Engineering Analysis And Design
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Engineering Analysis And Design
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K West Basin Water Treatment SystemQ-Metrics provided the thermal
and gas generation safety analysis for the water treatment system installed in
the K West Basin. The analysis demonstrated that the system temperatures
remained below 50°C during normal and
upset conditions and that the hydrogen gas concentration remained below 25% of
the lower The thermal and gas generation
calculations involved working with project personnel to establish the
appropriate reaction rate equations for chemical heat and gas generation, the
bounding reaction areas for the The analysis successfully demonstrated the safety of the proposed system design for handling the water treatment within the K West Basin. |
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and the operational constraints to be applied to the analysis. Since the
filtration units contained a mixture of filtration medium and sludge, the
development of accurate effective thermal properties was critical to the
predictions of heat and gas generation rates. This calculation was further
complicated by the fact that the filtration medium varied in composition from
coarse to fine along the length of the unit. The effective thermal properties
for each layer within the filtration units was computed assuming porous medium
assumptions and the thermal properties for each material contained within that
layer. Normal and upset conditions were evaluated.
