CNC-IAPWS / COG Meeting

17th Floor, CANDU Owner Group Office
480 University Avenue, Toronto
(NW corner at Dundas, St. Patrick Subway)
Toronto, 2009-May-11

Participants List - IAPWS Workshop as Excel Spreadsheet

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Agenda - Click on PDF or PPT links for Adobe and/or PowerPoint Presentations 


Monday - Morning Session


Welcome:
John Froats, President and CEO, CANDU Owners Group (pdf, ppt)


Introduction to IAPWS and the Objective of the Workshop
Peter Tremaine, University of Guelph, Workshop Co-Chair (pdf)


SESSION I: RESEARCH AND RESEARCH NEEDS (Frank Doyle, Director R&D, CANDU Owners Group, Chair)

11:00 Paul Spekkens ppr, Vice-President, Science & Technology Development, Ontario Power Generation Ltd. The Role of University Research in Canada’s Nuclear Power Development (pdf, ppt)

11:20 John Slade/Tracy Gendron, New Brunswick Power Research Input to Chemistry Knowledge Management for 60 year Operation

11:40 Bill Kupferschmidt, Vice-President and General Manager, R & D. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Generation III and IV Reactor Development: Role of R&D (pdf, ppt)

12:00 Peter King/John Jevec, Babcock & Wilcox Water Chemistry in Steam Generators: Opportunities for Investigation (pdf, ppt)

12:20 LUNCH

 


Monday - Afternoon Session


 

SESSION II: RESEARCH TO SUPPORT OPERATING CANDU REACTORS (Ian Hey, Chair)

1:10 Ian Hey, Program Manager, CANDU Owners Group. Issues on High Temperature Chemistry for Operating CANDU Plants (pdf, ppt)

1:30 Derek Lister, University of New Brunswick Flow-Accelerated Corrosion Under Feed-water Conditions (pdf, ppt, alt ppt)

1:50 Craig Stuart, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Radiolysis in Reactor Coolant Systems - Field Application of Laboratory-scale Information. (ppt)

2:10 Ken Sedman, Bruce Power Stress Corrosion Cracking & Intergranular Attack of Steam Generator Tubing (ppt)

2:30 Dr. Otto Herrmann and Teresa Switzer, Kinectrics Advances in Determination of Metals by ICP-MS, from Ultra-small Sampling to Ultra-trace Analysis (ppt)

2:50 COFFEE

SESSION III: CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS IN HIGH TEMPERATURE WATER (Derek Lister, Chair)

3:20 Roger Newman, University of Toronto Aspects of Corrosion in High-temperature Aqueous Systems That Require Fundamental Input on the Properties of the Environment (ppt)

3:40 Peter Tremaine, University of Guelph Deuterium Isotope Effects on Chemical Reactions under CANDU Operating Conditions (pdf)

4:00 Clara Wren, University of Western Ontario Radiolysis in CANDU Coolant and its Effect on Chemistry and Materials (ppt)

4:20 Gabriel Nicolaides, OPG OPG WTP Performance / Trends in High Purity Water Treatment (ppt)

4:40 Dave Guzonas, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chemistry and Materials Challenges in Generation IV Supercritical Water Reactors (ppt)

 


Monday - Evening Event


 

Reception and Dinner 6:30 - 9:30 pm

 


Tuesday - Morning Session


 

SESSION IV: OTHER STEAM-RELATED APPLIED R&D (Peter Tremaine, Chair)

8:40 Mohamed Buarzaiga, Vale Inco Limited High-Pressure Acid Leaching of Nickel Laterite Ores: Chemistry and MOC Challenges (ppt)

9:00 Vladimiros Papengelakis, University of Toronto Pressure Vessel Measurements and Modeling of Metal Solubility in Hydrometallurgical Processes (pptx)

9: 20 Steve Rogak, University of British Columbia A Supercritical Water Flow Apparatus for Material Testing and Electrochemical Measurements 9: 40 Dan Wright, Bedford Institute Scientific and Industrial Formulations for the Properties of Seawater (ppt)

10:00 COFFEE

SESSION V: SUPER-CRITICAL WATER CHEMISTRY (Dave Guzonas, Chair)

10:20 Alan Anderson, St. Francis Xavier University Shining Synchrotron Light on Supercritical Fluids (ppt)

10:40 Janusz Kozinski, University of Saskatchewan SCW: Symbiosis of Materials and Energy Research (ppt)

11:00 Igor Svischev, Trent University Computer Simulations of Supercritical Aqueous Fluids and Particle Formation Processes (ppt)

11:20 Willy Cook, University of New Brunswick Materials and Corrosion Product Behavior under CANDU-SCWR Conditions (ppt)

11:40 Paul Percival, Simon Fraser University Muons as a Tool for Probing Supercritical Water Chemistry (ppt)

12:00 Working Lunch and Discussion to Identify Areas for Future Research, Paul Spekkens, OPG: Discussion Leader

1:30 Adjourn