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Simulation News of WSC 2017

3KEYMASTER Consortium Customer Spotlight

WSC hosted their annual 3KEYMASTER Consortium in Savannah Georgia on December 5-8, WSC has been providing the Los
2016. Over 40 attendees were present from various nuclear and conventional plants. Angeles Department of Water and
Through the course of the week, attendees increased their knowledge in simulation and Power (LADWP) with simulators
3KEYMASTER Software. Customer presentations on their projects were quite informative since 2004, developing an excellent
and well received. working and team-oriented relationship. The partnership began
The meeting commenced with a Joint Track that included a tour of Southern Company’s with the first award for the Valley combined cycle simulator and
Plant McIntosh, after which the attendees split into User and Developer Tracks. The Users has continued with providing LADWP five more simulators for
were involved in a workshop where they learned to use advanced features of the Instructor Haynes (Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle), Harbor (Combined
Station on their simulators and enhance the look and feel of their interface. These advanced Cycle) and Scattergood (Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle). Details
examples and exercises showed customers how to use trends, event triggers, scenarios, and on these plants are provided in the table below.
TPR reports in a more effective manner. The Developers workshop was intended for In addition to the simulators, WSC has provided LADWP with our
simulation software engineers who had interest in covering in more detail some of the 2016 Intelligent Tutoring System, 3KEYITS. WSC trained and worked with
3KEYMASTER modeling tool enhancements and other new 3KEYMASTER features. the LADWP staff by developing ITS lessons.
Based on user feedback, the week was a success and provided pertinent information to both Last year, WSC entered into a multi-year maintenance agreement
users and developers. to update the Valley, Haynes and Harbor simulators with DCS
WSC also had the opportunity to award three customers the following: upgrades (conversion from emulated to virtual), operating system
and hardware upgrades, model tuning, and 3KEYMASTER modeling
WSC 2016 Teamwork Award tools upgrades.
✓ Southern Company Mississippi Power Plant Ratcliffe IGCC - In The simulators are designed based on first principles to simulate
recognition of their promotion of effective teamwork between WSC, plant operation from cold startup to maximum load under steady
Southern Company and Mississippi Power state and transient conditions, taking into account the effects of
WSC 2016 Innovation Award changing parameters such as pressure, temperature, flow, and
level, and also the effects of these parameters due to starting and
✓ Duke Power Robinson Nuclear Plant - In recognition of their support
of a novel concept for nuclear power plant training – the Control stopping of all plant auxiliary equipment.
Room GlassTop Simulator
Plant RFT MW Plant Type
WSC 2016 Customer Award Scattergood 6/7 2015 200 2 Simple Cycle Units
✓ NEXTera Energy Seabrook Station - In recognition of their position as
longest serving customer, and completing upgrade of all plant Scattergood 4/5 2015 310 1x1 Combined Cycle
models to 3KEYMASTER Haynes 11/12 2014 200 2 Simple Cycle Units
Two users meetings are held each year, one at the annual SCS meeting in January and the Harbor 1/2/5 2011 235 2x1 Combined Cycle
second at the WSC 3KEYMASTER Consortium Meeting which is in the fall. For 2017, the
th
Consortium Meeting will be held in Gaithersburg, MD. the week of October 16 . Haynes 8-10 2007 564 2x1 Combined Cycle
Valley 6-8 2004 564 2x1 Combined Cycle

Registered 3KEYMASTER™
Trademark 3KEYDCS™
3KEYITS™
3KEYCLASS™
3KEYCATALOG™
3KEYGUARDIAN™
3KEYRELAP5-RT™
3KEYSTUDENT™
3KEYSAFE™
The United States Patent and Trademark 3KEYTAB™
Office has branded “3KEYSOFTWARE®” as
a WSC exclusive trademark. Within this 3KEYSAA™
Robinson (Left) and Mississippi Power (Right) Accepting Their Awards
branding, we have defined the following 3KEYTOUCH™
as trademarks through use. 3KEYSBT™
ISO Certification
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British Standards International (BSI) has recertified WSC to ISO 9001:2008, which is valid
through 2017. Continued efforts for improvement are enhanced peer technical reviews,
better unit testing before integration, and customer and internal assessments of
performance metrics in order to measure our performance.

Conferences Address: 7196 Crestwood Blvd. Suite 300
Frederick, MD 21703 USA
WSC will be participating in the following Conferences:
Phone: +1 (301) 644-2500
✓ Duke Energy Fossil/Hydro TechX Conference | August 28-31, 2017 | Concord, NC Fax: +1 (301) 682-8104
✓ 6th European Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Forum| October 2-4, 2017| Vienna Website: www.ws-corp.com
✓ ANS Winter Meeting & Expo | October 29 - Nov. 2, 2017 | Washington DC For Business Development and Sales, Please Contact:
Mr. Oussama Ashy +1 (301) 644-2544 (ashyo@ws-corp.com),
✓ SCS Power Plant Simulation Conference | January 14-17, 2018 | Houston, TX
Mr. Mark Terry +1 (301) 644-2520 (terrym@ws-corp.com), or
✓ Bismarck Energy Generation Conference | January 23-25, 2018 | Bismarck, ND
Mr. Majid Mirshah +1 (301) 644-2505 (mirshahm@ws-corp.com)
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