Robotic System for Automated Handling of Ceramic Pucks
Robotic System for Automated Handling of Ceramic Pucks
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用于自动处理陶瓷圆盘的机器人系统
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2000
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K. D. Peterson
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K. D. Peterson
劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室 (LLNL) 正在开发一种用于固定和最终处置遗留核材料的工艺。 LLNL 正在建设陶瓷化系统测试设施 (CSTF)，而实际的钚固定厂 (PIP) 将建在萨凡纳河基地 (SRS)。这些材料通过所谓的第一阶段固定（FSI）工艺形成陶瓷基圆盘。 FSI 圆盘处理系统将通过几个工艺步骤自动输送圆盘，首先从成型机中取出“绿色”圆盘，将圆盘装载到烧结炉中或从烧结炉中卸载，最后将烧结圆盘装载到运输罐中以便从 CSTF 手套箱中取出。它将消除操作员在手套箱内操作机械时产生的多种潜在危险，减少操作员接触辐射的机会，减少搬运过程中损坏圆盘的机会，并提高系统的吞吐量。辅助设备也在开发中，并与圆盘处理系统集成，以确定生圆和烧结圆盘的质量和几何特性。尽管 CSTF 旨在演示工厂系统原型设备，但设想的工厂和 LLNL CSTF 之间在各自的冰球处理系统方面存在显着差异。 LLNL 和 SRS 都认识到这种差异，尽管 CSTF 圆盘处理系统的整体形式不会是工厂原型，但它将有助于解决几个与工厂相关的圆盘处理问题。因此，CSTF 冰盘处理系统将为 LLNL 的 CSTF 本身的运营提供短期效益，并支持为 SRS 设施展示工厂原型设备的总体项目目标。
A process is being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for immobilization and ultimate disposal of legacy nuclear materials. A Ceramification System Test Facility (CSTF) is being built at LLNL, while the actual Plutonium Immobilization Plant (PIP) will be built at Savannah River Site (SRS). The materials are formed into ceramic-based pucks in what is called the First Stage Immobilization (FSI) process. The FSI puck handling system will provide automatic conveyance of pucks through several process steps beginning with removing the 'green' pucks from the forming press, loading and unloading the pucks into/from a sintering furnace, and ending with loading the sintered pucks into transport cans for removal from the CSTF glovebox. It will eliminate several potential operator hazards arising from operating machinery within the glovebox, reduce operator exposure to radiation, reduce the chance of damaging pucks during handling and increase the throughput of the system. Ancillary equipment is also being developed and integrated with the puck handling system to determine the mass and geometric properties of both the green and sintered pucks. Although the CSTF is intended to demonstrate equipment that is prototypical of plant systems, significant differences exist between the envisioned plant and the LLNL CSTF with respect to their respective puck handling systems. LLNL and SRS both recognize this disparity, and although the CSTF puck handling system will not be plant prototypic in overall form, it will, however, be useful in addressing several plant-relevant puck-handling issues. Thus, the CSTF puck handling system will provide both short-term benefits for operation of the CSTF itself at LLNL, and support an overall project goal of demonstrating plant prototypic equipment for the SRS facility.