scholarly journals Conceptual design for a controlled environment test facility

10.4095/8873 ◽  
1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Controlled Environment

Protocol Analysis: Studying Physical Manipulatives During Conceptual Design

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Hess ◽  
Joshua D. Summers
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Protocol Analysis ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Controlled Environment ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Physical Manipulatives ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Protocol Study ◽  
Study Participants

This paper presents a protocol study that explores how individual designers interact with physical elements during mechanical concept ideation and exploration. This protocol study follows three participants individually in a controlled environment as they develop solutions to a presented problem. The goals of this work were 1) to develop a protocol for documenting human interactions with artifacts and 2) to use this protocol to investigate the use of prototypes during conceptual design. The protocol was used to document the actions of study participants in a manner that allowed searching for patterns of behavior. The most common patterns indicated that participants were learning or finding inspiration from the physical artifact interactions that were then applied to their design solutions. In addition, several opportunities for protocol and experimental methods improvements are presented.

Conceptual design of a fusion engineering test facility based on mirror confinement (FEF)

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 387-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hirayama ◽  
T. Kawabe ◽  
Y. Kohzaki ◽  
H. Sagawa ◽  
K. Yoshikawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Fusion Engineering

Conceptual design of a component test facility based on the spherical tokamak

2008 ◽  
Vol 83 (10-12) ◽  
pp. 1648-1653 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.M. Voss ◽  
S. Davis ◽  
A. Dnestrovskij ◽  
A. Kirk ◽  
P.J. Knight ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Spherical Tokamak ◽  
Component Test

scholarly journals Maintaining a Technology-Neutral Approach to Hydrogen Production Process Development Through Conceptual Design of the Next Generation Nuclear Plant

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Patterson ◽  
Charles V. Park
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Production ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Nuclear Plant ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Process Technology

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with developing and demonstrating the technical and economic feasibility of using high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) technology for the production of electricity and/or hydrogen. The design, construction and demonstration of this technology in an HTGR proto-type reactor are termed the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP) Project. Currently, parallel development of three hydrogen production processes will continue until a single process technology is recommended for final demonstration in the NGNP — a technology neutral approach. This analysis compares the technology neutral approach to acceleration of the hydrogen process downselection at the completion of the NGNP conceptual design to improve integration of the hydrogen process development and NGNP Project schedule. The accelerated schedule activities are based on completing evaluations and achieving technology readiness levels (TRLs) identified in NGNP systems engineering and technology roadmaps. The cost impact of accelerating the schedule and risk reduction strategies was also evaluated. The NGNP Project intends to design and construct a component test facility (CTF) to support testing and demonstration of HTGR technologies, including those for hydrogen production. The demonstrations will support scheduled design and licensing activities, leading to subsequent construction and operation of the NGNP. Demonstrations in the CTF are expected to start about two years earlier than similarly scaled hydrogen demonstrations planned in the technology neutral baseline. The schedule evaluation assumed that hydrogen process testing would be performed in the CTF and synchronized the progression of hydrogen process development with CTF availability.

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