Simulation Training

Simulation-based training is one of the most effective methods of training the operations personnel of industrial plants. Simulators allow plant personnel to observe the consequences of their actions without any direct impact on actual plant operations. Through simulation-based exercises, trainees can learn how to respond to emergencies and how individual actions and decisions affect entire processes in an environment that mirrors situations they would normally encounter in a plant or facility.

New employees are of limited value to any facility due to their lack of knowledge and hands-on experience. Moreover, depending on your existing training program, it may take as long as several years before an engineer or operator accrues a comprehensive understanding of the operations of a facility. The focus of our training is to give inexperienced operators the knowledge and skills necessary to make them productive members at their workplace. Although plant configurations and technical specifications may vary from one facility to another, our approach to training is universal in nature and provides a 360-degree perspective on operations.

ESA innovative training approach blurs the line between traditional classroom and simulator training by combining both disciplines together. This synergy of technology, simulation and education provides students with visual and experiential learning that is safe, effective, time saving and cost efficient.

Simulators

ESA simulators are built using proven software tools used for high fidelity simulators in plants and industries across the world. The realism and accuracy of these simulators provides an excellent learning environment and assures training will result in the desired outcome. Each of the simulators is capable of covering a reference facility’s full range of operations. The simulators can be used for both normal and abnormal operations training as well as for teaching troubleshooting, team dynamics, procedure use and shift communications.

Each simulator is set in a state-of-the-art control room equipped with 10 operator displays, 5 operator workstations and 6 large wall cubes displays. The simulators include full emulation of the Distributed Control System (DCS) of each plant and screen graphics taken from actual plant control rooms.

The simulators cover five different types of industrial facilities:

Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
Waste heat from the exhaust of a gas turbine is directed into a Heat Recovery Steam Generator to produce steam, which is in turn used for generating additional electricity through a steam turbine. This increases the efficiency of electricity generation.

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Gas Turbine

The gas turbine extracts energy from a flow of hot gas produced by the combustion of gas in a stream of compressed air. An electrical generator coupled to the gas turbine produces electrical power for a power grid.

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Desalination Plant
24-stages of flash evaporators are used to produce fresh water from sea water using the Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) technology. Instantaneous evaporation occurs when heated sea water flows into a vacuum chamber at a temperature higher than the saturation temperature.

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Oil Refinery

Crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, heating oil, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas in an oil refinery using various process units such as the Crude Distillation Unit, Vacuum Distillation Unit and Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit.

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Oil & Gas Platform
Oil and natural gases are extracted from the ocean bed and processed in an offshore platform using multiple wellheads, a separation train, a gas compression train and water and gas injection systems.

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