Hazards Analysis, Code Compliance & Procedure Development

Services to identify process safety hazards and facilitate compliance with established standards and codes.

Combustible Dust Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify dust explosion and reactivity hazards

Flammable Gas & Vapor Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify explosion hazards for vapor and gas mixtures

Chemical Reactivity Testing

Laboratory testing to quantify reactive chemical hazards, including the possibility of material incompatibility, instability, and runaway chemical reactions

ISO Accreditation and Scope
Fauske & Associates fulfills the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 in the field of Testing
DIERS Methodology

Design emergency pressure relief systems to mitigate the consequences of unwanted chemical reactivity and account for two-phase flow using the right tools and methods

Deflagrations (Dust/Vapor/Gas)

Properly size pressure relief vents to protect your processes from dust, vapor, and gas explosions

Effluent Handling

Pressure relief sizing is just the first step and it is critical to safety handle the effluent discharge from an overpressure event

Thermal Stability

Safe storage or processing requires an understanding of the possible hazards associated with sensitivity to variations in temperature

UN-DOT

Classification of hazardous materials subject to shipping and storage regulations

Safety Data Sheets

Develop critical safety data for inclusion in SDS documents

Biological

Model transport of airborne virus aerosols to guide safe operations and ventilation upgrades

Radioactive

Model transport of contamination for source term and leak path factor analysis

Fire Analysis

Model transport of heat and smoke for fire analysis

Flammable or Toxic Gas

transport of flammable or toxic gas during a process upset

OSS consulting, adiabatic & reaction calorimetry and consulting

Onsite safety studies can help identify explosibility and chemical reaction hazards so that appropriate testing, simulations, or calculations are identified to support safe scale up

Mechanical, Piping, and Electrical

Engineering and testing to support safe plant operations and develop solutions to problems in heat transfer, fluid flow, electric power systems

Battery Safety

Testing to support safe design of batteries and electrical power backup facilities particularly to satisfy UL9540a ed.4

Hydrogen Safety

Testing and consulting on the explosion risks associated with devices and processes which use or produce hydrogen

Spent Fuel

Safety analysis for packaging, transport, and storage of spent nuclear fuel

Decommissioning, Decontamination and Remediation (DD&R)

Safety analysis to underpin decommissioning process at facilities which have produced or used radioactive nuclear materials

Laboratory Testing & Software Capabilities

Bespoke testing and modeling services to validate analysis of DD&R processes

Nuclear Overview

Our Nuclear Services Group is recognized for comprehensive evaluations to help commercial nuclear power plants operate efficiently and stay compliant.

Severe Accident Analysis and Risk Assessment

Expert analysis of possible risk and consequences from nuclear plant accidents

Thermal Hydraulics

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Environmental Qualification (EQ) and Equipment Survivability (ES)

Testing and analysis to ensure that critical equipment will operate under adverse environmental conditions

Laboratory Testing & Software Capabilities

Testing and modeling services to support resolution of emergent safety issues at a power plant

Adiabatic Safety Calorimeters (ARSST and VSP2)

Low thermal inertial adiabatic calorimeters specially designed to provide directly scalable data that are critical to safe process design

Other Lab Equipment and Parts for the DSC/ARC/ARSST/VSP2 Calorimeters

Products and equipment for the process safety or process development laboratory

FERST

Software for emergency relief system design to ensure safe processing of reactive chemicals, including consideration of two-phase flow and runaway chemical reactions

FATE

Facility modeling software mechanistically tracks transport of heat, gasses, vapors, and aerosols for safety analysis of multi-room facilities

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Recent Posts

Thermal Hydraulic Analysis and RELAP5 In Nuclear Engineering

Posted by The Fauske Team on 08.08.17

Thermal hydraulic analysis is currently one of the most searched terms related to nuclear engineering. Vextor Experiment

Per Wikipedia: "Thermal hydraulics (also called thermohydraulics) is the study of hydraulic flow in thermal fluids. A common example is steam generation in power plants and the associated energy transfer to mechanical motion and the change of states of the water while undergoing this process."

The Reactor Excursion and Leak Analysis Program (RELAP5) is a light water reactor transient analysis code developed for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) for simulation of a wide variety of hydraulic and thermal transients in both nuclear and nonnuclear systems involving mixtures of steam, water, noncondensable gases and solutes under single phase and two phase conditions.

Fauske & Associates, LLC (FAI) engineers regularly utilize RELAP5 for thermal hydraulic safety analysis, including pre test Waterhammer Testprediction and post test evaluation, as illustrated.  Major experience includes extensive piping dynamic loads evaluations for AP1000® systems as well as system evaluations on operating nuclear plants in the U.S. and overseas.  

The RELAP5 code has received extensive validation and international participation in the development and testing of the code over the years.  It is available for UNIX and PC platforms, with excellent post-processing software (APTPLOT).  Its versatility enables the analyst to build models of system behaviors. 


Features

  • Fluid flow models
  • Heat transfer characterization
  • Non-condensable gas characterization
  • Core kinetics
  • Control systems
  • Specialized component models
  • Pipe element models
  • Straightforward input from isometric drawings
  • User control of wall friction/irreversible losses
  • Flow regimes dynamically computed and include bubbly/slug/annular/stratified
  • Pump models
  • Homologous curve implementation
  • Pump speed solution based on torque equations
  • Vertical stratified flow models
  • Valve Models
    -  Motor/check/servo models
    -  User controls on closing speed/time
    -  Check valve models are idealized
  • Boundary Conditions (BC) Models
    -  User specified flow and pressure BC
  • Specialized Junction Models
    -  Horizontal stratified vapor pull through models

For more information on RELAP Transient Analysis or Thermal Hydraulic Analysis, please visit www.fauske.com or contact us at info@fauske.com.  

 

Topics: thermal stability, nuclear safety, relap5, thermal hydraulic, nuclear

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