Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

Hdrk Mining Research Limited

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited / Energie Atomique Du Canada Limitee

David Bruce Rhodes

James Edward Mcgregor

James Mitchell King

Michel Gaudet

Victor A Mason

Metin Yetisir

Jintong Li

James Edward Allan McGregor

James Edward Allen MacGregor

Michel J Pettigrew

Eric G Lux

Claire Emmalyn Simister

James Edward Allen Mcgregor

Ziaul Haque

James Edward Allan Mcgregor

William T Diamond

The present invention relates to filters used to remove debris from water being sucked into a piping system. It has particular application use in nuclear power plants, which, after a loss of coolant accident, must pump cooling water back into the reactor core from a collection sump. This water may contain various types of debris that must be removed before the water is sent back into the reactor cooling system. There are restrictions on the allowable pressure drop across the strainer and the space available for installing this equipment. The finned strainer of the present invention addresses these issues while maximizing the quantity of debris filtered from the water.

Finned strainer

With a water, particulate and fibre mixture, a method of quantifying fibre content may include providing a sample of the mixture, filtering the sample to produce a particulate and fibre mixture, burning the particulate and fibre mixture to produce a fibre sample, and dissolving the fibre sample to produce a fibre solution. The fibre solution may be analyzed to determine an elemental content of the fibre solution. The elemental content may be compared to a known elemental content to estimate the fibre content.

Chemical digestion methods of quantification for water and debris mixtures

The present invention relates to filters used to remove debris from water being sucked into a piping system. It has particular application for use in nuclear power plants, which, after a loss of coolant accident, must pump cooling water back into the reactor core from a collection sump. This water may contain various types of debris that must be removed before the water is sent back into the reactor cooling system. Filtering of the debris is realized with the component known as 'strainers'. There are restrictions on the space available for installing strainers. The vaned filtering element, for example a vaned fin, of the present invention is designed to reduce the space required for strainer installation by increasing strainer surface area per unit volume, while maximizing the quantity of debris that can be filtered from the water.

Vaned filtering element

A loose rock detector comprises an impact tool for hitting the rock face, sensors for detecting acoustic, rock motion and/or impact force signals generated by movement of the impact tool against the face of the rock, a data processor responsive to the sensors for correlating the above signals in the time and/or frequency domain against predetermined relationships to detect loose rocks and to assess mass and degree of looseness of the rock, and a display unit for displaying the results of the correlation.

Loose rock detector

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Deep River, Canada

David Bruce Rhodes