ttc was awarded the contract for supply of an extensive training and testing system for Transpetrol’s Druzhba and Adria operational staff.
The operator’s workplace will use the SCADA system identical with the customer’s real-time package – Citect. The system also includes the trainer’s workstation for managing the operator’s activity. Plant behaviour transformed into simulated SCADA signals is provided by PipeCoach, the simulator from ttc’s family of pipeline management products branded as PipeMan.
The number of simulated signals exceeds 12,000. The simulated pipeline network includes multiple pump stations, network of up to four parallel, interconnected pipelines, branchings, terminals, tank farms, import inlets and export outlets.
Operator can send any commands to the simulated plant the same way like in the real-time SCADA workstation. The experience is very realistic, with dynamic changes in pressures, flows, volumes, tank levels, limit switches and other analogue, pulse or digital signals. All alarms, events, trends and mimic pictures are processed same way like in real-time SCADA.
The trainer can choose a saved scenario, schedule events or directly change any tags. Therefore the staff can be trained and tested in all standard, but also emergency situations like pump trips or leaks.