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Engineering and Design

Mesit and CCRI Research and Technological Engineering Services

 

Mesit and CCRI research and technological development and advanced engineering services, typically operates in cooperation agreement with leader companies, with the aim at tackling national and international markets also with the development of innovative products. Mesit and his engineering partner CCRI perform traditional and advanced engineering specialties and detailed design for various projects for their worldwide Clients including traditional disciplines, architectural, civil, electrical, mechanical, piping, and structural engineering including simulation, integrated automation processes, and interactive 3D and 4D modeling.

 

CCRI main field of activities are:

Nuclear Power Plants as decommissioning, power plant design and innovative development;

Process, Steel working, Power Plants, Chemical process plants and Renewable energy plants;

Advanced Mechanical componets and system as remote handling, automotive, aerospace, etc.

 

The CCRI stable manpower includes 110 highly skilled technicians, mainly PhDs and engineers.The basic engineering production capacity, based on the permanent personnel, is around 150.000 h/y. The turnover of the Companies of the Consortium is 15 MEU/y. In addition to the internal resources, CCRI has the availability of external staff, with specific competence in different fields, thanks to a proven network of cooperation with specialized companies, supported by specific cooperation agreement. CCRI technical structure is set in five technical areas: civil, mechanical, elecrtical, automation and nuclear. 

 

R&D activities are carried out both at technical area level and at a level crosscutting different technical areas, as well as under the coordination of dedicated professionals.

In the following, for each technical areas it is reported a description of the technical capabilities of the company, the internal staff, the standards and rules applied and the computer programs utilized.

 

 

MECHANICAL

The staff in that area consists in 40 persons/year, corresponding to a productive capacity of about 65.000 hours/year. Of particular interest the research and development efforts (with the realization and testing of prototypes) for the development of innovative components and systems in the areas of robotics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics (innovative HX, valves, etc. ) are pointed out.

 

We can provide process definition, concept analysis and feasibility studies, design of complex mechanical systems, as nuclear systems (primary circuit components, reactor auxiliary systems, nuclear and non nuclear), heating ventilation and air conditioning systems, liquid/solid/gaseous waste treatment facilities, fire-control systems, and mechanical systems in general as per international industrial standards and nuclear safety rules ( ASME, ANSI, APIE, IEEE, IAEA, EUR, DIN, UNI EN, ASME AG-1, ISO, NUREG, ANS, ETC.)

structural analyses as per national regulation (UNI, PED)

structural analyses as per US and international nuclear standards (ASME III, ANSI, ASME AG-1, NUREG, ANS)

non-linear structural analyses

preparation of technical specifications, engineering analyses reports, project development time schedules and cost estimates

 

Software and calculation codes available are:

AVEVA Diagrams

AVEVA P&ID

AVEVA VPE Workbench

AVEVA PDMS (Piping, Equipment and HVAC and Ducting Functions)

PIPE STRESS

GT STRUDL

DUAL P

CPI WIN

LS DYNA

MSC NASTRAN

ABACUS (Implict and Esplicit)

RADIOSS

ANSYS

PATRAN

SOLIDWORKS

CATIA

AUTOCAD

The CCRI staff is also trained in:

the use of Intergraph PDS application for 3D mechanical design

the use of Intergraph CAESAR II software for pipe stress analysis

 

 

CIVIL

The staff in the area consists of 25 units with a production capacity corresponding at about 40.000 hours/year

Software and computer programs available. The capabilities include:

architectural design

reinforced concrete structural design

steel structure design

structural analyses as per Italian rules and regulations

structural analyses as per US regulation (ACI) and nuclear standards

non linear structural analyses, static and dynamic (time histories)

preparation of technical specifications, engineering calculation reports, project development time schedules and cost estimates.

 

Software and calculation codes available are:

SAP 2000

STRAUSS

NOLIAN

MSC NASTRAN 2500 (LS DYNA)

HKS ABAQUS (IMPLICIT ED ESPLICIT)

GD STRUDEL

ANSYS

AVEVA PDMS (STRUCTURAL & ARCHIT. FUNCTIONS)

AVEVA NUCLEAR CONCRETE DESIGN

Software 3D

AVEVA PDMS (STRUCTURAL & ARCHIT. FUNCTIONS)

AVEVA NUCLEAR CONCRETE DESIGN

ALLPLAN

 

 

ELECTRICAL

The staff in the area consists in 15 persons/year, corresponding to a production capacity of around 25,000 hours/year. In the frame of this technical area the capabilities of CCRI include:

 

electric power systems architecture design

electrical transformers design

design of MV/HV panels, power control centres, motor control centres and power distribution centres

primary distribution and secondary distribution network design and electrical cable integrity verification

auxiliary electric system design and process integration

preparation of technical specifications, engineering calculation reports, project development time schedules and cost estimates.

 

Software and computer programs available:

Ampere

AVEVA Cable Design

NEPLAN

 

 

AUTOMATION

The staff in the area consists in 7 persons/year, corresponding to about 12.000 hours/year. The capabilities of the company includes:

process control design and control system architecture definition

design of distributed control systems (DCS) and peer to peer systems

relay control systems design

identification of control systems instrumentation: sensors and actuators

signal distribution network design

cables integrity and cable anchors stability verification, definition of component qualification process

preparation of single line diagrams, connection diagrams, installation schemes

preparation of technical specifications and cost estimates.

 

 

NUCLEAR

The analyses are carried out as per national and international standards and rules, namely ANS; ANSI; ASME, IEEE, DOE, NUREG, SMACNA, as well as per international standards ISO, IAEA, ICRP, CEI IERC and national standards UNI and UNI EN. The staff in the area consists in 7 persons/year, corresponding to about 12.000 hours/year. The technical capabilities of the company in the area deal with all the aspects of nuclear safety and radiological protection for nuclear installations, in particular:

Nuclear installation safety analyses, including

Identification and selection of initiating events

Probabilistic, deterministic and hybrid safety assessments

Calculation of doses and radiological impact on workers and local population

Classification of structures, components and systems

Criticality and burn-up calculations; fuel loading strategies

Reliability analysis of reactivity control systems, power distribution calculation in sub-critical and critical systems, reactivity coefficients calculation

Radiation shielding design

Evaluation of radiation doses to exposed individuals and population

Evaluation of integral radiation dose to materials

Fluid-dynamic and thermal-hydraulic calculations, in transient and steady state conditions, in support to core and system design, in operational and accident scenarios.

 

Software and computer programs available:

MCNP

Frames

Microshield

Microshine

Raddecay

Scale

NEWT

TRITON

RELAP

FLUENT.

 

PROJECTS - Engineering and Design