STEP WP5 - Fusion Power Plant - Diverter Heat Exchanger Design Challenge
key details
| Status | complete |
|---|---|
| Category (CPV) | 09343000 +11 more |
| Region | South East |
| Deadline | 1 Nov 2019 |
| Contract start | 25 Nov 2019 |
| Contract end | 28 Feb 2020 |
| Procedure | open |
| SME suitable | Yes |
| OCID | ocds-b5fd17-7ec31059-e016-46be-a380-8e8f6a5c8e55 |
Awards (4)
This procurement was awarded to 4 suppliers. Values shown are per-award; the notice total is ·.
| Supplier | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd shared | £170,602 | 18 Nov 2019 | active |
| Norton Straw shared | £170,602 | 18 Nov 2019 | active |
| Rolls Royce Power Engineering shared | £170,602 | 18 Nov 2019 | active |
| Wood Nuclear Limited shared | £170,602 | 18 Nov 2019 | active |
description
Manging the heat exhaust from a fusion reactor is one of the most pressing challenges facing those seeking to realise a commercial power plant design.
A fusion reactor heat exhaust is handled via a divertor, which needs to handle large heat fluxes (>10 MWm-2) especially in the divertor target.
For spherical tokamak designs such as STEP, the compact nature of the device potentially increases the heat fluxes on the plasma-facing components, such as the divertor target, and restricts the space for incorporating cooling when compared to conventional larger aspect-ratio tokamaks such as ITER or EU-DEMO.
Parallels can be drawn between the heat management challenges faced in the fusion community and those faced outside the fusion community, particularly in sectors such as motorsport, aerospace, power electronics, and renewable energy where high performance heat exchangers are utilized.
The STEP Work Package 5 (Resilient Nuclear Components) wishes to harness industrial expertise in heat exchanger design outside the fusion community and to identify whether this expertise can be applied to developing an innovative heat exchanger concept design for the STEP divertor target.
documents
- https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=30397&B=UK , tenderNotice
- https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/72814 , tenderNotice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/af2d4ccf-b0ca-46f2-919b-34742fe30506 , tenderNotice
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notice history
2 notices published against this procurement.
| Published | Type | Regime | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2019 | Tender (tender) | · | af2d4ccf-b0ca-46f2-919b-34742fe30506-317787 |
| 22 Nov 2019 | Award (award) | · | 060d2c2a-621f-4af9-9293-be62e74387b0-327959 |
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