Health and Safety Division
Power Plant Operations Training, Maintenance Training,
Simulator Training, Engineering Support and Commissioning Services
E.I Williams has delivered and supplied a wide range of training courses and engineering resources to the power generation industry for over 20 years.
The areas of training have included mechanical, electrical and Control and Instrumentation (C&I) maintenance skills training, power plant operations training including full scope simulator training for fossil, CCGT and CHP power stations, health and safety training, environmental training, mobile plant training and now, completing the one-stop shop facility, management and IT skills training.
We also have a work force of highly experienced power plant personnel including station managers, chemists, shift charge engineers, boiler and turbine specialists as well as site and commissioning engineers.
Our knowledge of the electricity supply industry has enabled E.I Williams to recruit and establish associations with key personnel from the industry. Our awareness has allowed E.I Williams to become market leaders in training and engineering services to the power generation industry.
From our offices in Canada we organise our nationwide network of professional engineers, technical trainers and associate trainers who deliver our services to our worldwide customers. These highly trained and motivated professionals are available to provide their specialist knowledge and skills in a cost-effective manner to the power generation and utility industries.
MAINTENANCE SKILLS TRAINING FOR THE POWER, UTLITIES AND PROCESS INDUSTRIES
Maintenance skills training can be delivered to all disciplines of maintenance staff working in the power, utilities and process industries. Whether apprentices, craftsmen, technicians or engineers, our courses are tailored to the appropriate level. Additionally, we have developed ad hoc training programmes for cross-skilling, multi-skilling and skill enhancement courses; for example, electrical to control and instrumentation, mechanical to electrical, or electrical to mechanical.
POWER PLANT OPERATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING
Operational skills training courses cover the plant and equipment used in the generation of electricity, production of steam, or any part of a process that needs to be operated effectively, safely and in an environmentally acceptable manner. Our training is aimed at ensuring that your staff operate with a sound understanding of the particular process, and include the following areas of the power generation industry:
* Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP)
* Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT)
* Fossil fired power plant - coal and oil
* Nuclear power - conventional plant
* Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant - gas turbine and IC engine powered
* Process utility plant - package or small boiler, small steam turbines, steam distribution systems
Operational skills training is available to all levels of personnel and, with access to power plant simulators, we can enhance the quality of operational skills training by providing “hands-on” opportunities to learn procedures and actions associated with start-up, shut down, routine operation and plant faults and emergencies.
HEALTH AND SAFETY - SAFETY PASSPORT TRAINING
Our in-house health and safety department also provides the power industry with both risk assessments and environmental and safety rules audit services, as well as a comprehensive programme of training courses for Senior Authorised Persons (SAP), Authorised Persons (AP) and Designated Persons (DP).
We deliver courses on fire fighting, noise assessments, manual handling and a complete range of mobile plant certification programmes. We offer Safety Passport Courses which cover a wide range of industries, and where power generation plants have come to the end of their working life, we also provide demolition risk assessment documentation (CDM Regs. and Safety Planning) and auditing services.
TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
Our Technical Publications and Printing Department have produced several distance learning programmes for the energy industry. We have provided both the production expertise and subject experts at all stages during the production of a programme, including graphics and final authoring.
We have produced distance learning courses for both the power generation industry and internal courses to meet individual company needs; these courses include subjects such as operation of power plant for conventional, nuclear, CHP and CCGT sites. The aim of these courses is to provide students with the underpinning knowledge in support of NVQs and SNVQs, assisted where appropriate by our network of tutors.
MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Management training was introduced to our already extensive portfolio of courses at the beginning of 2006. This area of training now includes such topics as: counselling in the workplace, facilitation and management of team briefings, industrial relations awareness, management and motivation (aimed at newly appointed team leaders), performance management, dignity at work, equal opportunities, setting performance targets and many more.
THERMAL POWER PLANT SIMULATOR
For safe, efficient and economical thermal power plant operation
There are a significant numbers of thermal power plants around the world and new plants based on coal firing are put into operation almost weekly. This creates an increasing need for trained thermal power plant personnel. We offer a thermal power plant simulator that fulfils these training requirements.
OUR SIMULATOR IS BEST SUITED FOR TRAINING
The thermal power plant simulator model is ideally suited for both the training of newly-hired employees and refresher courses of personnel with earlier experience. The main purpose of the Thermal Power Plant simulator is to train and assess operators in the operation of Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and in plant operation, including training in plant start-up and shut-down, emergency situations and safety procedures.
BASED ON A REAL PLANT
We acknowledge that thermal power plant training must be based upon real installations, therefore our thermal power plant simulator is modelled on the latest block (4) of a thermal power plant in Vesteraas, Sweden. The plant is fuelled with oil and coal. Oil is mainly for start-ups and safety support when on pulverized coal operation. At pure condensation operation the block produces a net electrical output of 250MW (190 MW for coal). The utility heating hot water effect at back pressure operation is 350MW with oil and 260 MW for coal.
Utilising real thermal power plant operation as the basis for simulation provides our customers with a strong foundation on which to base the training of their personnel, ensuring that their operational procedures and practices will enhance the plant economical efficiency and safety measures.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
The main purpose of the Thermal Power Plant simulator is to train and assess operators in general plant operation, including training in plant start-up and shut-down, supervision, monitoring and control during normal, emergency situations and in safety procedures.
In addition the simulator can be used as a powerful tool for engineers and plant management to verify process design and control strategies prior to start-up of a plant as well as investigation and testing of operational problems that are normally not allowable under real plant normal operating conditions.
Our simulator is highly flexible and can be used in a number of different ways to suit the changing needs of the thermal power plant. To date; some of these uses are:
* Test and tune control loops before implementing on a real system
* Test and modify logic in a dynamic environment
* Familiarise commissioning engineers with the plant and process dynamics
* Allow commissioning engineers to test out different start-up procedures
* Modify control and logic before installing on the real system
* Check out new controls and operating strategies
* Verify process design and study effects of modifications to the process by altering the model
* Optimise the control system and process to maximise economic performance
* Train the control operators and instrumental engineers prior to process start-up
* Familiarise and train new plant personnel before they are assigned to the plant
* Re-train experienced process operators to identify abnormal process conditions and methods of dealing with them
* Re-train experienced operators to optimise the process for maximum economic performance
READY MADE EXERCISES
We acknowledge that installing a simulator to train personnel is only one part of the equation. The training that is carried out must be structured and consistent. To assist our customers and increase training efficiency from simulation we have, together with our customers, developed a set of “ready to go” exercises as listed below:
* Exercise one: Test of combustion air fan at various load conditions
* Exercise two: The effect of shut off of high pressure feed water pre-heaters
* Exercise three: The use of one or three feed water pumps in operation
* Exercise four: The relationship between electric and heat production
* Exercise five: Heat balance in steam generator and fuel oil pre-heater
* Exercise six: The effect of decreasing the super-heater temperature
* Exercise seven: Power factors and Sankey-diagram
* Exercise eight: The effect of changing cooling water temperature
* Exercise nine: Change of the combustion air relative humidity
* Exercise ten: Heat effect and temperature distribution in boiler
* Exercise eleven: High pressure turbine in hs-diagram
* Exercise twelve: Intermediate turbine in hs-diagram
* Exercise thirteen: Combustion and boiler power factor
The simulator software is designed to enable a plug in CO2 trap system (option) when commercially available.
With our thermal power plant simulator and exercises you can perform and deliver structured, consistent training to your thermal power plant personnel and benefit from the improved efficiency and safety of their thermal power plant operations.
SIMULATED MODELS
The following simulated models are included:
* Fuel Oil System
* Secondary Steam System
* Boiler Combustion Control
* Burner Plane A
* Burner Plane B
* Burner Plane C
* Burner Plane D
* Block Master Control System
* Combustion Air / Flue Gas System
* Combustion Air Preheaters
* Boiler Water System
* Boiler Steam System
* Main Steam Lines
* Steam Plant Overview
* Steam Turbines
* Electric Generator
* Cold Condenser System
* Main Condensate System
* Low Pressure Feed Heaters
* Feed Water deaerator Tank System
* High Pressure Feed Heaters
* Make-up Deaerator System
* Hot Condenser System
* Direct Heater System
* Accumulator System
* DeNox Plant
* SCR Reactors (1&2)
* De-Sulphurization Plant
* Lime Silo
* Slake System
* Feeder system
* Absorber System
* Product System
* Mixing System
We are Members of the Electrical Generating Systems Association