Technology Transfer Department

Application sectors

Problem to solve

The design service aims at answering to the need of designing systems and components operating in extremely complex conditions, taking into account, at the same time, different phenomenologies (high temperature, neutron radiation, pressure, containment of radioactive material, etc.). The subjects mainly interested in this service are the consortia/research bodies operating in the same sector (e.g. ITER, EUROfusion, F4E) and the companies operating in the nuclear field.

Description

The design service of the NUC-ING division deals with the thermo-hydraulic and thermo-mechanical design of systems and components for energy production, with a particular focus on nuclear fission and fusion plants. The service also deals with the design of prototypes and experimental plants operating in this sector. As regards thermo-hydraulic design, the NUC-ING division deals with the study of single-phase and two-phase phenomena taking place in components operating in a nuclear environment, through the adoption of numerical codes. The thermo-mechanical design activity mainly consists in the study of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of systems and components operating in a nuclear environment and in the verification of the conditions imposed by the design codes (e.g. ASME, RCC-MRx, etc.). As the design of prototypes and experimental plants is concerned, it consists in the conceptualization, modelling and analysis of an experimental component/plant from scratch, including the design of test sections and the planned experimental campaigns. In particular, these are components and systems operating in the field of nuclear fusion and fission (water and/or liquid metal cooling, tritium technologies, liquid metal technologies, etc.), with the aim of validating technologies and designs assessed by means of analytical and numerical tools.

Research group involved