Invensys installs simulation Software at DOE
英维斯为美国能源部安装模拟软件

August 22, 2011 - Invensys Operations Management announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has deployed an operator training simulator for an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant with carbon capture using innovative simulation software-based training solutions from Invensys.

8月22日消息——英维斯营运管理宣布，美国能源部利用英维斯基于软件的创新模拟培训解决方案，为一个带碳捕获的整体煤气化联合循环（IGCC）发电厂部署了一个操作员培训模拟器。

Implemented at the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) Advanced Virtual Energy Simulation Training and Research (AVESTAR) Center in Morgantown, W.Va., Invensys Operations Management’s SimSci-Esscor DYNSIM high-fidelity simulator will help train operators for new IGCC plants now being built in the United States. An AVESTAR facility identical to the one at NETL is also in place at the West Virginia University National Research Center for Coal and Energy. It also uses a DYNSIM high-fidelity simulator and will be used to assist NETL with research and education.

英维斯运营管理的这个SimSci-Esscor DYNSIM高仿真模拟器部署在位于西弗吉尼亚州的美国国家能源技术实验室（NETL）的先进虚拟能源模拟训练和研究（AVESTAR）中心，将帮助正在建设中的IGCC新电厂培训操作员。与在NETL相同的另一个AVESTAR设备也部署到了西弗吉尼亚大学国家煤炭和能源研究中心。它同样使用了DYNSIM高仿真模拟器，将被用于协助NETL的研究和教学。

“IGCC with carbon capture holds tremendous promise as a low-cost, clean energy source so IGCC plants are expected to be a key resource for the provision of clean fossil power in the near future. Fulfilling that promise, however, requires an adequate supply of well-trained operators,” said Tobias Scheele, vice president, operations management applications, Invensys Operations Management. “The DOE is using our DYNSIM simulator, just as airlines use flight simulators to train pilots before they take to the air, to help future IGCC plant operators achieve operational and environmental excellence.”

英维斯运营管理运营管理应用副总裁Tobias Scheele表示：“带碳捕获的IGCC作为一种低成本的清洁能源具有很大的前景，所以IGCC电厂预计在不久的将来成为清洁化石能源供应的主要来源。但是，要实现这个前景，需要足够多训练有素的操作人员。能源部利用我们的DYNSIM模拟器，就如航空公司利用飞行模拟器在飞行员飞行之前培训他们一样，帮助未来的IGCC电厂操作员实现运营和环境的卓越性。”

The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that, based on current usage rates, the United States has enough coal to last more than 200 years, but if plants continue to use conventional fossil fuel technologies, they will emit unacceptable levels of CO2 and other pollutants. IGCC with carbon capture offers an environmentally friendly alternative by capturing 90 percent of the CO2 produced by traditional fossil-fuel burning processes while at the same time reducing sulfur, mercury and other NOx emissions.

美国能源情报署估计，根据目前的使用率，美国的煤炭还足够使用200多年，但是如果电厂继续使用传统的化石燃料技术，它们将使二氧化碳和其他污染物的排放达到不可接受的水平。带碳捕获的IGCC通过捕获由传统的化石燃料燃烧过程中产生的二氧化碳的90％，同时减少硫、汞和其他氮氧化物排放量，提供了一个环保的替代方法。

However, IGCC is also a complex process requiring highly trained operators. Many plants are now in various stages of design or construction in the United States and there is a pressing need for a well-trained work force. The DOE is therefore providing high-fidelity simulated environments that will enable trainees to learn to interact with controls that are almost indistinguishable from those they would encounter in a real plant.

然而，IGCC也是一个复杂的过程，需要训练有素的操作人员。现在许多美国工厂处在设计或施工的各个阶段，迫切需要一支训练有素的劳动大军。因此，能源部提供高仿真的模拟环境，将让学员学习与他们在真正的工厂所遇到的几乎没有区别的控制操作。

“IGCC is highly complex, mostly because personnel must learn to operate what is effectively both a chemical processing plant and a power plant. To teach them how to do that we must simulate the chemical process of coal-gasification with CO2 capture together with combined-cycle power generation,” said Stephen E. Zitney, Ph.D. and director of NETL's AVESTAR Center. “No one has ever done that before, but now with help from Invensys, we can simulate routine operations, disturbances and malfunctions, as well as routine and emergency shutdowns. We can even simulate operations and train operators on different coal and biomass feed stocks.”

NETL的AVESTAR中心主任Stephen E. Zitney博士表示：“IGCC非常复杂，主要是因为工作人员必须学会在化学处理厂和发电厂里面什么是有效的操作。为了教他们如何做，我们必须模拟带二氧化碳捕获以及联合循环发电的煤气化过程。此前从来没有人这样做过，但现在通过英维思的帮助，我们可以模拟日常运作、干扰和故障，以及日常和紧急停机。我们甚至可以模拟在不同的煤和生物原料之中的运营以及培训操作人员。”

The next phase of the project, already well underway, extends simulation from the control room to outside plant operators, or field operators, expanding the SimSci-Esscor solution to a 3-D virtual reality experience using Invensys Operations Management’s EYESIM immersive training simulator. Wearing a stereoscopic headset or eyewear, IGCC field operators can coordinate activities with control room operators. Immersed in an EYESIM virtual environment, field operators can move and interact as if they were in the real plant. The environment is fully interactive with the simulation models, so actions taken by a field operator will have an impact on the process and actions performed in the control room will change the information visible to the field operator. As a result, field and control room operators will be trained to coordinate their activities and perform collaboratively as a team.

该项目的下一阶段早已展开，模拟操作从控制室延伸到外部工厂操作员或现场操作员，利用英维斯运营管理的EYESIM身临其境般的训练模拟器，把SimSci-Esscor解决方案扩展成一个3D虚拟现实体验。戴上立体耳机或眼镜，IGCC的现场操作员可以与控制室操作员协调行动。沉浸在一个EYESIM虚拟环境中，现场操作员可以移动和互动，就如同他们在真正的工厂那样。环境与仿真模型是完全互动的，因此，现场操作员采取的行动将影响到进程，而中控室操作员的行为将改变现场操作员的可见信息。由此产生的效果就是，现场和控制室的操作人员训练协调他们的行为，以及作为一个团队进行协作。

About Invensys Operations Management
关于英维斯运营管理

Invensys Operations Management, a division of Invensys, is a leading provider of automation and information technology, systems, software solutions, services and consulting to the global manufacturing and infrastructure industries. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, its solutions are used by more than 40,000 clients around the world in more than 200,000 plants and facilities.

英维思运营管理是英维思集团的一个业务部门，是为全球制造行业和基础设施建设行业提供自动化和信息技术、系统、软件解决方案、服务和咨询业务的领先提供商。英维思运营管理总部设在美国德克萨斯州的普莱诺市，其解决方案被遍布全球的超过4万个用户广泛应用于全世界20多万家工厂和机构。

Invensys Operations Management’s offerings are delivered under several prominent industry brands, including Avantis, Eurotherm, Foxboro, IMServ, InFusion, SimSci-Esscor, Skelta, Triconex and Wonderware. The company’s approximately 9,000 employees and its global partner, Ecosystem, integrate these products and services to help clients collaborate across systems and enterprises in real time, extracting critical data to make faster and better decisions; and synchronize their operations from the plant floor to the executive offices, aligning production goals with business objectives.

英维思运营管理的服务是通过行业中几个著名的品牌来提供的，包括Avantis、Eurotherm、Foxboro、IMServ、InFusion、SimSci-Esscor、Skelta、Triconex和Wonderware。该公司大约9,000名员工及其全球合作伙伴生态系统将这些产品和服务进行整合，以帮助用户能够跨系统、跨企业的进行实时的协同工作，提炼重要的数据，以做出更加快速、更加正确的决策，同时将从工厂层面到管理层面的操作运营进行同步，将生产目标和商业目标进行统一。

Invensys plc is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ISYS.L), with approximately 20,000 employees working in 50 countries.

英维思集团总部设于伦敦，是伦敦证券交易所上市公司，集团拥有大约2万名员工，业务遍及全球50个国家。