US and India confer on cooling water system
25 Oct 2010
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Warren Curd, Cooling Water Section Leader
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The international cooling water team last week in Cadarache.
The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ cooling water system is all cool. Last week, representatives from the two procuring parties—the US °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project Office and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ India—plus their contractors A/E Areva FS and consultants from Nuclear Power Corporation India Limited and Engineers India Limited, as well as staff from the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Cooling Water Section—moved the project a big step forward. In a series of meetings, US-°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ reconciled their component delivery dates with the need dates given in the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ assembly schedule and further developed the optimization of shop fabrication and field assembly requirements.
The focus of the meetings with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ India was the optimization of the design of the heat rejection system and the component cooling water system. This optimization focused on the size and number of cooling towers, water basin size, and size and number of heat exchangers. Also included in these discussions were the instrumentation and controls for the Indian scope of supply.