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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.
S. Kobayashi, T. Shimizu, Y. Seki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1008-1012
Safety And Environment — II | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39825
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If a loss-of-coolant accident occurs in a fusion reactor, the temperature in the vacuum vessel will rise. If the decay heat is not removed, then the plasma vacuum boundary may melt. In this paper, the effects of the decay heat in a LOCA are analysed numerically based on the Fusion Experimental Reactor (FER). ... the fusion power: ∼ 460 MW. In the case of a loss-of-coolant accident with the plasma shut down, it is assumed that the decay heat is removed by the radiation of the divertor only. If the radiant effect is a quarter of the black radiation, the divertor plate will not melt, because the temperature rise is less than 150 K. Secondly, it is assumed that the decay heat is removed by the radiation between the outer shield and the heat shield. When the initial shield temperature is low and the amount of the shield is large, the temperature rise is negligible, because the heat capacity is large enough to absorb the heat. The effect of the natural convection outside of the cryostat is negligible to remove the heat.