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Simulation News of WSC 2017

Awards & Customer Updates

2016 Major Awards Award - Excelsior College Generic PWR
WSC was awarded a contract by Excelsior College
✓ GE/ALSTOM - Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Plant Simulator
based out of Albany, NY to provide our Generic
✓ Dominion Millstone 2 & 3 - Additional GlassTop Simulators (see page 4) PWR simulator and to host the required cluster of simulation servers to
accommodate up to 20 students running the GPWR simulator at once. Upon
✓ Duke Energy - W.S. Lee Combined Cycle Simulator
student login, the web server is to schedule and start the GPWR simulator on
✓ Duke Energy - Six Simulator Upgrades one of the available servers allowing the student to interact with the GPWR
simulator. If a server is not available (fully loaded), or is down, the student will
✓ Excelsior College - Generic PWR
be assigned to next available server. The 1400 MW two-loop GPWR will serve
✓ GE - Duke Edwardsport IGCC as a training platform for the university’s online nuclear engineering
technology bachelor's degree program. The simulator will allow students to be
✓ GNP Systems Co. - Four Awards for 3KEYMASTER Licenses & Services
trained on the principles of nuclear plant operation, the basic concepts of
✓ Hanvit Power - KEPCO RI Pyeongtaek No. 2 Combined Cycle Simulator power plant systems, and plant control through a modern DCS-based user
interface that provides user-friendly navigation through the plant systems and
✓ KAERI - Marine Small Modular Reactor (SMR) License and Support
controls.
✓ LADWP - Long Term Maintenance Agreement (see page 8)
✓ Malakoff - Prai Combined Cycle Simulator
✓ NextEra Seabrook - Simulator Modernization and GlassTops
✓ Southern / Mississippi Power - Fully Emulated Kemper County IGCC
✓ Southern / Mississippi Power - Plant Watson Units 4 & 5 Fossil Simulators
✓ Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company (WCNOC) - Simulator
Modernization and Upgrades (RELAP5, Fire Panel, and W7300 Tool)

Award - Ashalim Solar Simulator
Business with the GE/ALSTOM Baden,
Switzerland office is continuing since their Award - Duke Energy Edwardsport IGCC Simulator
acquisition by GE in November 2015. The newest simulator project that was
awarded was for the Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Plant located in Israel. The WSC was awarded a contract to support GE in providing a full scope
simulator models are being developed as a collaboration between GE/Alstom Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) simulator to the Duke
and WSC engineers using the 3KEYMASTER environment and modeling tools. Energy Edwardsport IGCC power plant. The simulator will consist of
This will mark the second large solar thermal power plant modeled using the two GE 207FB combustion turbines with a rated power output of a nominal
3KEYMASTER Environment, the first of which was Ivanpah Power Plant located 240 MW gross each under standard conditions (65F ambient,) using syngas as
around Las Vegas, Nevada. the primary fuel or natural gas as the alternative fuel, including co-firing both
fuels. CT generators will be modeled after GE hydrogen-cooled design
The 121 MW Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station in Israel's Negev desert will incorporating two pole rotors for a rated speed of 3600 RPM at 60 Hertz. The
have more than 50,000 computer-controlled heliostats, or mirrors, that track combined steam output of the two Doosan dual-pressure heat recovery steam
the sun on two axes and reflect sunlight onto a boiler on top of a 250-meter generators (HRSGs) and gasifier island syngas coolers will supply GE G13 reheat
tower. Construction is underway and the facility is scheduled to be completed steam turbine-generator with a nominal rated output of 331 MW. The Overall
in late 2017. As in other collaborations with GE/ALSTOM, this simulator project control of the integrated gasification combined cycle plant models will be
will be used as part of an Simulation Assisted Engineering (SAE) process to accomplished utilizing a virtual Mark-VIe control system supplied by GE.
identify and correct control system errors before commissioning of the unit.
The primary objective of this project is to provide an engineering grade
Tzafit CCGT Simulator Delivered simulator for training of control room operators, supervisors, and plant
equipment operators. A secondary objective would be the ability to carry out
The joint WSC and GE/ALSTOM project team delivered the Tzafit (Haruvit) engineering and control system analyses to support design change activities.
combined cycle simulator in February 2016 in Israel. The simulator is hosted
within the 3KEYMASTER environment and was a collaboration of WSC and GE/
ALSTOM modeling efforts. The simulator is utilized as a training platform for Award - KAERI License and Support
plant operators and for SAE. Since 2015, KAERI and WSC have
cooperated on multiple projects in which
Award & Delivery - W.S. Lee CCGT Simulator the 3KEYMASTER technology is licensed
and used. These included projects on SMART, small test reactors and our
WSC was awarded a contract in early 2016 and
developed a new 2 on 1 combined cycle simulator with cooperation in integrating the KAERI MARS code with the 3KEYMASTER
Duke Energy from March 2016 to November 2016 for a power block that was Environment. WSC is pleased to have been awarded one more contract to
being commissioned. This simulator features WSC models for the Siemens gas provide software, support, and training on our 3KEYMASTER software to the
turbines, a Siemens steam turbine, and Vogt HRSGs. The Siemens gas turbines Maritime Development Center at KAERI.
and steam turbine were interfaced with virtual Siemens T3000 controls, and
the HRSG/BOP models were interfaced with virtual Ovation 3.6 controls. Award - Hanvit Power 3KEYMASTER
WSC delivered process models to Duke Energy in Charlotte, NC and provided License and Services
two months of SAE-style testing at the Duke offices to facilitate BOP control WSC was awarded a contract by Hanvit Power (South Korea) for a
logic development and testing. WSC delivered the simulator to the WS Lee site 3KEYMASTER License and Services to support their development of a simulator
in Belton, SC on November 9, 2016. The early delivery of the high-fidelity for the KEPCO RI Pyeongtaek No.2 combined cycle power plant. WSC provided
simulator helped accelerate Duke’s continuing control logic development our 3KEYMASTER environment, modeling tools, instructor station,
effort, as well as assist with W.S. Lee’s pre-commissioning operator training documentation, training, on-site/remote support, and an emulation of the MHI
opportunities. DiaSys DCS.

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