Automatic maintenance with robotics of the induction melting plant in a cold crucible

Igor Yu. Dalyaev
PhD in Technical Sciences, Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Chief Designer for Extreme Robotics and Automation, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(911)229-73-01, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID: 0000-0003-0494-065X, ResearcherID: E-1650-2014

Alexander A. Truts
RTC, Deputy Chief Designer for Robotics and Robotics Industry, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID: 0000-0003-0077-5722

Andrey A. Shavlikov
RTC, Head of the Design Bureau, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Alexander A. Zherebtcov
PhD in Technical Sciences, JSC Proryv, Deputy Director - Director of the Department of Radiochemistry, 2/8-7, ul. Malaya Krasnoselskaya, Moscow, 107140, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID: 0000-0002-8203-5973

Yuriy S. Mochalov
PhD in Technical Sciences, JSC Proryv, Chief Technologist of the Project Direction «Proryv», 2/8-7, ul. Malaya Krasnoselskaya, Moscow, 107140, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID: 0000-0001-6236-9557

Andrey Yu. Shadrin
Doctor of Chemical Science, Private Institution «Science and innovation», Deputy Director – Director of the Department of Radiochemistry, 24, ul. Bolshaya Ordynka, Moscow, 119017, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., ORCID: 0000-0002-4042-0443

Received October 1, 2021

Abstract
The performance of works within the framework of technological operations of the closed nuclear fuel cycle of an industrial power complex is inevitably associated with the effects of an external factors that have a significant impact on the technological process. Thus, human participation should be minimized, mechanical and electromechanical systems should be included in the process, in particular, means of robotics. When creating a deserted technology, the issue of automation of the process comes to the fore, including with the use of robotic systems that solve transport, service, inspection tasks, including tasks directly related to the technological process. Special requirements are also imposed on the materials used. The processing of the vitrification of high-level waste is being considered in this work. Such a glazing site by the IMCC method was created by specialists of JSC «VNIINM». In this work, the analysis of the current technical process of the work of this site is carried out, proposals for optimizing the performance of individual operations are issued, recommendations for retrofitting the site are given. Based on the test results of the demonstration stand, proposals were formulated for the automation of the glazing section, taking into account the environmental factors that take place on a real installation, and taking into account the results obtained as a result of the mock-up tests.

Key words
Robotics, nuclear fuel cycle, radioactive waste, automation, vitrification of HLW.

DOI
10.31776/RTCJ.10308

Bibliographic description
Dalyaev, I.Yu. et al., 2022. Automatic maintenance with robotics of the induction melting plant in a cold crucible. Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, 10(3), pp.228-235.

UDC identifier:
007.52:621.039-78:658.52.011.56

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