NETL Advances Clean Coal Power Technology Using Virtual Reality Training System

1. NETL Advances Clean Coal Power Technology Using Virtual Reality Training System Presented to Power Plant Sim 2011 Presented by Howard Jemison 02/08/11 Invensys proprietary & confidential

2. Introduction • Integrated Gasification and Combined Cycle (IGCC) power generation viewed as next generation of clean coal energy • High fidelity Operator Training Simulator (OTS) with virtual reality (VR) environment provides demonstration, education and training to promote IGCC technology • OTS with VR will showcase IGCC as a technically feasible and clean means of meeting future energy demands Engineering quality models and controls will provide test bed for process and control improvements • VR system provides realistic and intuitive demonstration and training environment

3. Outline • Simulator Basis • Process model scope • Hardware/software scope • Control system and HMI • VR environment and features • System capabilities • Brief demonstration

4. Simulator Basis • ~750 MW Gross Power Generation • Feed Slurry Preparation (coal, petcoke, biomass) • 2 Train Gasification Producing Synthetic Natural Gas (Syngas) • Air Separation • Syngas Scrubbing and CO2 Capture • Sulfur Removal and Sour Water Stripper • Combined Cycle Power Generation

5. Process Model Scope • Process divided into 2 major sections • Gasification • Feed slurry preparation • Air separation • 2 Gasification trains • Acid gas removal • 2 Sulfur recovery trains • CO2 recovery and recompression • Combined Cycle Power Generation • Syngas Expander • Gas Turbine • HRSG • Steam turbine • Electrical system

7. Hardware Scope

8. Software Scope • Dynamic Simulation • Dynsim licenses • Human-Machine Interface (HMI) • Wonderware InTouch licenses • Virtual Reality • EYESIM licenses

9. Controls and HMI • Regulatory and safety controls implemented in Dynsim • Feed switching • Equipment changeover • Load changes • Adjust gasifier feed to match load demands • Wonderware InTouch used to produce operator graphics • DCS functionality • Alarming • Historian

10. HMI Overview

11. HMI Operator Graphic

12. ...completing by photo scanning VR Environment and Features • Immersive training (realistic 3D and surround sound)

13. Expected Benefits from VR Training • More realistic training environment • Team training • Safe environment to practice – no consequences • Improve reaction time and probability of correct response in stressful situations • Improve skills for rarely-performed, but safety-critical tasks (e.g., emergency shutdown) • Leverage skills of senior people and capture knowledge • Evaluate operational and maintenance procedures • Animations for clear understanding of process internals

14. System Capabilities • Normal plant evolutions • Full plant startup • Feed changes • Normal and emergency shutdowns • Hundreds of equipment, instrument and environmental malfunctions • Team training for all control room and field operators • Communication • Planning and coordination • Full simulation functionality • Freeze, run, fast, slow • Save, restore, backtracks • Scenarios, trainee performance

15. EYESIM Demonstration