THOR - Thermal-Hydraulics Open-access Research

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

• 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