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NuclearPlantJournal.com Nuclear Plant Journal, September-October 2016
New
Documents
EPRI
1.
Nuclear Maintenance Applications
Center: Purge Valve Maintenance Guide
.
Product ID: 3002007711. Published
August, 2016.
The nuclear industry continues to
experience purge valve failures resulting
in impact to plant outage schedules and
considerable time and effort to make
repairs. Stations have also performed
design changes to make the purge valve
inoperable (installing blanks or stops)
due to an inability to perform a timely
repair. A focus on proper maintenance
and repair can reduce the impact of
these events. The information in this
report represents a collection of industry
processes and practices being used in the
maintenance, repair, and replacement of
the most common purge valves used in
the nuclear industry. The Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI) has undertaken
this effort with the intent of addressing
and improving the understanding of
purge valve issues.
The major objective of this report
is to provide technical guidance for
maintenance and support personnel to
help correctly determine the condition
of their purge valves, as well as
recommendations for good maintenance
practices.
2.
Nuclear Maintenance Applications
Center: Pump Specialist Guide
. Product
ID: 3002007700. Published August,
2016.
This report presents a tiered approach
to developing the necessary skills and
knowledge required to become a pump
specialist. It includes recommended skill
sets, industry involvement opportunities,
training options, mentoring insights, and
references to pump-related technical and
training material. This report contains
nuclear-specific information; however,
any organization can use it by excluding
information that is not applicable to a
non-nuclear industry.
3.
Nuclear Maintenance Applications
Center: Valve Specialist Guide
. Product
ID: 3002007696. Published September,
2016.
The individuals responsible for valves
in the nuclear power industry are known
by various titles—valve specialist, valve
component engineer, valve manager, and
valve engineer, to name a few. Although
valve duties and responsibilities are often
spread across several departments, such
as maintenance, operations, engineering,
and procurement, it is up to the valve
specialist to ensure that valve health and
reliability are maintained.
4.
Maintenance Strategy Reference Guide
Overview
. Product ID: 3002009068.
Published September, 2016.
ThisMaintenance StrategyReference
Guide incorporates portions of the
Preventive Maintenance Basis Database,
Reliability
Centered
Maintenance,
Condition Based Maintenance, As-found
Reporting and Equipment Reliability
process documents. This document
links these processes together resulting
in continuously improving maintenance
organizations that strategically respond to
operational and equipment conditions by
adjusting to the needs of the components
and systems. This report provides greater
clarity related to the fundamentals used in
the evaluation steps for the development
of a consistent maintenance strategy.
The term maintenance in this guide
refers to all the aspects of maintaining
the physical plant. Maintenance includes
engineering
(system,
component,
program, design, rapid response),
maintenance,
procurement,
work
management, operations, and all who
contribute to keeping the systems,
structures and components operational.
5.
External Hazards: Information
Compilation and Analysis - Catalog of
Relevant Information Sources
. Product
ID: 3002008097. Published September,
2016.
This
report
summarizes
the
development and contents of a catalog
of relevant, credible information sources
related to external hazards that are
important to nuclear power plants in the
United States. The catalog sources are
used to support identification of new
information about external hazards. This
process supports U.S. nuclear utilities
in addressing Recommendation 2 of the
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
(INPO) Event Report Level 1-13-10,
“Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,” which
calls for the evaluation of credible
new information that challenges
the conservatism of current design
assumptions for external events.
6.
Program on Technology Innovation:
State of the Art of Wearable Enterprise
Augmented Reality Displays
. Product
ID: 3002009258. Published September,
2016.
In order for workers to perform
tasks using both of their hands while
receiving the content of augmented
reality (AR) experiences, they will need
hardware that has heretofore not been
generally available outside of testing and
research labs. New, wearable products
such as “smart” glasses, helmets, and
headgear—specifically
designed
to
provide enterprise AR experiences—can
now be purchased for evaluation in the
workplace. Unfortunately, suppliers and
customers are delayed in their ability to
agree on final product features due to lack
of understanding of requirements and
unclear benefits and tradeoffs associated
with the various options.
Increased awareness of features and
options—and adoption of conventions
through which to convey them—will
permit developers of wearable AR
displays to communicate specifications
clearly. This report describes the current
state of the art of wearable AR display
devices and informs customers about
key options and enabling components by
which suppliers are able to differentiate
their offerings.
Customers will gain understanding
about wearable AR display challenges
that need to be resolved, learn how
the devices are already being used in
enterprise settings, and discover trends
that will impact the product segment.
The above EPRI documents may be
ordered by contacting the Order Center
at (800) 313-3774, Option 2, or email at
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