Water Thermal-Hydraulics (T/H) loop for open-access R&D at M-SParc
- Designed, built and operated by Nuclear Futures Bangor RDTH
- Yields an accessible platform for collaboration partners and other interested parties
- Creates local and national capability & competence within the T/H field
- Supports development of instrumentation, digital infrastructure and rig hardware
- Applies a step-wise approach through an upgradeable and modifiable concept
First, generic procurement phase completed in April 2020
- Variable speed pump; secondary heat exchanger
- Flow meter; high speed camera and supporting stereo vision camera systems
- Data acquisition systems; computation system; controls and instrumentation infrastructure, software and hardware
Optimised design from September 2020
- Proceeding from major component layout to loop simulation, dimensioning and component design
- Hall preparations and design finalisation underway
- Platform for digital twinning – Nuclear Virtual Engineering Capability
- Manufacture and first installations underway