Fluid Power Institute

Electric Power Research Institute, Evaluation of Fire-Ketardant Fluids for Turbine BearingEubricants, report NP-6542, Palo Alto, Calif., 1989. 

Nearly 160,000 miles of high-voltage electrical transmission lines in the United States carry power from power stations to load centers (Edison Electric Institute, 2002). In addition, distribution lines carry the power from substations to end users. The electrical power system is fundamentally different from the liquid or gaseous fuel supply systems, which involve fluid flows that are relatively easy to direct and control. Electric power flow, which is dictated by complex physics principles, can often be difficult to control. 

Hermia J., Constant pressure blocking filtration laws Application to power-law non-newtonian fluids. Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers 60(3) 1982 183-187. 

Tampella Corporation is commercializing the U-GAS process, which was developed by the Institute of Gas Technology. Tampella has constructed a 10-MW, integrated U-GAS-combined cycle power plant in Finland that uses coal, peat, and wood wastes as feedstocks. U-GAS incorporates a single-stage, fluid-bed gasifier in which coal reacts with steam and air at 950 to 1090°C at pressures... 

For over ten years Combustion Power Company has been conducting experimental programs and developing fluid bed systems for agencies of the Federal Government and for private industry and institutions. Many of these activities have involved systems for the combustion of solid waste materials. Discussed here will be three categories of programs, development of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) fired fluid beds, development of wood waste fired fluid beds, and industrial installations. 

Forrester, Jay Wright (b. 1918) An engineer, teacher, and computer scientist bom in Nebraska, Forrester built a wind-powered electrical system while in his teens. Associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a researcher and professor for many years, he developed servomechanisms for nuhtary use, designed aircraft flight simulators, and air defense systems. He founded the field of system dynamics to produce computergenerated mathematical models for such tasks as determining water flow, fluid turbulence, and a variety of mechanical movements. 

CSA, Computer Simulation Analysis, Inc., 1998. RETRAN-3D-A Program for Transient Thermal-Hydrauhc Analysis of Complex Fluid Flow Systems Volume 1, Theory and Numeric. Electric Power Research Institute Report, NP-7405, Volume 1, Revision 3. 

A modular-type reactor with coolant at supercritical fluid conditions (see Fig. A5.11) was developed at Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (RDIPE, Moscow, Russia) as an improvement to the existing RBMK (Russian acronym for Pressure Channel Reactor of High Power). 

HeXe was the assumed coolant and working fluid for initial engineering work on the Project Prometheus Space Nuclear Power Plant (SNPP). The recommended method to calculate the viscosity and thermal conductivity of pure hehum and pure xenon is to use equations provided by the Design Institute for Physical Property Data (DIPPR) (Daubert et al., 1992). These equations are produced from curve fits of empirical data. The recommended method to calculate the viscosity and thermal conductivity of HeXe mixtures is the theoretical approach described by Hirschfelder (Hirschfelder, Curtiss, and Bird, 1954) with the addition of two higher order thermal conductivity correction factors described by Kestin (Kestin et al., 1984) and Singh (Singh, Dham, and Gupta, 1992). 

The NOKO test facility located at the Institute for Safety Research and Reactor Technology of the Research Center Julich is a thermal hydraulic test rig, which was constructed within the framework of a research task in a joint project of the Research Center Julich (FZJ) and SIEMENS AG, Power Generation Division (KWU), with support from the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology and German utilities. The facility is suited for a broad spectrum of experiments in the field of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics of water, water vapor and non-condensable gases. Different passive safety systems can be investigated with only minor modifications. 

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