Fossil and Nuclear Simulation Capabilities
Talbot can provide information and development in all stages of your simulation lifecycle.
Simulator Procurement and Testing
- Request for Quote Specification preparation
- Bid Specification analysis and comparison
- Data gathering
- Plant design basis
- Plant drawings and manuals
- Current plant operating characteristics
- Capture of Distributed Controls System (DCS) state
- Simulator implementation
- DCS to plant interface analysis
- Electrical grid and distribution including hardwired controls
- Air system implementation
- Fuel system implementation
- Boiler implementation
- Balance of Plant (BOP) implementation including:
- Steam System
- Turbine
- Condenser
- Condensate
- Feed water
- Feed water heating
- Gland steam
- Lube Oil systems
- Hydraulic Oil systems
- Instrument and Controls modeling
- Hard Panel Emulation
- Simulator Testing
- Test program development
- Problem Tracking methodology and tools
- Mission Testing
- Cold Iron to Purge complete
- First fire to turbine warming
- Turbine Roll to on Grid
- Power ascension to 100% Name plate power
- 100% power to minimum stable load (Night turndown)
- Minimum stable load to Generator off line
- Generator off line to fire out of the Boiler
- Steady state power testing
- 10 transient testing
- Simulator capability testing
Ongoing Simulator Programs and Projects
- Simulator Training program setup
- Training Needs Analysis
- Training program goal setting and metric development
- Training material development
- Evaluation instrument development, feedback and improvement
- Train the Trainer simulator operation
- Simulator Continuity programs
- Local backup and restore testing
- Remote backup and restore testing
- Equipment replacement evaluations
- Simulator Maintenance programs
- Problem identification capture systems
- Troubleshooting and repair
- Testing and aggregation of changes
- Change management and new training load development
- Simulator Update and Upgrade programs
- DCS Update
- DCS state capture
- DCS configuration modification for the simulation environment
- DCS interface to the instrument model
- Major Equipment Update
- Turbine replacement
- Boiler modification
- BOP modification
- Simulator Scope improvement projects
- Electrical grid and distribution upgrades
- Improved BOP modeling
- Boiler thermodynamics tuning
- Simulator Hardware updates and re-hosting of the simulation