A full-partial stimulation simulator design based on Foxboro I/A hardware for SCE&G`s Cope Station

Conference · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:391822

Gerber, N; Greenlee, T L ^[1]

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1. ESSCOR, Solana Beach, CA (United States)

Cope Station Unit No.1 is a new 385 MW drum unit near Columbia, South Carolina. The unit is based on a coal-fired, natural circulation, single reheat type boiler built by Combustion Engineering. The turbine is a General Electric tandem-compound double-flow single reheat type. The new plant is to be operated by teams who will depend on a new CRT-based plant simulator as a means of initial unit familiarization. The simulator is being jointly funded by SCE&G and EPRI as part of a Tailored Collaboration project. In the past the term {open_quotes}full-stimulation{close_quotes} was used to describe a simulator where a process model stimulated both the DCS Man-Machine-Interface (operator station CRTs) and the DCS system controllers (CPs, DPUs, MFPs, etc.). The term `partial-stimulation` was used to describe a simulator where a process model stimulated only the DCS Man-Machine-Interface and a translator was used to represent the control system software that resides on the DCS system controllers. The Cope Station simulator is the first of a new type that is a mixture of both. The process model stimulates the Foxboro I/A Man-Machine-Interface and it stimulates the actual Foxboro I/A Control Processor (CP) software which is now resident on the master simulation workstation rather than the CP hardware. Because the CP software is no longer resident on its original host hardware, the authors say the CPs are {open_quotes}virtual{close_quotes} or {open_quotes}soft{close_quotes}. Because of the accuracy of this approach the authors have termed this a full-stimulation simulator based on {open_quotes}virtual CPs{close_quotes}.

• OSTI ID: 391822
• Report Number(s): CONF-960482--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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