**3. Description of the simulator**

### **3.1 Hardware configuration**

The simulation sessions are initiated and guided from the Instructor Console (IC). It consists in one PC (or simulation node) with two monitors. Two operators stations replicate the real control stations from the plant. Each of these stations has two monitors and one wall mounted screens (54") to manage and control the simulated power plant. There is an additional PC that is used as a backup and to make modifications to the software, process or control models and where they are tested and validated by an instructor before to install it in the simulator. Figure 3 presents a view of the simulator.

Fig. 3. GT simulator installed in the client facilities.
