Background: Off-Site Modular Construction (OSMC) can decrease direct costs by 20-80%[1]. Utilizing OSMC presents exponentially more options for plant designers, along with the configurations presented by cogeneration options such as desalination, residential/ industrial heat, cogeneration, hydrogen production.
Objective: It has…
The current strategy for joining ITER diverter cooling pipes is to conduct semi-automated autogenous Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding on thin-walled pipes using an inserted flat washer filler ring. In this approach, the positioning of the filler ring and the alignment the pipe stubs so far can only be achieved manually. However, it has limitatio…
As part of the European Power Plant Conceptual Study, two different divertor designs were proposed, based on previous work on HETS (High Efficiency Thermal Shield) performed at FZK and ENEA. The coolant is helium gas at pressures in the range 10-14 MPa and the inlet temperatures are in the range of 500-800 o C. The geometrical complexity of the des…
