1. “TRITIUM PLANT CONSORTIUM OF ASSOCIATES”
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
“TRITIUM PLANT CONSORTIUM OF ASSOCIATES”
- TRIPLA-CA -
ASSOCIATION DAYS,

2. F4E IO Industry Others MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM CONSORTIUM STRUCTURE
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
MEMBERS OF THE CONSORTIUM
Karlsruhe Institue of Technology, KIT;
Commissariate d’Énergie Atomique, CEA
Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente ENEA
Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation/Association EURATOM-MEdC/
National R&D Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopes Technologies - ICIT Rm Valcea
CONSORTIUM STRUCTURE
KIT
CEA
ENEA
ICIT
PARTIES
F4E IO
STEERING COMMITTEE
LEAD PARTY
MANAGEMENT BODY
Industry
Others
COLLABORATION MANAGER
WORK PACKAGE LEADERS
MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING TEAM
PARTIES REPRESENTATIVES

3. CONSORTIUM GENERAL STRATEGIES AREAS OF INTEREST TO THE TriPla-CA
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSORTIUM
The Purpose is to jointly organise and make appropriate proposal (s) to the Client (s) and to contribute, on the basis of Contracts, as widely as possible, to the realisation and the success of the ITER Tritium Plant System and related areas of ITER construction.
CONSORTIUM GENERAL STRATEGIES
To ensure an efficient management of the overall Project,
To avoid duplication of the work by adopting and following a strongly coordinated work
programme
To exploit the specific competences of the Parties.
AREAS OF INTEREST TO THE TriPla-CA
The ITER Tritium Plant systems
The ITER Atmosphere Detritiation Systems
The ITER Hot Cell Facility
Use of test facilities
In support of R&D activities for the design of ITER WDS and ISS, the TriPla-CA shall take benefit of at least the following test facilities:
TRENTA facility from KIT
Pilot Plant for Deuterium and Tritium Separation from MEdC/ICIT Rm. Valcea

4. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
Collaboration Manager
Dr. Ion Cristescu
Preparing, and proposing modifications to the Collaboration Documents;
Reporting to the SC on the progress of the Collaboration;
Bringing to the attention of the Parties the calls and invitations issued by any Client within the Scope of, and the Areas of Interest to the TriPla-CA;
Supervise the implementation of the work for the Contract(s);
Reporting to the Steering Committee on the progress of the Contract(s);
CONSORTIUM LEADERSHIP
STEERING COMMITTEE
Dr. Klaus Hesch
Prof. Dr. Ioan Stefanescu
Dr. Aldo Pizzuto
Dr. Andre Grosman
Dr. Klaus Hesch has been chosen to
act as Chairman of the Steering Committee
SC is responsible for the overall orientation and supervision of the execution of the Collaboration and of the Contracts.
LEAD PARTY
KIT
Lead Party act as coordinator between the Parties and is assisted by:
Management Body;
Management Support Team (MST).
WORK PACKAGE LEADERS
WPL of the ISS Group has been nominated Dr. Robert Michling
WPL of the WDS Group has been nominated Dr.Sebastian Brad
WPL of the Safety & RAMI Analysis Group has been nominated Dr.Tonio Pinna
WPL of the Licensing & Associated Group has been nominated Dr. Karine Liger
MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING TEAM
Leader of the MST has been nominated Dr.Frank Eichelhardt
Project scheduling & control/interfaces/CAD/Quality documentation/Cost estimate/Risk management

5. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
The main duty of the ISS Engineering & Design Group is to characterize the specific
ITER ISS components at ITER relevant scale, to develop the hardware and soft
systems in order to control the tritium inventory and to provide the deuterium and
tritium streams at the required levels.
The group in charge with the development and design of the ITER WDS shall
comply with the ITER new identified throughput and to provide the required
decontamination factor, tacking into account the various isotopic compositions
that can be built, during long term operation.
The group in charge of HAZOP & RAMI Studies, required by the client, must assist
in defining a safe system design and acceptance criteria for equipment that is wetted
by tritium.
The group in charge with Licensing & Associated QA cordinate and monitoring
the Quality Assurance (QA) activity inside the overall Project and the safety and
licensing related activities inside the Project
ASSIGNMENT OF WORK TO THE GROUPS
KIT ISS Engineering & Design
ICIT WDS Engineering & Design
ENEA HAZOP & RAMI Studies
CEA Licensing & associated QA

6. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
Estimated contribution and cost estimation

7. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
CONSORTIUM WORK
Outline Flow Diagram of ITER Fuel Cycle Systems and Interfaces

8. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
ITER WDS-ISS CONFIGURATION
WDS COMPONENTS
Front-end process
Electrolysis unit
Catalytic exchange process
Tritium bearing oxygen
stream process
Membrane permeator
process
Exhaust process
Secondary confinement
subsystems
Process drying subsystems
Tritiated water holding
tank system
Electrical, automation and
control cabinet
Utility
ISS COMPONENTS
Cold-Box (CB) with CD
columns (3 or 4)
Expansion vessels (EV)
Vacuum system (VS)
Valve Box (VB)
Instrumentation Box (IB)
HSC (hard shell
confinement)

9. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
ITER WDS
For ITER, the WDS is one of the key systems to control the tritium content in the effluent streams, to recover as much tritium as possible and consequently to minimize the impact to the environment.
The most suitable process for water detritiation is the CECE process, a combination of electrolysis and catalytic exchange of hydrogen isotopes in a Liquid Phase Catalytic Exchange (LPCE) column.
The separation duty of the CECE process for fusion reactors is very high (tritium concentration in the released H2 from the WDS for ITER shall be < 700 Bqm-3 air at a typical activity of tritium in the water feed of 370 GBqm-3).
ITER ISS
The Isotope Separation System (ISS) envisaged to be used in ITER consists of a cascade of four cryogenic distillation columns with the aim to process a gas stream from the Vacuum Vessel via the Tokamak Exhaust Processing (TEP) system and a second one from the Water Detritiation System mixed with the return stream from the Neutral Beam Injectors. The ISS has to supply five streams with various tritium, deuterium and hydrogen composition. The top product of a CD column from ITER-ISS (CD1 column) has to be almost tritium free to be discharged into the environment, which is one of the main concerns from the licensing point of view.

10. NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
S BRAD, ASSOCIATION DAYS,
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
ASSOCIATION EURATOM – MEdC
NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR CRYOGENICS AND ISOTOPES TECHNOLOGIES
ICIT-TRF
KIT, ICIT and ENEA, in the frame of the Consortium Tri-Pla-CA, jointly prepared and submitted an offer, answering to the ITER call for tender C4T/09/90/PMT - PRI – “Development of method for highly tritiated water handling in ITER Tritium Plant. Phase 1”. ( deadline )
The work to be perform – assessment of the methods for handling of highly tritiated water (HTW) which will be produced in some operational cases at ITER Tritium Plant
The consortium evaluate a possible contribution to the Design Working Order that has been released by ITER aiming on "Tritium accountancy and tracking for inputs to RPrS“.
The purpose of this work is to provide an updated concept of ANS and inputs to RPrS on tritium accountancy and tracking.
The consortium estimated the costs for the ISS, WDS and ANS ITER systems.
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