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Schulz Electric™ Refurbishes Critical Circulating Water Pump Motor in Only Four Days
Schulz Electric™ was contacted by a nuclear power plant in the New England region that serves a community of over 2 million homes. After five years of service, a 1500 HP, 4 kV, 24-pole circulating water pump motor (measuring approximately 7’ wide, 8’ tall, and weighing several tons) needed refurbishing while the plant was still online. To add to their concern, the power plant is located close to the ocean. The aging motor was not only approaching the end of its serviceable life, but was highly susceptible to moisture intrusion and the salt-laden air, which can build up in air passages within the motor. These environmental conditions can lead to elevated operating temperatures and corrosion developing on the rotor, stator, and shaft components. These factors combined, placed the plant at an increased risk of downtime that could have potentially led to a significant loss of revenue if they were forced into a shutdown event.
D.S. Barnett, M.S. Kazimi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 839-846
Safety and Environment — I | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39799
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The LITFIRE code was modified and used to model lithium chemical reactions with steam-air mixtures in situations representative of accidental spills in fusion reactors. New water pool nodes were added to the primary and secondary cells representing the reactor and its building. An iterative energy balance routine was developed to determine the temperature of the cell gas; heat transfer to structures was modified to include the effect of water condensation and the cell gas emissivity calculation was changed to account for the presence of polar water vapor molecules. Calculations were performed describing a spill on the building floor as well as a spill within the plasma chamber. Humidity and steam injection were also represented. The results indicated that the primary effect of the steam was to raise the emissivity of the cell gas, and thus the gas temperature and pressure, while reducing somewhat the temperatures of both the lithium combustion zone above the pool and the lithium pool itself.