About the Course

This course provides both theoretical and practical analysis of key thermal-hydraulic and thermodynamic principles as applied to CANDU nuclear power plants. Students will examine nuclear and conventional steam cycles, including regenerative feedwater heating, moisture separation and reheating, turbine expansion behaviour, heat balance diagrams, cycle efficiency, and exergy analysis. The course explores nuclear heat removal processes such as conduction and convection in fuel rods and heat-exchanger tubes, heat transfer in boilers and condensers, boiler effects on the heat transport system, swelling and shrinking phenomena, level control, and condenser performance. Students will also study steam turbine operation, including turbine configurations, impulse and reaction blading, velocity diagrams, sealing systems, moisture impacts, part-load performance, back-pressure effects, thermal influences, and turbine governing.

In this course you will be learning from Dr. Robin Chaplin