YOKOGAWA Australia has been awarded the contract to build a simulator for Liddell Power Station.
The simulator will allow the power station to train operators in all aspects of the plant’s operation, replicate and investigate plant failures and test proposed plant modifications prior to implementation.
Yokogawa Australia says it will take 18 months to build the simulation solution.
The simulator will run the same software package as the real plant system, and use the same configuration.
According to Yokogawa, this means the simulator is the perfect test and training environment for the control system, being totally identical to the real plant with operations and alarm events requiring identical attention.
Operators can be trained in every aspect of the plant’s operation, even those that only occur infrequently.
Additionally, modifications to the plant control system can be tested on the simulator, and also commissioned on the simulator, slashing commissioning and implementation costs, and reducing downtime.
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