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Development of the Marine Diesel Plant Simulator with PC Network
Fumio SODA*, Masaki TANAKA** and Kazuo MATSUSHIMA***
ABSTRACT
Recently, discussions on new installation of training simulators are blowing up. Those discussions are came out mainly because of the enforcement of Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW95) convention near future, and other ship operation circumstance reasons. Generally, basic requirements for ship operation / operators are reduction of manning cost, effectiveness of ship operation which means reduction of fuel cost, maintenance cost, etc., and maintaining safety of ship operation, those might contradict each other.
Therefore, to achieve those contradict requirements, training and education of the ship's operator very effectively in a short period by utilizing simulator are or shall be taking very important part for those requirements. For example, the training simulator can be utilized for the acquirement of ship operation, such as, the repetitive training of plant operation until ship operator acquire skills and also suitable for the experience on abnormal situation which is very difficult to encounter on the real machineries onboard vessels that might damaged at such abnormal condition.
On the other hand, from the viewpoint of computer / electronic systems, networking systems and its environment, progresses in performance, capacity, operating software, etc. are enormous. Originally we developed EWS basis simulator systems for diesel plant turbine plant, etc. Therefore, taking this opportunity we reviewed hardware configuration of the simulator system.
This report introduces our development of diesel engine plant simulator system of international standard PCs with network that meets above requirements.
Key Words : Education and Training Simulator Application to Marine Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Personal Computer, Ethernet Network
1. INTRODUCTION
Recently, discussions on new installation of training simulators are blowing up. Those discussions are came out mainly because of the enforcement of Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW95) convention near future, and other ship operation circumstance reasons. Generally, basic requirements for ship operation / operators are reduction of manning cost, effectiveness of ship operation which means reduction of fuel COSL maintenance cost, etc., and maintaining safety of ship operation, those might contradict each other.
Therefore, to achieve those contradict requirements, training and education of the ship's operator very effectively in a short period by utilizing simulator are or shall be taking very important part for those requirements. For example, the training simulator can be utilized for the acquirement of ship operation, such as, the repetitive training of plant operation until ship operator acquire skills and also suitable for the experience on abnormal situation which is very difficult to encounter on the real machineries onboard vessels that might be damaged at such abnormal condition.
The introduction of a simulator with the following features is highly needed and is actually an effective training and education tool for ship engineers.
(1) The trainee is repeatedly able to train till they acquire skills in the short-term, without having to be concerned about such things as fuel oil consumption, voyages and personal arrangement onboard.
(2) The trainee is able to train in accordance with each level of the trainee's skill from beginner level to advanced level.
(3) The trainee is able to experience the difficulty of abnormal traiming without real danger and actual damage to onboard machinery.
(4) The trainee easily can experience various external environmental conditions, for example, tropical condition.
(5) The trainee is easily able to change the simulation time interval, for example, half (1/2) or two (2) times long as the actual time interval.
(6) The trainee is able to return to the past simulation training sessions and review them.
On the other hand, the engine plant training simulator is actually effective as an educational tool for the student toward ship engineer, for the beginners' educational and for the operation trainings before and after an actual ship onboard trainings.
In 1974 we first developed the turbine plant simulator and have since developed various ship and power plant operation training simulators. Our company is a shipyard that carries out planning designing outfitting and operation of ships, furthermore we are manufacturers of turbines, boilers, diesel engines, automatic control systems etc. We have also supplied various real simulators with the precise simulation models using actual plant design data and dynamic characteristics.
To realize a real and precise simulator, high-speed digital computer is indispensable, therefore we adopted the engineering work staltion (EWS).
