Energioptimering : Resteffektkylning av mellanlager för använt kärnbränsle (CLAB) Oskarshamn

Sammanfattning: This thesis is done in cooperation with SWECO Energuide in Växjö. They have been assigned by SKB in Oskarshamn to renew their electrical power supply and the ancillary processing systems in their Central provisional storage of spent nuclear fuel, CLAB. Today in the CLAB facility, the spent fuel is cooled down with water pumps, driven by asynchronous induction motors, where the water is regulated by mechanical valves to the desired flow. After the upgrade, the engines will be powered by AC drives that can control the pumps by changing the rotational speed and thus change the water's cooling effect on the nuclear fuel. In this study, I investigated the interference AC drives causes the feeding network and how to go about averting them. I show what profits there are between the valve- and speed control of the pumps/motors and the reason for this. I then describe the three main systems, which form the core of CLAB's operation, how they work individually and how they interact with eachother. In the end I want to show how much energy you can save on the planned upgrade and it shows the approximated running costs over time. The results are based on calculations made by using Matlab, simulations in FluidFlow and graphs in Excel, which provides an indication of how much costs differ between the valve- and frequency controls of the three systems.