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Virtual engineering for next-generation power plants

VE-PSI combines different types of engineering data to illustrate power plant designs in a virtual environment. This is a detailed look at a heat recovery steam generator.

VE-PSI combines different types
of engineering data to illustrate
power plant designs in a virtual
environment. This is a detailed
look at a heat recovery steam
generator.

Engineers designing tomorrow’s high-efficiency, low-emission power plants can now review and revise proposed designs more quickly, more efficiently and at less cost than ever before thanks to a virtual engineering software developed by two Ames Laboratory scientists. The Virtual Engineering Process Simulation Interface, created by Mark Bryden, program director for Ames Lab’s Simulation, Modeling and Decision Science program, and Doug McCorkle, an associate scientist at Ames Lab, combines information about process simulation with computer-aided design drawings and fluid dynamics data to create a comprehensive real-time graphic display of power plant designs.  Bryden and McCorkle received a 2009 R&D 100 Award for the VE-PSI software.

[Breehan Gerleman Lucchesi, 515.294.9750,
breehan@ameslab.gov]