Operator Training Simulator – eOTS™
Accelerate Dispatcher Operation Training
With increased focus on elimination of overdesign, system validation using digital twins, safety and emission compliance, as well as realized savings through virtual readiness and preparation, utilization of Operator Training Simulators has become a key factor in better design and improved operation of power systems.
ETAP eOTS - Model-Driven Power System Training Simulator helps to develop and improve operator competency through real-world simulated learning.
From simulation to operation, eOTS utilizes the ETAP Digital Twin foundation to provide operators and engineers with an effective learning environment to improve and augment their knowledge of the actual system. eOTS can save hundreds, thousands or millions of dollars by minimizing capital cost expenditures (CAPEX) on new design or upgrades, startup time reductions to reduced overall operating cost (OPEX) from improved system efficiency, reliability, safety, and availability resulting from improved operator skills.
- Ensure operator readiness & foreplan contingencies
- Increase operator competency & audit productivity
- Improve system safety & security through real-world simulations
- Validate design using steady-state & dynamic simulation
- Faster startup & shutdown times
- Reduce planned turnaround time
- Minimize outages due to operator errors
Concerns & Challenges
Solutions & Benefits
Avoid Unplanned Outages Caused by Human Error
- Build and verify new switching actions and control logic using ETAP Digital Twin simulator before field deployment.
- Identify root cause and finding remedies for issues arising during the operation for normal, non-routine, and emergency situations.
- Develop competency, improve confidence, and increase knowledge of operations staff for better and safer system performance.
Reduce Start-up & Commission Times
- Startup and shutdown with confidence for safer and faster deployment.
- Improve system optimization by unlocking hidden or abnormal operational conditions and variables.
- Validate new or revised operating procedures by testing them before their use in operation.
- In addition to operator training, engineers will get operational insights at various stages of the plant life-cycle.
Evaluate Operator Awareness & Readiness
- Deep learning in a safe, simulated, non-intrusive environment.
- Improve operator competency through hands-on training.
- Qualify and certify new and experienced operators using standardized operating scenarios and test cases.
- Use of ETAP SIL (Software-in-the-Loop) to emulate user interface and create a high fidelity training simulator.
Benefits & Value
- Reliable
High fidelity model based on the ETAP Digital Twin provides dynamic simulation for system-wide plant operation. - Competence
Accelerate time-to-competency, improve confidence and knowledge for better plant operation. - Flexible
Client-server architecture allows for remotely hosted virtual learning platform. - Configurable
Easily and quickly configure OTS settings and scenarios to replicate various operation conditions. - Affordable
No hardware dependency, using ETAP SIL to provide fast and affordable deployment of the OTS solution. - Maintainable
Utilize eOTS over the plant lifecycle, from the design to operation phases, to improve productivity and efficiency.
Features
- Virtual test of operator actions
- Simulate & track Sequence-of-Operation
- Ad hoc & pre-defined evaluation scenarios
- Trainer-to-trainees learning environment
- Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) simulation
- Simulate plant startup & shutdown
- Simulate normal or abnormal operation
- System dynamics & steady-state behavior
- Simulate external disturbances
- Simulation speed variability
- Model plant behavior qualitatively
- Simulate energy consumption
- Simulate long-term trends
- Simulated or actual operating data
- Integration with configured relay settings
- Evaluation reports, trends, and analysis tools
Applications
ETAP Operator Training Simulator reflects the realistic operations and control responses of the actual plant. eOTS ties together steady-state and dynamic simulation of the power system to emulate automatic controls, including relay characteristics, interlocks, exciter/AVR & speed governor, and generator capability for an array of applications including:
- SCADA / Power Management System
- Energy Management System
- Generation Management System
- Load Shedding Controller
- Microgrid System
- Load Demand Controls
- Advanced Distribution Management System
- Outage Management System
Learn How ADNOC Uses ETAP Digital Twin & Operator Training to Enhance Power System Efficiency
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, also known as ADNOC, is the state-owned oil company of the United Arab Emirates, and is the world's 12th largest oil company by production. ADNOC is committed to sustainability and has implemented various initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint, enhance operational efficiency, and support the UAE's goal for renewable energy and climate change mitigation. For ADNOC’s many facilities, whether independent power plants or other electrical networks, the challenge is how to provide training to operators, to not only get familiar with the operation management tools and procedures, but also to gain experience with the system response. In this presentation, ADNOC will demonstrate how they use ETAP Operator Training (eOTS) with ETAP Digital Twin as their training environment for the existing power management system to ensure well-trained operators for their electrical networks, turbines, and generators, and to ensure they are capable of responding to any operating scenarios they face on a day-to-day basis, during a plant startup or shutdown, or any kind of disturbance in the electrical network.
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eOTS™ - Operator Training Simulator
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