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Description / Abstract:
This Standard covers requirements for the design, construction, and
qualification and acceptance
testing of the air-cleaning units and components which make up
Engineered Safety Feature (ESF) and
other high efficiency air and gas treatment systems used in nuclear
power plants.
Limitations
The Standard does not cover sizing of a complete nuclear air treatment
system, redundancy, or
single-failure requirements. It applies only to systems which employ
particulate filtration,
ambient-temperature adsorption, or both, as the principal functional
mechanism. It does not apply
to condenser off-gas systems. Also, it does not apply to other
applications that employ primarily
gas storage or holdup, cryogenic adsorption or fractionation, or
solvent absorption as the
principal method of gas treatment. Nor does the Standard cover
requirements for containment
isolation valves, recombiners, comfort heating, air-conditioning, or
ventilation to achieve
ordinary cooling or industrial hygiene objectives. Field acceptance
testing of nuclear
air-treatment systems is covered in ACME AG-1, Section TA (the primary
reference was to ACME
N510-1989).
Purpose
The Standard identifies and establishes requirements for filters,
adsorbers, moisture separators,
air heaters, filter housings, dampers, valves, fans, ducts, and other
components of nuclear
air-treatment systems for a specific application in a nuclear power
plant. The Standard also
establishes requirements for operability, maintainability, and
testability of systems necessary for
the maintenance of system reliability for the design conditions.
Qualification and acceptance
testing provisions are specified to verify the adequacy of the
air-cleaning unit and component
design, to verify that components have been properly fabricated and
installed, and that the system
will perform in accordance with specification requirements.