Fifth Annual QUIKLOOK Users Group Meeting Introduction Testing Valves in Asia

Fifth Annual QUIKLOOK Users Group Meeting

Introduction

Testing Valves in Asia

Stock options are overrated ….

China– 12 Plants under construction– All Westinghouse AP1000 (Advanced

Passive)– 50% less safety related valves– 80% less piping– 85% less cable– Haiyang Site 6 reactors– Sanmen Site 6 reactors– About 16,000 megawatts total

China– Westinghouse did a technology

transfer to the Chinese for AP1000– Signed contract with Westinghouse– Cannot market the AP1000 outside of

China– Scaled up the AP1000 to AP1400– Marketing AP1400 outside of China

Conceptual View AP1000

Taiwan– Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant– GE ABWR (second built, first is in

Japan, biggest nuclear plant in the world)

– 2 units 1350 megawatts each– Fuel load planned for April 2012

(Unit 1) – 9.2 Billion USD (may never start)– 4 years behind schedule

ABWR Reactor

Lungmen/GE valve spec specified stem mounted strain gages on all safety related MOVs– Lungmen plant has 400 safety related

valves– 200 per unit– No valve testing required prior to

shipping valves to Taiwan

Westinghouse spec for valves in China included diagnostic testing prior to shipment– For MOV– For AOV– For BOP

The spec was tailored for stem mounted strain gages– QSS– SMARTSTEM

China / Taiwan– Waited to perform diagnostic testing– Basically waited for US to do the research– Then wanted testing done for ½ price

Taiwan– Does lots of valve and actuator

maintenance– Based on schedule– Maintenance work quality is poor– Use incorrect grease– Don’t do many stem lubes

The first 4 units (2 at each of the China sites) big valves were procured by US valve companies– Flowserve– Velan– Weir

The big contract went to Flowserve– Gates– Globes– MSIV

The remaining new plants in China– Most valve contracts went to in country

companies• Shentong Valve (own Quiklook)• Sufa• Shenjiang Valve (will purchase)

– US companies bid but can’t compete• Valves built in China are low quality• Use cheap actuators• They don’t understand weaklink• Required thrust determination is not standard

Roger and I hosted a seminar in China last year and invited:– Flowserve– Automatic Valve– Top Works– Curtis Wright (EGS connectors)

Teledyne has signed up a China Distributor– Chance Development (H.K.) Limited – They are pushing Quiklook/QSS in

China– Company President is former Nuclear

employee

Velan– Had Quiklook for a number of years

Flowserve– Bought Quiklook in 2009

Weir– Bought Quiklook in 2010

Taiwan Power– Using Quiklook since 1994

China Valves (AP1000)– All valve tested static and “DP”

before shipping– 20 to 30 strokes required per valve– Reduced and nominal voltage– Actuator sizes are very conservative– All SR MOVs are DC– BOP all AC

SMB-3-150 on an 8” gate valve (Flowserve)

36” MSIV Gate Valve

Taiwan Power Company– Teledyne awarded contract for AOV

Program (Turn – Key)• Design Basis Calculations• Weaklink Analysis• Static Testing• Dynamic Testing

Used ACE 3.0Used ACETestUsed Quiklook

AOV Scope– 68 valves– 68 static tests– 6 dynamic tests

TPC I/C Staff– Very limited valve experience– Do not understand testing– They kept asking me about torque

switch settings??

TPC is slowly adopting how we do business

Just began using safety glasses/shoesUse pre-job briefs

– Called TBM– Tool Box Meeting

The TBM ….

First time TTS used Windows 7 for the Quiklook operating system

XP software difficult to obtainFuture system will use Windows 7Discovered weakness with I/P circuitNew board is in Engineering

Valve population included– 9 Fisher actuators– 25 Automax for quarter turn valves– 34 Valtek

Valves were very high marginMost valves have no regulatorsFull air pressure

– Actuator nameplate indicated 100 psi max– Measured 120 psi

Valve Pics - Automax

Valtek (on-off)

Fisher – 3-Way Control Valve

MSIV in DW

Testing with QLII

Intake Structure

Questions?