Control rooms are essential for the safety and correct operation of any electric power plant. They monitor and analyze everything related to the process, detect incidents that occur during generation and take the necessary actions in accordance with operating procedures. It happens that, unlike conventional generation plants such as thermal or nuclear power plants, in … Read more
ITER Organization awarded in May 2021 to the consortium formed by Tecnatom and Cosylab the contract for the supply of the simulation platform with which the ITER fusion plant simulator will be developed. Leading simulation companies from ITER member countries participated in the bidding process. The tandem Tecnatom, expert in simulator development and leader of … Read more
Last August the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, visited the facilities of the Center of Excellence in Non-Destructive Testing of the Spanish Air and Space Army at its Albacete Training Facility. She made a productive visit during which she received explanations on the operation of the two robotic systems supplied by Tecnatom, the ultrasonic inspection … Read more
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
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.
