Bangor University – Nuclear Futures Research Group

Project: THOR
Location: Bangor, North Wales
Products: Rheonik Coriolis Mass Flow Meters

The Nuclear Futures Bangor Research Group is dynamic team of academics based at Bangor University, who are looking to advance nuclear technologies in the North Wales region. Nuclear energy has played a key role in the area for many decades and the end of the Magnox era has opened up great new opportunities with two local nuclear licensed sites – Wylfa and Trawsfynydd.

The Reactor Design and Thermal Hydraulics (RDTH) group was established in late 2019 and is led by Dr. Marcus Dahlfors. RDTH emphasises Reactor Physics in practical plant operation and core monitoring.

Thermal Hydraulics of Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors reviews flow and heat transfer phenomena in nuclear systems and examines the critical contribution of this analysis to nuclear technology development.

The THOR Project or Thermal-Hydraulics Open-access Research, yields an accessible platform for collaboration partners and other interested parties. In addition to the many academic challenges, Dr Dahlfors and his team are looking to promote the “THOR” product to a number of potential clients, having taken the recent pandemic enforced lockdown as an opportunity to optimise and fine tune the design. As part of that optimisation, the team looked to improve the accuracy of the liquid and steam mass flow measurement in the loop and to that end they came to ABLE Instruments for the supply of a Rheonik Coriolis Flow Meter. The Rheonik meters are based on a unique, patented Omega tube design which offers increased signal to noise ratio, excellent repeatability and high stability for critical applications such as that presented by the THOR Project.

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