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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Thomas J. Kissner, Ronald E. Wieneke
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 583-587
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29810
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The Tritium Emissions Reduction Facility (TERF) is an automated process that continuously removes tritium from process gases before they are discharged to the atmosphere. Key control parameters include: temperature, pressure, flow, oxygen content, total combustibles, moisture concentrations and tritium concentrations. The procurement of an industrial, microprocessor-based Distributed Process Control System was justified for TERF due to the critical nature and complexity of the system. A detailed performance specification was prepared and submitted to industrial companies who had demonstrated past success in the field of process control and instrumentation. The contract was awarded to the Foxboro Company, of Foxboro, Ma., who developed the new Intelligent Automation (I/A) Distributed Process Control System. A primary goal of the design team was that the control system increase TERF reliability and availability by automatically controlling system operation and by assisting the operator in the diagnosis of problems, preventative maintenance, alarming, report generation, and long term storage of data. The comprehensive continuous monitoring of the TERF process provided by the Foxboro I/A Distributed System is expected to: (1) optimize the system operating parameters and control the process better than was previously possible, (2) provide more alerts and alarms to aid operators in diagnosing and responding to problems, and (3) record and organize process data more effectively than before.
