One more year, Tecnatom presents its Report on Activities for the 2021 financial year, which includes the most relevant milestones of the Business Group during the past year. In this report you can find out the consolidated financial figures for both Tecnatom S.A. as of all the subsidiaries of the Tecnatom Group. A summary of the most important … Read more
Tecnatom has carried out an upgrade of the full-scope simulator at Cofrentes nuclear power plant to modernize the Honeywell distributed control system to the same version available at the plant. As part of the modernization, the entire control system Honeywell TPS has been migrated to an ACE (Application Control Environment) controller. This migration has been … Read more
What are Integrated control centers? The solution traditionally used to operate geographically dispersed power plants is to have an independent control center located at the site of each facility. This solution has major limitations in terms of taking advantage of the synergies related to the operation of the different facilities. An evolution of the traditional … Read more
In power generation plants, professionals of various profiles handle a large amount of documentation, related to a multitude of components distributed in very large installations and information scattered in different table-based management systems. A lot of people, a lot of documentation, a lot of equipment, little context… how can digitization help us to optimize this … Read more
In 2030 there is expected a 50% increase in the volume of goods movement compared to that recorded in 2001. An increase in transport needs will be accompanied by an equivalent increase in the impact on the environment produced by said transport and its associated infrastructures. Furthermore, society is demanding a greener energy generation as … Read more
At the beginning of this year Tecnatom signed a collaboration agreement between the two entities to provide training sessions for students of the Master’s Degree in Energy and the last years of the degree program of the School of Industrial Engineering. This training, which in turn forms part of the international training provided by the … Read more
One of the opportunities offered by cloud simulation is the possibility of carrying out remote simulator training. José Enrique Barranco, combined cycle operation instructor for 13 years, who has been a pioneer in this training modality within Tecnatom, tells us about his experience and the benefits that this possibility can bring. How did the opportunity … Read more
The City Council of San Sebastian de los Reyes activated on March 7 the humanitarian aid campaign for refugees and those affected by the conflict in Ukraine through the Municipal Solidarity Pantry. From Tecnatom we have made ourselves available to the City Council to be part of this initiative, which will not only be restricted … Read more
According to the EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) study Fossil Fuel Power Plant Simulators for Operator Training, approximately 20% of the combined cycle trips are directly linked to operator or maintenance personnel errors. Therefore, minimizing these errors through simulator training significantly reduces operating costs. Having a simulator for a specific combined cycle plant is sometimes … Read more
Tecnatom completes the project for the development of multi-technique inspection modules, MIMTECH, for the inspection of the calandria pressure tubes of the CANDU reactors. These modules can detect axial and circumferential cracks, both internal and external to the pressure vessel, as well as measuring distances between the pressure vessel itself and the calandria tubes, combining … Read more
El proyecto ITER es uno de los proyectos de inversión más grandes del mundo, en el que colaboran más de 35 países con el objetivo de demostrar la viabilidad de la fusión nuclear como fuente de energía inagotable. Para ello se está construyendo uno de los dispositivos de fusión por confinamiento magnético más grandes del mundo, en el que se probarán tecnologías, materiales y regímenes físicos integrados necesarios para la producción de electricidad basada en la fusión.
Tecnatom forma parte del proyecto aportando la creación de la plataforma de simulación de lo que será el simulador de la sala de control de ITER, la integración de modelos existentes desarrollados por distintos suministradores, la integración del sistema de control CODAC, el desarrollo de modelos adicionales, así como el mantenimiento y la formación en la plataforma.
