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Process Equipment
Numet designs and manufactures custom process systems and components to meet a wide range of requirements for the nuclear industry. Numet has both the ASME certifications for the pressure integrity of the equipment, and the engineering know-how for the process design of many commonly required components.
Numet's supply capabilities range from individual components to fully automated process systems. Numet's component and system designs contain many special features to meet the unique needs of nuclear applications.
Some Typical Components
Drain traps
Flame arrestors
Flow elements
Heat exchangers
Ion exchange vessels
Leakage indicators
Orifice plates and cascade orifices
Pressure reducing coils
Shielded and unshielded filter vessels
Tritium storage vessels
Uranium getter beds
Y-strainers
For a more detailed list of Process Equipment click here
Process System Features
The design of nuclear process systems utilizes a wide range of Numet's expertise, such as pressure vessel engineering, piping design, sizing of components such pumps and valves, structural and seismic analysis, electrical design, instrumentation and programming, as well as the nuclear physics calculations for radiological shielding requirements. Numet can develop a fully operating system from basic functional requirements, or join in at any stage of the client's design process.
Related Services:
Hydrostatic, pneumatic and proof testing, plus a full range of NDE processes
SMAW, MAW, GTAW, SAW, brazing and plasma arc cutting
Special alloys and dissimilar metals
Small diameter tube welding
Typical Processes:
Pressure regulation and flow monitoring
Decontamination systems
Purification systems
Leakage detection systems
D20 sampling equipment
To view some examples of Process Equipment use the menu to the left or select from the list below.
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Solid/Liquid Separation System
This Solid/Liquid Separation System was custom designed by Numet for use by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It is a cross-flow filtration system that processes a radioactive supernatant feed from underground storage tanks. More...
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Decontamination System for Research Reactor Facility
Using an AECL patented decontamination process, Numet designed and supplied this custom system to reduce radiation emissions from the process piping in the NRU reactor at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories facility. More...
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Process Components
Numet is well known in the nuclear industry for providing a wide variety of custom engineered process components. Shown here are some examples of specific product types that Numet has provided extensively for Nuclear generating stations. More...
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Fuelling Machine D2O Valve Stations
On-line fuelling machines in CANDU reactors are hydraulically powered, and have complex "Valve Stations" to control flow and pressure of D2O (heavy water) to their Fuelling Machine's D2O operated actuators. Numet has provided these multi section and multi class ASME code nuclear process systems to numerous CANDU stations. More...
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Fan Coolers
This vane axial type fan was custom designed by Numet to remove heat from high level waste storage canisters at a US DOE facility. The challenges of the design included a heavy heat load demand, a large airflow resistance, and very tight packaging requirements, as well as seismic qualification and stringent QA requirements. More...
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Heat Exchangers
Numet provides a unique design of spiral type heat exchangers. These units are very compact and can be provided as a bolted or all welded construction. This Numet custom product has been supplied to numerous nuclear generating stations, and also to the DOE as part of a process that vitrifies high level radioactive waste. More...
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Tritium Vessels
Numet specializes in the design and supply of Tritium Storage and Handling Vessels. Shown here is an Immobilized Tritium Container that contains a titanium sponge type product for tritium storage in the form of titanium tritide. Numet has in-house SNT-TC 1a qualified personnel and equipment to meet the stringent helium leak testing requirements of this type of product. More...
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Ion Exchange Columns
This ION Exchange Column is an example of the effectiveness of applying Numet's nuclear process expertise to Military applications. Numet has provided 100's of these portable style ion exchange columns as part of the ground support equipment requirements for US military aircraft. More...
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