Dominion’s 1,346-MW Warren County Generating Station in Virginia uses a 3-on-1 configuration with Mitsubishis Hitachi Power Systems America 501GAC combustion turbines. High-efficiency, combined-cycle, ...

Faced with the necessity of doing more with less—and less-experienced—staff, the power business increasingly is turning to simulators for reliable and efficient real-world training. Training ...

The oil and gas production explosion is driving the renaissance of the chemical and process industries in North America. With low-cost natural gas comes low-cost feedstock for many chemical compounds, ...

DuPont is a big proponent of the digital twin, wherein all the elements and dynamics of physical plant assets can be replicated in software for process assessment and optimization and operator ...

DAVIDSON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) today announced that it has been awarded two contracts from TerraPower to design and supply plant simulation and digital control ...

The use of simulators for the training and qualification of nuclear power plant (NPP) control room operating personnel has become a standard practice throughout the world to develop and reinforce ...

Having proactively tracked operator performance since 2004, DuPont began to notice a clear trend developing a few years ago. Their operator performance was declining—an issue that coincided with an ...

Safety analysis and operational experience consistently indicate that human error is the greatest contributor to the risk of a severe accident in a nuclear power ...

Angela Alban, CEO, SIMETRI, describes how she built a medical simulation and training company from scratch. Based in Winter Park, Fla., SIMETRI manufactures state-of-the-art lifecycle designs of ...