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Heysham II/Torness AGR steam generator

Abstract

The AGR Steam Generators for Heysham II and Torness Power Stations have been installed at site and are being operated in the initial low temperature commissioning plant engineering tests. In this paper a description of the high pressure once-through steam generators together with layout arrangements, materials employed, operating parameters, plant operating conditions and constraints is given. An outline of the development of the design through thermo-hydraulic considerations, mechanical design, instrumentation to component testing is presented. Special features of the design directed to accommodate such requirements as seismic loadings, waterside static and dynamic stability, gas flow induced vibration, thermal expansions are described in detail. The fabrication facilities employed and techniques selected and developed for the manufacture and assembly of the heating surfaces are presented. These include welding processes, tube manipulation and heat treatment with details of the automation applied to the processes. Operating experience in the early commissioning plant engineering tests at Site is described with an emphasis on those tests which provide the final confirmation of the design prior to operation at full load. The paper concludes with a description of the outstanding commissioning activities up to raise power. (author)
Authors:
Charcharos, A N; [1]  Wood, M B; Glasgow, J R [2] 
  1. National Nuclear Corporation Ltd., Knutsford (United Kingdom)
  2. NEI Power Projects Ltd., Gateshead (United Kingdom)
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1988
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
IWGGCR-15
Reference Number:
EDB-01:001752
Resource Relation:
Conference: Specialists' meeting on technology of steam generators for gas-cooled reactors, Winterthur (Switzerland), 9-12 Mar 1987; Other Information: 23 figs, 3 tabs; PBD: 1988; Related Information: In: Technology of steam generators for gas-cooled reactors. Proceedings of a specialists' meeting, 236 pages.
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; DYNAMIC LOADS; HEYSHAM-B REACTOR; HYDRODYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION; SEISMIC EFFECTS; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS; STEAM GENERATORS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TORNESS REACTOR
OSTI ID:
20113022
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, International Working Group on Gas-Cooled Reactors, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: XA0056039057140
Availability:
Available from INIS in electronic form
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 57-76
Announcement Date:
Jan 15, 2001

Citation Formats

Charcharos, A N, Wood, M B, and Glasgow, J R. Heysham II/Torness AGR steam generator. IAEA: N. p., 1988. Web.
Charcharos, A N, Wood, M B, & Glasgow, J R. Heysham II/Torness AGR steam generator. IAEA.
Charcharos, A N, Wood, M B, and Glasgow, J R. 1988. "Heysham II/Torness AGR steam generator." IAEA.
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author = {Charcharos, A N, Wood, M B, and Glasgow, J R}
abstractNote = {The AGR Steam Generators for Heysham II and Torness Power Stations have been installed at site and are being operated in the initial low temperature commissioning plant engineering tests. In this paper a description of the high pressure once-through steam generators together with layout arrangements, materials employed, operating parameters, plant operating conditions and constraints is given. An outline of the development of the design through thermo-hydraulic considerations, mechanical design, instrumentation to component testing is presented. Special features of the design directed to accommodate such requirements as seismic loadings, waterside static and dynamic stability, gas flow induced vibration, thermal expansions are described in detail. The fabrication facilities employed and techniques selected and developed for the manufacture and assembly of the heating surfaces are presented. These include welding processes, tube manipulation and heat treatment with details of the automation applied to the processes. Operating experience in the early commissioning plant engineering tests at Site is described with an emphasis on those tests which provide the final confirmation of the design prior to operation at full load. The paper concludes with a description of the outstanding commissioning activities up to raise power. (author)}
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year = {1988}
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