System Verification Through Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) Analysis & Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs)

Conference · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2011

OSTI ID:1027894

Opare, Jr, Emmanuel Ohene; Park, Charles V

The Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Project, managed by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), is authored by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, to research, develop, design, construct, and operate a prototype fourth generation nuclear reactor to meet the needs of the 21st Century. A section in this document proposes that the NGNP will provide heat for process heat applications. As with all large projects developing and deploying new technologies, the NGNP is expected to meet high performance and availability targets relative to current state of the art systems and technology. One requirement for the NGNP is to provide heat for the generation of hydrogen for large scale productions and this process heat application is required to be at least 90% or more available relative to other technologies currently on the market. To reach this goal, a RAM Roadmap was developed highlighting the actions to be taken to ensure that various milestones in system development and maturation concurrently meet required availability requirements. Integral to the RAM Roadmap was the use of a RAM analytical/simulation tool which was used to estimate the availability of the system when deployed based on current design configuration and the maturation level of the system.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1027894
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-10-20342
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

08 HYDROGEN
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
AVAILABILITY
CONFIGURATION
DESIGN
ENERGY POLICY
HYDROGEN
INEEL
MARKET
NGNP
PERFORMANCE
PROCESS HEAT
RAM analysis
REACTORS
RELIABILITY
TARGETS
VERIFICATION
technology readiness