Advanced GT Operations with Simulation Program Overview (10 day)

What will I learn from this course?

This course is conducted under extreme GT operating conditions provided by simulation. It is designed to test and sharpen advanced operators skills for the purpose of trip reduction & recovery, maintaining optimum performance & availability and development of basic alarm troubleshooting skills. Advanced GT events as trips, load rejection, runback, shutdown and critical alarms will be central topics of this program. The course will also deal with the analysis of the Trip Log identifying possible causes of a trip and control system fundamentals. This course is hands on.

Who should attend?

Qualified personnel who wish to benefit from the training & experience of handling, responding to and troubleshooting advanced GT operating events.

Prerequisites

Experienced or qualified personnel whom have already completed an approved GT Operations or Familiarization course.

Duration

10 days
Note: For 2009 this course has been changed to 10 days to allow for adequate coverage of the extensive content.

Agenda
Day 1 Documentation - O&M, RDM, Device Summary, P&IDs, Control file
 
Day 2 Control System Overview - TMR design & control philosophy
 
Day 3 Control System Software - Privileges, Forcing, Navigation, Utilities, Reports
 
Day 4 HMI (Cimplicity) Configuration - Control System point name extraction
 
Day 5 Alarm Troubleshooting - Basic
For a given Alarm follow to the singular field device or cause
 
Day 6 Alarm Troubleshooting - High Speed Data Collection & Analysis (Trender)
Capture data from multiple causes to identify the singular cause
 
Day 7 Advanced GT Events - Shutdowns, Runback & Load Rejection, Maintaining Optimum Performance
Experience advanced GT events, proper response, troubleshoot cause
 
Day 8 Advanced GT Events - Trips
Trip recovery, determining cause of a Not Ready to Start
 
Day 9 Evaluation & Analysis of Trip Log
 
Day 10 System Review

The following training dates are available in 2009:

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