually below or:
Click here to download
Sessions 1-6 combined presentations.
Click here to download
Sessions 7-10 combined presentations. (Please note that these are large files and may take several minutes to download)
Session 1:
Training Simulator for the Slovenske Elektrarne Vojany and Novaky Coal-Fired Power
Plants (Slovakia) - Pascal Gain, CORYS T.E.S.S. Download
Session 2:
Key Components to Effective Simulator Instruction - Rick Stuart, Performance Consulting
Services, Inc. Download
Using Generic Simulators for Fleet-Wide Plant Operator Training -
Ray "Skip" Hagan, Entergy Corporation Download
Problems Caused by the Discreet Time Modeling of Power Plant Control Logic Systems
- Colin Gavrilenco,
Download
Session 3:
Panel Discussion: Stimulated, Emulated, Hybrid or Virtual Controls for Simulation
Introduction: Definitions & Technology Updates - Rick Stuart, Performance Consulting
Services, Inc.
Robert Boire, L-3 MAPPS
Alex Lekich, GSE Power Systems, Inc.
Anne Frey, ABB Automation
Oussama Ashy, Western Services Corporation
Greg Morton, GE Energy
Tom Kane, TRAX LLC
J. Konduros, Atlantis Systems, Inc.
Session 4:
Virtual Reality-Based Crew Training Simulators (CTS) - Don Glaser, Simulation Solutions Download
The Progress Energy, Roxboro Unit 2 Simulator Project Buyer and Vender Prospective
- David O'Hara, Progress Energy and Oussama Ashy, Western Services Corporation Download
Hydro Power Plant Simulators For India - Pascal Gain, Corys T.E.S.S. Download
Session 5:
A Versatile Controls Checkout Platform - Tom Kane, TRAX LLC Download
Simulator Assisted Engineering as applied to ALSTOM Power Kaeng Khoi Combined Cycle
Project - Dr. Stephan Hepner, ALSTOM Power and
Mladen Udbinac, Western Services Corporation
Simulation Drives Engineering Cooperation: A Flue Gas Desulphurization Retrofit
Case Study - Jim Nyenhuis, SimSci-Esscor and Bob McHugh, SimSci-Esscor Download
Session 6:
Panel Discussion: Simulator Usage in Other Industries
Don Glaser, Simulation Solutions (Petroleum)
Pascal Gain, CORYS T.E.S.S. (Railroad)
Mac McDade, Progress Energy (Nuclear)
Dave Krahl, Imagine That, Inc. (TBD)
Session 7:
Using Simulators for Knowledge Capture and Transfer - Herman Stone, Fossil Consulting
Services, Inc. Download
Progress Energy Operator Excellence Program - David O'Hara, Progress Energy
Download
LADWP Valley and Haynes Generating Station Simulators and Applications - Nermina
Rucic, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Mladen Udbinac, Western Services Corporation Download
Session 8:
Open Round Table Discussion
Measuring the Effectiveness of Simulator-Based Training
Session 9:
The Advantages of Virtual Stimulation - Greg Morton, GE Energy Download
Simulation of FGD & SCR Environmental Systems - Alex Lekich, GSE Systems Download
Dynamic Simulation for IGCC Power Plants - Michael Erbes, Enginomix Download
August 16-18
Duke Energy Center
Cincinnati, OH
Booth #343
PCS' Pete Ruestman, Rich Booth and Bob Holzworth will be attending. This year PCS
is hosting some exciting give-aways. Those that stop by the booth can register to
win a marvelous stay at a Teton Mountain Resort
(2-day/3-night) or an Apple iPod.
Don't forget to join us for cocktails at our booth on Thursday evening!
If your still trying to decide whether or not to attend, let us make it a little
easier with a
Free Pass!
Find out more and register at
Coal-Gen 2006.
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57th Annual Generation Conference for the Association of Rural Electric
Generating Cooperatives (AREGC)
June 25-28 2006, Covington, KY
PCS attended the 57th Annual Generation Conference for the Association of Rural
Electric Generating Cooperatives (AREGC). The event was held June 25-28, 2006 at
the Cincinnati Marriott at River Center in Covington, Kentucky. The major speaking
topics presented were ?Environmental, the Future is Certain? and ?Change, Owners
Experiences, and Industry Updates?.
PCS played a key role as a full 2006 AREGC Conference Sponsor and engaged numerous
clients with varied interests. While a number of attendees in the industry had some
familiarity with PCS, numerous questions were addressed concerning how PCS could
benefit their operation?from improving generation performance to aging work force
issues.
A number of attendees had already attended our Heat Rate Awareness class which
has been a flagship in our continual drive to bring knowledge to the forefront.
Please go to our web site at www.pcs-home.com for a current class schedule and enroll
today!
SCS International PowerPlantSim Conference
February 6-8 2006, Atlanta GA
Thank you for attending this year's "standing room only" fossil track
of the PowerPlantSim Conference. Please make plans to attend the SCS 2007. Check
back periodically on the PCS website for more details.
Due to the recent resurgence in simulator interest/activities in
the fossil power industry, Performance Consulting Services, Inc. worked in conjunction
with the Society for Modeling and Simulation International Conference SCS to re-establish
a fossil presence at the conference. Attendees at the 2006 conference had the opportunity
to share information about recent developments in power plant simulation. They listened
to the experiences of other utilities, asked questions, and acquired an overview
of the latest technology.
Power plant simulation has two main purposes:
To serve as a training tool for power plant operators. A simulator
provides a safe, non-destructive environment for new operators to learn the ropes
before operating the multi-million dollar plant.
To serve as an engineering tool for plant reliability and performance
engineers. A simulator provides a safe, non-destructive environment for engineers
to test control logic and tuning changes before implementing those changes on the
multi-million dollar plant.
There were five individual presentations, a panel discussion, and
a round table.
Morning Session:
Making A Decision Between High Fidelity Stimulated or High Fidelity
Emulated Simulators on Fossil Units - Jason Lee, Sega, Inc.
Training Productivity Enabled by Fully Emulated Simulation - Case
Study: Ameren St. Louis Resource Center - Chris Bryant, Ameren and Tom Kane, TRAX
Stimulated, Emulated, Hybrid or Virtual Technology and Benefits Update
- Panel Discussion
Oussama Ashy, Western Services
Ron Dixon, TRAX
Alex Lekich, GSE
Greg McKim, SIMSCI/ESSCOR
Assad Hodhod, L3-CAE
Gene Abruzere, Emerson Process Management
Susan Krecek, ABB
Afternoon Session:
Update on EEI JOPPA Unit 1 and 6 Simulators - Oussama Ashy, Western
Defining a Schedule and Allocating Manpower to Your Simulator Project
- Alex Lekich, GSE
Power Plant Simulators on Your Plant or Corporate Web - Don Glaser,
Simulation Solutions
Measuring the Effectiveness of Simulator Based Training - Round Table
PCS is excited to be able to offer you several of the conference presentations on-line. The presentations are downloadable in a single file
Making A Decision Between High Fidelity Stimulated or High Fidelity
Emulated Simulators on Fossil Units - Jason Lee, Sega, Inc.
Training Productivity Enabled by Fully Emulated Simulation - Case
Study: Ameren St. Louis Resource Center - Chris Bryant, Ameren and Tom Kane, TRAX
Update on EEI JOPPA Unit 1 and 6 Simulators - Oussama Ashy, Western
Services and Carl Brewer, EEI
Power Plant Simulators on Your Plant or Corporate Web - Don Glaser,
Simulation Solutions
Defining a Schedule and Allocating Manpower to Your Simulator Project
- Alex Lekich, GSE
