CTI SIMULATION INTERNATIONAL

About Us:

Our Experience

Over 30 years of experience in the Power Plant Design Engineering and Construction discipline for nuclear and fossil power projects, with project experience ranging from Instrumentation and Controls, Simulation Analysis, to Project Engineering and Management activities.
As Consultant, our team participated in various multi-million dollars full scope power plant operator training simulator projects (nuclear and fossil) and rendered simulator consulting services: simulator acquisition project management, modeling development, consulting, simulator acceptance testing and training.
Successfully developed Simulation products - CASSIM^TM Software and Simulators which have achieved commercial success in corporations like Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), Daiwoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and an utility company in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Current simulators product line includes: (a) NPP Simulators – CANDU, PWR, BWR, ACR (Advanced CANDU) (b) Fossil Thermal Power Plant Simulators (c) Combined-Cycle Cogeneration (d) Solid waste incinerator power plant (e) Landfill gas power plant, fossil-fired power plant.
The Nuclear Simulator products have made significant contributions in Asian Pacific countries such as the nuclear human resources training project in Thailand. As well, the CTI NPP Simulators have been widely used as part of university's nuclear engineering education curriculum in key universities and institutes in Canada, U.S., Thailand, Japan, Romania, Poland, India, China.
It is recognized that our CASSIM^TM Software made important improvement in the manufacturing process (model-based process control checkout) for the Liquefied Natural Gas Carrier (LNGC) manufactured by Daiwoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. As such, our customer DSME Research unit was awarded high honor for their important achievement.
CTI delivered very successful training workshops for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on “NPP Simulators for Education” since 1999. Workshop attendance includes world-wide international audience - nuclear researchers, scientists, engineers, professors, regulators, managers, plant superintendent, and graduate students.

Our team was performing simulator model development and acceptance testing for a DCS based fossil-fired power plant.

Our Nuclear Power Plant (CANDU 900 MWe) Simulator was utilized for the modern control room design by a nuclear reactor vendor (AECL). The CTI NPP simulator provided dynamic transient data to the Plant Display System (PDS) in the control room, which generated alarms, status indication for equipment and devices, and time trends for critical parameters, etc., as part of the man-machine interface (MMI) testing and verification exercise.

Our team member was delivering the "NPP Simulators for Education" Workshop for IAEA. Integral part of the workshop is hands-on experience by Member States participants in utilizing the NPP simulators to gain insight of various advanced reactor types, their operational characteristics, and their responses to perturbations and accident situations.

Our Reports and Publications

PUBLICATION

Gaining Competitive Advantage in Combined-Cycle Power Plant Operations, Electric Power Conference 2005, Chicago, U.S.A., April 5-7, 2005.
A Multi-Nodal Thermal-Hydraulic Model for U-Tube Steam Generator, 9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-9), San Francisco, California, October 3 - 8, 1999.
A Functional Model for Simulator Based Training in the Pacific Basin, 11th Pacific Basic Nuclear Conference, Banff, Canada, May 3 - 7, 1998.
Multi-Purpose Use of the Advanced CANDU Compact Simulator, 5th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Operations and Safety (NUTHOS-5), Beijing, April 14 - 18, 1997.
CASSIM^TM software and Compact Training Simulators - Major Goals, Advantages and Future Directions, International Conference on Training Operators and Safety Operations of NPPs, Beijing, September 16 - 18, 1997.
Simulation Based Reactor Control Design Methodology for CANDU 9, Canadian Nuclear Society 5th International Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 8 - 11, 1996.
A Simulator Based Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) System Addition For Operator Training, Simulation Multiconference on International Simulators, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A, March 29 - April 1, 1993

REPORTS & MANUALS

Consultant Reports for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
(a) Reactor Simulator Development – IAEA Training Course Series 12-2001 (IAEA-TCS-12, ISSN-1018-5518).
(b) Boiling Water Reactor Simulator – IAEA Training Course Series 22 – 2003 (IAEA-TCS-22. ISSN-1018-5518).
(c) Pressurized Water Reactor Simulator – IAEA Training Course Series 23 - 2003 (IAEA-TCS-23, ISSN-1018-5518).
(d) Advanced CANDU (ACR-700) Reactor Simulator – IAEA Training Course Series.
Consultant Report for Ontario Hydro Fossil Simulator Project - OH Fossil Training Simulator Design Requirements and Technical Specification Document.
Research Project Report – Application of Expert Systems to Advanced Process Analysis and Control – joint report submitted to PRECARN Associates by OH, CAE and U. of T. (one of the contributors).
Report for Darlington NPP “A” Full Scope Simulator – Proposal Report for Using Programmable Controller Input/Output Electrical Interfacing Standards in Substitution for Electrical Wiring Diagrams in the Development of Control Logic Simulation Module for Process Systems.
Report for Darlington NPP “A” Full Scope Simulator - Mathematical Modeling Reports for Electrics and some Balance of Plant Systems
Report for Darlington NPP “A” Full Scope Simulator - Software Utilities Report for Supporting Instructor Facility and Computerized Testing System (one of the contributors).