Recent Projects

Some of Our Recent Activities

3-D ANSYS Model for the Evaluation Of Thermal Shock

• Ultimate Heat Sink Evaluation - Effects of higher ultimate heat sink temperature in plant system performance.
  
  
• Determination of Plant Heat Loads and HVAC Calculations - Impact of higher cooling water temperature in room coolers performance.
  
  
• Chilled Water System Performance Evaluation - Simulation of chillers and off-design performance evaluation and determination of the operational limits.
  
  
• Spent Fuel Pool Performance Evaluation - Calculation of heat loads, pool temperature responses, local temperatures, CFD analysis using FLUENT program, core shuffling for optimum configuration.
  
  
• Spent Fuel Building Thermal Response - Loss of Spent Fuel Pool cooling and loss of ventilation system, potential for zirconium fire.
  
  
• Accident Analysis - High Energy Line Break Analysis, development of environmental profiles for equipment qualification.
  
  

  CFD Model of an Air Cooled Surface Condenser

• Off-site Dose Evaluation - Plan to update LOCA and Fuel Handling Accident.
  
  
• Equipment Qualification - Thermal lag analysis for electrical equipment, 3-D finite element analysis using ANSYS.
  
  
• Structural Integrity of Heat Exchangers - Evaluation for dynamic loading conditions and thermal transients, life expectancy evaluation.
  
  
• Heat Exchanger Flow Characterization - Velocity profiles in shell side of heat exchangers using HXFLOW program.
  
  
• Waterhammer in Containment Spray System - Fluid transient loads in spray rings during initial filling with the consideration of air cushioning.
  
  
• Evaluation of Loss of Ventilation - Transient 3-D assessment of temperature distribution due to natural convection using GOTHIC program.
  
  
• Evaluation of Thermal Shock - Transient 3-D ANSYS evaluation of effectiveness of thermal shield in an Isolation Condenser.