Scheduling, pilot testing

Launch. We initiated the pilot on schedule on May 15 with a series of group orientation meetings with all three shifts at Marwood. Members of the Task Force, plus the facility manager, conducted these meetings, where we explained the PSM system, discussed the pilot test, and outlined expectations of Manwood personnel. 

Once you have determined where to start, you can begin to develop a schedule. However, it s prudent to wait until the pilot test is complete before firmly establishing your timetable, since the results may well affect your estimates. In setting the installation schedule, be sure to take into account variables such as ... 

As part of planning your company s PSM system roll-out (Chapter 7), you have established a number of benchmarks and parameters for the installation process. For example, pilot testing should yield realistic estimates for individual facilities schedule, staffing, and other resource requirements, as well as workable formats for reporting. The installation plan you developed should derive from these results, adapting them to the full range of your company s operations. 

Japan 2 and 30 kWe PEFC pilot plants have been promoted in Japan as a part of New Sunshine Program. The 2 kWe plant is for residential use and will be developed by Sanyo Electric. The plant is scheduled for testing in 2000. 

Recommendation 4-1. The Army should evaluate off-site management of hydrolysates both for potential cost and schedule benefits and as a contingency plan in case difficulties arise during start-up and pilot testing of the on-site (postneutralization) process steps. 

Using a liner, or an entire reactor, in a sacrificial capacity may become a viable alternative, but this decision must be based on an understanding of reactor lifetime and the development of maintenance, monitoring, and change-out/ replacement procedures and schedules. Considerable testing, including pilot-scale tests, will be necessary to address these issues. 

Implementation of binary precursor neutralization does not appear in current NSCWM disposal budgets. A pilot test program for neutralization of DF and QL was scheduled to begin in late September 2001 (see Table 2-4) but has not started due to restrictions on the movement of these two... 

By now your PSM system has been developed, tested, and fine-tuned, and you have planned and scheduled its installation. Once more, it s time to sell. This time around, selling PSM should be easier— you have a tangible "product," with specific benefits. You tdso—Abased on the test pilot—should have some satisfied customers. 

The EDS II test program includes testing and design studies needed for a preliminary design of a full-scale pilot plant, a preliminary hazard analysis, development of a full-scale cost estimate, and a schedule for construction and operation of a facility employing the AEA technology. 

Molecules containing O, S, P, N, F, Cl, Br, and I are chemically unstable and should be suspicious. If any of the components of a process are rated hazardous, the process may be substituted for one which uses no such components, or experimental tests for the safe design of the pilot plant and the commercial process must be scheduled. 

Here, we will report on five different designs for catalytic combustors. The principal schedule is shown in Figure 5 and a summary of results from recent pilot-scale combustion tests is given in Table 5, which concludes some of the information discussed here. Concepts for stationary and mobile applications, as well as for gaseous and liquid fuels, will be discussed. Special attention to the recently finished AGATA-program will be given. 

Materials evaluation in pilot plants covers all phases of the coal gasification process. Test specimens are installed in the coal pretreatment, gasification, gas quench systems, and methanation equipment in the plants. Three exposures, nominally 1, 3, and 6 months, at plant operating conditions are scheduled for each test location. Post-exposure corrosion evaluation employed in Phase II are the same as those used in other phases of the IITRI program, i.e., metallography combined with gravimetric analysis. 

A new stabilizer fin, originally designed for aerial stability, saved the mission. Tested during September, it consistently held the torpedo to less than forty feet and steadied it as well But the pilots still needed aiming practice. Only thirty of the modified weapons could be promised by October 15, another fifty by the end of the month and the last hundred on November 30, after the task force was scheduled to sail. 

Pilot plant and service tests may be more vulnerable to unforeseen difficulties as a consequence of constraints and demands from external technical and nontechnical sources. Laboratory tests avoid some of these difficulties because there is usually more flexibility in the allocation of supplies and equipment and in the scheduling of personnel. Certain common sense practices can improve laboratory, pilot plant, and service tests. Use good quality water for the preparation of aqueous solutions (systems are available at reasonable cost that routinely supply Type 1 water) (see ASTM D 1193, Specification for Reagent Water, part 9). Provide regulated and filter power for operating critical electroitic instruments and computers. Establish a well-defined ground system for test equipment. 

With the exception of fabrication and qualification of low enriched fuel for the commercial GT-MHR, the technology development and demonstration would be conducted in conjunction with the development and deployment of the plutonium consumption version. Construction of a fuel fabrication pilot plant, and fabrication and irradiation of proof test fuel is estimated to take eight years and could be conducted in parallel with the plant schedule. 

The ongoing R D program includes experimental verification of components performance (eg, the main coolant pipe), fuel testing, transient and safety analyses, manufacturability studies, and cost optimization. The constmction of a pilot fuel plant for the BREST-OD-300 has started in April 2014 at Siberian Chemical Combine in Tomsk. The plant is scheduled to begin operating in 2017, in time to produce the first fuel load by 2020. A reprocessing facility at the same site is expected to come online in 2022. 

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