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Simulation News of Western Services Corporation January 2016
Customer Spotlight - Southern Company 3KEYMASTER Consortum
The 2015 WSC 3KEYMASTER Consortum was held in Frederick,
WSC has been providing Southern Company with simulators since 1999 and over the years
forged an excellent working and team-oriented relatonship. The Southern Company and Maryland in early November and we were truly appreciatve of the
partcipaton by the membership. We had an excellent turnout this
WSC partnership began with an EPRI project to develop Full Scope “Generic” Combined year with approximately 40 representatves from 15 diferent
Cycle Simulators. The Generaton 1 simulator was based on Plant Barry, followed by Gen 2 companies and organizatons. Presentatons were made by
(Plant Smith) and Gen 3 (Plant Harris). In a feet-wide approach and partnership, copies of Bismarck State College (Web-based Simulaton) and Holtec (SMR-
the simulators were provided to Plants Daniel, Wansley, Franklin, McIntosh (recently 160 Design & Engineering Simulator).
replaced with custom full scope simulator), and Stanton.
During the week, Consortum Members enjoyed dinner, wine and
To date, including Southern Nuclear’s Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, WSC and Southern beer tastng at the Linganore Winecellars/Red Shedman Farm
Company have successfully completed high-fdelity customized simulators for nine individual Brewery & Hop Yard, located in the rolling hills of Mt. Airy,
power plants, with the most recent delivery being the Kemper County Plant Ratclife IGCC Maryland (see picture below).
simulator (see artcle on Page 2). New awards and deliveries contnue with Plant McIntosh Following the feedback of the Consortum Members, this year’s
and Greene County being the latest (see table below). meetng was held at our home ofce, allowing for several diferent
The simulators are designed based workshops, training and demonstratons to be provided by the WSC
on frst principles to simulate plant staf. This provided members a range of opportunites to obtain
operaton from cold startup to frst hand knowledge of our development tools and technology.
maximum load under steady state Two users meetngs are held each year, one at the annual SCS
and transient conditons, taking meetng in January/February and the second at the WSC
into account the efects of 3KEYMASTER Consortum in the fall.
changing parameters such as
pressure, temperature, fow, and
level, and also the efects of these
parameters due to startng and
stopping of all plant auxiliary
Plant Daniel Instructor Staton equipment.
Subsidiary Plant MW Plant Type
Alabama Power Plant Greene County 688 Fossil*
ISO Certfcaton
Georgia Power Plant McIntosh 688 CCGT
Mississippi Plant Ratclife 582 IGCC Britsh Standards Internatonal (BSI) has recertfed WSC to ISO
9001:2008, which is valid through 2017. Contnued eforts for
Mississippi Plant Daniel 500 Fossil improvement are enhanced peer technical reviews, beter unit
testng before integraton, and customer and internal assessments
Georgia Power Hatch 924 Nuclear
of performance metrics in order to measure our performance.
Gulf Power Plant Crist 500 Fossil + FGD
Southern Power Plant Harris 550 CCGT Registered 3KEYMASTER™
Southern Power Plant Smith 553 CCGT Trademark 3KEYDCS™
Alabama Power Plant Barry 553 CCGT 3KEYITS™
3KEYCLASS™
* Coal-fred boiler being converted to Gas-fred 3KEYCATALOG™
3KEYGUARDIAN™
Business Development - New Hire 3KEYRELAP5-RT™
3KEYSTUDENT™
Our Business Development Group welcomes Mr. Tommy The United States Patent and Trademark 3KEYSAFE™
Utmel, who graduated last year from the University of South Ofce has branded “3KEYSOFTWARE®” as
Carolina with majors in Strategic Marketng, Human a WSC exclusive trademark. Within this 3KEYTAB™
Resources Management and Russian. Mr. Utmel’s branding, we have defned the following 3KEYSAA™
responsibilites include organizing our 3KEYMASTER as trademarks through use. 3KEYTOUCH™
Consortum Meetngs, new product development, and
updatng/maintaining our social media presence. He also Contact Us...
provides support with translaton and new marketng &
development initatves to spread 3KEYMASTER simulaton
technology into non-traditonal simulaton markets.
Conferences
WSC will be partcipatng in the following 2016 Conferences:
Address: 7196 Crestwood Blvd. Suite 300
Nuclear Power Asia Conference | January 2016 | Jakarta, Indonesia Frederick, MD 21703 USA
Bismarck Energy Generaton Conference | January 2016 | Bismarck, ND Phone: +1 (301) 644-2500
SCS Power Plant Simulaton Conference | February 2016 | San Antonio, TX Fax: +1 (301) 682-8104
Internatonal SMR and Advanced Reactor Summit |April 2016 | Atlanta GA Website: www.ws-corp.com
For Business Development and Sales, Please Contact:
NEST European Training & Educaton Conference | May 2016| Berlin
Mr. Oussama Ashy +1 (301) 644-2544 (ashyo@ws-corp.com),
ENS European Nuclear Conference | October 2016| Warsaw
Mr. Mark Terry +1 (301) 644-2520 (terrym@ws-corp.com), or
NRG European Nuclear Power Plant Simulaton Forum | October 2016 | Lyons, France
Mr. Majid Mirshah +1 (301) 644-2505 (mirshahm@ws-corp.com)
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