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The National Energy Center of Excellence (NECE) offers an online source of training aids and resources comprised of animations and simulations designed for training employees in the energy industry.  Trainers and supervisors will find these Interactive Learning Tools (ILTs) valuable resources to enhance their training program.

"These are some of the best single purpose simulations I've run across to date. The concepts are well represented graphically and the controls are quite intuitive.  I look forward to BSC offering more tools like these to add to my company's operator training offerings." Bryan Clark - Pepco Holdings

Power plant facility at dusk with a large cooling tower emitting steam, several tall smokestacks releasing vapor, and a domed building illuminated with yellow lights, all reflected in a calm body of water in the foreground.

 

Industry Resource Connection

Click on the headings below to learn more about the individual options for Interactive Learning Tools (ILTs) within the Industry Resource Connection at BSC.  These ILTs are ideal for use in classroom sessions, live presentations, computer lab training, on-the-job training, apprenticeship training and internships.
Nuclear Power Technology
Nuclear Power ILTs focus on theory, operations, instrumentation, and safety topics related to the nuclear power industry. Industry Resource Connection includes ILTs such as: Physics, Nuclear Chemistry, Reactors, Instrumentation and Human performance labs.
 
Nuclear Power Plant
Power Generation Technology
Power Generation ILTs focus on operation topics for the power generation industry. Industry Resource Connection includes ILTs such as: Process Controller, Deaerator Storage Tank, Valve Cutaways, Turbine Animation, Hydraulic System, Feed Water Heater, Hydraulic System, Differential Pressure Filter, Lockout Tagout Lab, Control Loop Connection and Plant Trip Logic.
 
Power Plant Tech
 
Process & Petroleum Industry
Process & Petroleum Industry ILTs focus on operation topics for refineries, ethanol plants, natural gas processing facilities, gasification plants, petrochemical plants and petroleum production sites including exploration, drilling, production, and processing. Industry Resource Connection includes ILTs such as: Process Controller, Valve Cutaways, Turbine Animation, Hydraulic System, Dehydration Unit, Refrigeration Unit, Amine Unit, Sulfur Recovery, Biofuel Feedstock Preparations, Deaerator Storage Tank, Ethanol Evaporator, Well and Tank Batter Process Flow, Pumping Unit, Two-Phase Separator, Vertical Heater Treater and Wellhead Installation.
 
Process and Petroleum Industry
 
Transmission and Distribution
Transmission & Distribution ILTs focus on the electric power system operations including basic electricity, generation, distribution and transmission. Industry Resource Connection includes ILTs such as: Power Flow Simulator, Power Transformer & Substation Simulator, Variable Transformer, DC Tie, DC Circuit, AC Generator, AC Capacitor, Bus Synch and Rotating Phasors.
 
Transmission and Distribution
 
Water and Wastewater Technology
Water & Wastewater Industry ILTs focus on the operation of various types of equipment within water and wastewater treatment facilities. Industry Resource Connection includes ILTs such as: Water Treatment Plant Overview, Virtual Potable Water Plant Tour, Ion Exchange, Clarifiers, Sedimentation Basin, Centrifuges, Titration Lab, PPE Equipment, LOTO Lab, Compressors, Valve and Pump Cutaways, Control Loop Controllers, Differential Pressure Filter, Ph Lab Activity, Chemistry Concepts, Electrical Symbols, Multimeter Lab.
 
License and Terms: Purchase of an ILT license grants access to online resources for internal company employee training. License grants six (6) months of access for up to twenty-five (25) concurrent users at a single company facility; additional users or additional facilities requires the purchase of additional licenses. Upon receipt of registration, access to the ILTs will be granted within three (3) business days. Cancellations for purchased licenses must be received within 24 hours of receipt of registration confirmation.  Click BSC License Agreement for Educational Services for additional terms and conditions of use.

ONLINE REGISTRATION: Credit Card or Electronic Check payment accepted.

Questions?  Contact the National Energy Center of Excellence at 701.224.2519 or 800.852.5685 or email bsc.energytraining@bismarckstate.edu and ask about our Industry Resource Connection ILT Simulators.

Online Simulators

BSC has a series of comprehensive, full-fidelity simulators to provide you and your future operators with the knowledge and familiarity needed to safely and efficiently manage energy facilities. These simulators allow students to perform complete startups, shutdowns, and numerous operational activities, as well as realistically replicate normal and abnormal events. These simulators can be accessed through a web-based simulator interface, allowing the use of the simulator over the Internet from anywhere in the world.
ADU (Atmospheric Distillation Unit) Simulator
ADU SimulatorThis simulator consists of a natural gas heated boiler to process crude oil though an atmospheric distillation unit to produce the products of naphtha, kerosene, gas/oil as well as a gas product though the overhead accumulator. The simulator will allow the student to regulate product into the ADU and maintain product quality output.
Combined Cycle Simulator
Combined Cycle SimulatorThis full fidelity simulator represents a combined-cycle plant, consisting of two gas turbine generators (GT), two Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG), and one steam turbine generator (ST). Each gas turbine generator (GT) exhausts into a HRSG to form two independent GT/HRSG trains. Steam generated by the hot GT exhaust gases flowing through each HRSG is routed to the unit's steam turbine generator (ST). The ST exhausts into a surface condenser, and the condensate from the condenser hotwell is returned to the HRSG's. An open loop circulating water system, complete with cooling towers, removes the heat from the condenser and rejects the heat to atmosphere.
DCS Fossil Simulator
DCS Fossil SimulatorThis simulator represents a 600 MW coal fired electrical power plant. The control interface uses Ovation DCS control interface. The furnace/boiler consists of a tangential forced circulation boiler with four CE/ABB pulverizers and #2 diesel oil guns. The water system consists of 2 high pressure feedwater heaters, deaerator, and 1 low pressure feedwater heaters with a steam driven and electric startup boiler feed pump. The condensate system consists of a hotwell and a condensate pump. This is a balance draft furnace with one force draft fan, one induced draft fan and one primary air fan with a regenerative air heater. The turbine/generator represents a General Electric system with full and partial arc control. The simulator also includes predesigned malfunctions.
Nuclear Simulator
Nuclear SimulatorThis full fidelity simulator is a Pressurized Light Water Reactor with two circulation loops, two vertical steam generators and four reactor coolant transfer pumps. The Reactor total thermal power is 3983 MW and the turbine electric power is 1400 MW. Turbine rotation speed is 3000 rpm. The steam generators supply steam to the turbine, which consists of high pressure turbine and three low pressure turbine cylinders. Condensate is pumped from three condensers by the condensate pumps through low pressure heaters to the suction of 2 turbine driven feedwater pumps. The feedwater pumps provide necessary feed flow to the steam generators through high pressure heaters. Four moister separator reheaters separate moisture from high pressure turbine exhaust steam, reheat it in two stage reheaters, and direct steam to the low pressure turbines.
PGL (Power Grid Lab) Electrical Simulator
PLG Electrical SimulatorThis simulator consists of two hydroelectric power generation stations, a transmission system and a distribution system with electrical loads. One of the hydro plants operates at 90 RPMs and the other at 180 RPMs. The controls replicate both hardpanel switches and analog as well as digital indication. Each hydroelectric power generation station has all the controls required for a complete startup and shutdown, as well as for synchronizing two generators together. The power grid system represents a typical switchyard and how to route power though a transmission system as well as a distribution system.
Soft Panel Fossil Simulator
Soft Panel Fossil SimulatorThis simulator represents a 600 MW coal fired electrical power plant. The control interface is an analog control interface. The furnace/boiler consists of a tangential forced circulation boiler with four CE/ABB pulverizers and #2 diesel oil guns. The water system consist of 2 high pressure feedwater heaters, deaerator and 1 low pressure feedwater heaters with a steam driven and electric startup boiler feed pump. The condensate system consist of a hotwell and a condensate pump. This is a balance draft furnace with one force draft fan, one induced draft fan and one primary air fan with a regenerative air heater. The turbine/generator represents a General Electric system with full and partial arc control. The simulator also includes predesigned malfunctions.
Questions?  Contact the National Energy Center of Excellence at 701.224.2519 or 800.852.5685 or email bsc.energytraining@bismarckstate.edu and ask about our Online Simulators to schedule a demonstration and discuss pricing options.