Omaha Public Power District selects Invensys virtual stimulation technology to verify controls upgrade at Fort Calhoun nuclear station.FOXBORO, Mass. -- Innovative tuning approach will allow comprehensive off-line low-risk digital control system checkout prior to commissioning Invensys Process Systems has been selected by Omaha Public Power District Omaha Public Power District, or OPPD, is a public electric utility in the State of Nebraska. It is one of the largest publicly owned electric utilities in the United States, serving more than 310,000 customers in 13 southeast Nebraska counties. (OPPD OPPD Omaha Public Power District ) for advanced SimSci-Esscor (www.simsci-esscor.com) virtual stimulation technology using FSIM FSIM Flight Simulation FSIM Functional Simulation FSIM Fiber Sensor Integrated Monitor FSIM Fixed-Structure Interacting Multiple-Model FSIM Foxboro Simulation Plus software to fully verify and tune the OPPD Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station's upgraded Foxboro (www.foxboro.com) digital automation system. The contract also includes software and engineering services to bridge the controls simulation to Fort Calhoun's existing plant simulator. Fort Calhoun Station, located eight miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, is a pressurized pres·sur·ize tr.v. pres·sur·ized, pres·sur·iz·ing, pres·sur·iz·es 1. To maintain normal air pressure in (an enclosure, as an aircraft or submarine). 2. light water reactor
A light water reactor or LWR facility with generating capacity of 492 megawatts. Operating safely since it was built in 1973, Fort Calhoun Station has received an extension of its operating license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. (NRC NRC abbr. 1. National Research Council 2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Noun 1. NRC - an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants ). OPPD is in the process of upgrading the facility, including new steam generators, a new reactor vessel head and a new pressurizer to allow it to continue operating safely and efficiently until 2033. The FSIM Plus simulator will be used to exactly model the upgraded I/A Series digital control systems at Fort Calhoun Station. Virtual stimulation technology uses the underlying digital controller source code, which is ported to a low-cost computer platform and combined with simulation functionality. This virtual controller communicates with operator workstations, exactly duplicating the control room experience in an off-line, low risk manner. As an exact representation of the plant controls, the FSIM Plus virtual stimulation allows for the control algorithms to be tested in the simulator before installing the controls in the plant. This Invensys "test before install" strategy also eliminates subsequent forced outages caused by live control configuration error resolution, and can result in enormous savings to the plant. The OPPD Fort Calhoun Station contract for simulation solutions follows an earlier control system modernization contract with Invensys for the latest I/A Series automation technology. The control system modernization will also use the latest Foxboro high availability, high speed mesh backbone technology for the Fort Calhoun plant data network. |
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