Cleaner Power through Collaboration
The AVESTAR™ Center seeks to provide comprehensive training and innovative collaborative energy research opportunities by bringing together state-of-the-art dynamic simulators, virtual reality technology, and energy experts dedicated to the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of advanced power generation systems that also protect the environment.
The Center was established as part of the DOE’s initiative to accelerate the widespread commercial deployment of advanced energy technologies that have increased efficiency and reliability, superior operational flexibility, better controllability, enhanced safety, and reduced environmental impact.
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| AVESTAR™ Center experts, facilities, and simulators offer unique opportunities for promoting collaboration on clean energy training, research, and education |
The AVESTAR™ Center offers full-scope, high-fidelity, real-time dynamic simulators with operator training systems (OTS) for a coal-, biomass-, or
petroleum coke-fueled power plant using Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) technology with 90% pre-combustion CO2 capture, as
well as low sulfur, mercury, and NOx emissions. The IGCC dynamic simulator provides highly realistic training on normal base-load power operation, plant startups, shutdowns, power load shedding, and fuel switching, as well as abnormal situations involving equipment malfunctions and failures.
By providing hands-on simulator-based training, the AVESTAR™ Center aims to develop a workforce well prepared to manage the complex and large-scale operation and control of commercial power generation plants. With support from the NETL-Regional University Alliance (NETL-RUA), the Center also promotes NETL’s education and applied research collaboration mission. The NETL-RUA partnership leverages AVESTAR™ facilities, dynamic simulators, and other resources by making them available to researchers and university students, producing greater results than what could have been achieved by any of the individual organizations acting alone.
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