Category: simulations

Turbine Dynamic Simulators

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Turbine Dynamic Simulators are a range of stand alone C# developed software packages that mimics various turbines dynamic behavior at a reasonably high fidelity level.

It models turbine as a lump system utilizing in house developed relatively simple robust and fast numerical methods.

There are two links at the bottom here.  A link to a simulator resembling the core features of an imaginary steam turbine with one controlled extraction. The image bellow that one is a link to a YouTube video that demonstrates some of the simulator features.

Apart from various steam turbines there are also simulators for other turbo-machines that have been mastered.  A core generic versions of gas turbine, water turbine, pump and compressor simulator have also been developed and is available to be tuned to resemble any such machine available at the market.

The simulator creates a reliable closed loop environment that can have all kind of applications.  At present it has been proven as a perfect tool for developing and pre-commissioning PLC turbine control software as well as for operators training.

The simulators are able to communicate to other Win applications, as various PLC emulators or else.  We have already executed projects with the simulator communicating to the PLC emulators namely,  Simatic S7 (a peper here) and AB CompactLogix.  That can be extended to any other PLC having it’s emulator.

Drop me a note for any additional info about this application.

EX1 STEAM TURBINE SIMULATOR
(*.RAR ARCHIEVED *.EXE FILE)

 

STEAM TURBINE ITCC RETROFIT IN PETROKEMIJA KUTINA

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 Introduction

Turbomehanika successfully retrofitted the controls for two identical steam turbine trains that are parts of the Old Nitric Acid plant in Petrokemija Kutina.  The trains are manufactured by Escher Wyss and commissioned back in 1968. Operating continuously since. Each train consists of a steam turbine, two process compressors and a gas expander all coupled together.  The steam turbine being the main drive with the expander supplementing it by expanding the process product gasses through.

The scope of the retrofit was to replace the existing steam turbine control and the compressors antisurge protection with a new PLC based Integrated Turbine Compressor Controls (ITCC) system.  Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 PLC together with Bently Nevada Adapt 3701/55 ESD are used as the PLC hardware.

Turbomehanika have been the main contractor for the job with Arirang and Intea being subcontractors.

The Old Control System

The old control system consisted of hydraulic turbine controls and compressor antisurge protection. They were both using the same 7barg hydraulic/lube oil system.

Steam Turbine Controls had a flywheel isochronous governor operating three steam control valves actuated by a linear hydraulic servomotor.  The governor and the trip unit were both integrated together at the steam turbine front pedestrian.  The project spec required to use the existing trip device.  Separating one from each other was quite a challenging task that required gaining a deep knowledge of the Escher Wyss control concept. The governor was cut out while the trip device and the servomotor remained a part of the current system.

          

                     

Compressor Antisurge System had a control unit and the blow-off valve operated by a hydraulic servomotor.  The control unit was cut out while the blow-off valve with its servomotor remained parts of the current ITCC.

All through the recent years the customer were keep experiencing issues with the antisurge controls.  It would open the blow-off valve when it was not supposed to causing costly plant shutdowns.  While commissioning the new controls we found that in some operating modes compressors are expected to run quite near to the surge region. The old antisurge controls were most probably not being able to deal with that operating situation.

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THIS SITE

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Here is a turbine engineer web site.

While dealing with the Cocohouse web site I built a bit of web design skills.

Internet is a great thing that made our world smaller and all the human kind closer to each other.  As turbine people around the world are also some kind of humans the internet made us closer either. 🙂

Hence I decided to put online some of my turbine  and control expertise gained through a lifetime of hands-on experience in the power engineering.  It is to be used by turbine engineers or anybody who wants to become one.

This site contains some of my papers and applications that are available for your non-commercial use.  The applications are listed and briefly explained below:

  • Steam Turbine Thermodynamic
    A simplified core steam turbine design.  The calculus is based on input steam parameters and design conditions.  It predicts the design operating point and the expected output. It also calculates any off- design operating point and predicted output in a case of inlet pressure deviates from the rated one. This kind of assessment is particularly required in geothermal engineering world.
  • ThreeP (bang-bang)
    A time simulation with a bang-bang loop controlling the water level in a vessel.  Was taught this type of bang-bang loop by my teacher prof Sherman back than at the university.  Believe it is quite superior to whatever I’ve seen around since. This application allows you to tune the whole thing, play with it and understand how ThreeP works.
  • TMC Playground
    TMC stands for Turbo Machinery Controls.  This application demonstrate some basic TMC features. It simulates two turbo-generators that can operate in all kind of real life scenarios.  Also demonstrates some advanced load sharing features that I developed through the years of dealing with the matter. Its User Manuals explain well how to go around the playground.
  • Synch Playground
    This application simulates synchronizing generator to grid in a manual mode as it ones used to be.  These days AutoSynch unit does it all by itself.  The simulation gives operators and engineers idea of what is actually happening during synchronizing process. It has its User’s Manual as well.
  • Turbine Dynamic Simulators
    Stand alone C# developed software package that mimic dynamic behavior of various turbo-machines. It creates reliable and robust closed loop environment that can be integrated in all kind of applications.

There is also a part here called Linear Control Theory. That part was put together by prof. Šerman with me just shaping it up for the web publishing. Had a privilege to be prof. Šerman university student and later on worked together through some tough projects.

Originally we had a commenting option enabled for this site. However, spammers were keep flooding us with things so the comments are disabled for now.  If you have any comment or question regarding the contents here please forward it to perica.skoric@arirang.hr