scholarly journals 30 MEGAWATT HEAT EXCHANGER AND STEAM GENERATOR FOR SODIUM COOLED REACTOR SYSTEM. VOLUME IV. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES

1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Not Given Author



Author(s):  
Enrique Gomez ◽  
Roberto Ruiz ◽  
Robert M. (Con) Wilson

A stress analysis is described for a nuclear steam generator tubesheet with a thin or irregular ligament associated with a mis-drilled hole using the rules of ASME B&PV Section III and Non-Mandatory Appendix A, Article A-8000 for Stresses in Perforated Flat Plates. The analysis demonstrates the proper application of the NB-3200 rules for this special application with discussion of the differences between an actual tube hole deviation from what is assumed in ASME Appendix A. This is a companion paper to “Technical Justification Supporting Operation with a Tube Installed in a Mis-Drilled Hole of a Steam Generator Tubesheet”.





Author(s):  
Paul S. Weitzel

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W) has received a competitively bid award from the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy to perform the preliminary front-end engineering design of an advanced ultra-supercritical (A-USC) steam superheater for a future A-USC component test program (ComTest) achieving 760C (1400F) steam temperature. The current award will provide the engineering data necessary for proceeding to detail engineering, manufacturing, construction and operation of a ComTest. The steam generator superheater would subsequently supply the steam to an A-USC intermediate pressure steam turbine. For this study the ComTest facility site is being considered at the Youngstown Thermal heating plant facility in Youngstown, Ohio. The ComTest program is important because it would place functioning A-USC components in operation and in coordinated boiler and turbine service. It is also important to introduce the power plant operation and maintenance personnel to the level of skills required and provide initial hands-on training experience. Preliminary fabrication, construction and commissioning plans are to be developed in the study. A follow-on project would eventually provide a means to exercise the complete supply chain events required to practice and refine the process for A-USC power plant design, supply, manufacture, construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance. Representative participants would then be able to transfer knowledge and recommendations to the industry. ComTest is conceived as firing natural gas in a separate standalone facility that will not jeopardize the host facility or suffer from conflicting requirements in the host plant’s mission that could sacrifice the nickel alloy components and not achieve the testing goals. ComTest will utilize smaller quantities of the expensive materials and reduce the risk in the first operational practice for A-USC technology in the U.S. Components at suitable scale in ComTest provide more assurance before applying them to a full size A-USC demonstration plant. The description of the pre-front-end engineering design study and current results will be presented.





1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. L. Eisinger

Systems comprised of hot and cold components containing gaseous fluids may be subject to thermoacoustic oscillations if the temperature gradient between the two components exceeds a critical value. An evaluation of the Sondhauss-type and the Rijke-type thermoacoustic oscillations in combined turbine/heat exchanger/duct systems and furnace/burner systems will be presented. Parameters which will reduce or eliminate the likelihood of thermoacoustic oscillations in such systems are identified and discussed in this paper.



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