Submarinos Nucleares de Ataque (SNA) - Infrastructure
In May 2004 a special budget of $7.8 million was released for the completion of a land-based nuclear reactor prototype that will be utilized in the SNAC-2 nuclear-powered submarine program. The reactor, identified as RENAP-11, will be built at the Armar Research Center. The reactor was expected to become operational in 2005. The design will be tested for naval service for the first unit of the SNAC-2 program.
The system of control, entirely national, that is being developed for the RENAP-11 corresponds, in international terms, to the state of the art of the technology of controls. One is about a digital, hierarquizado and distributed system, with high degree of modularização and standardization, with possibility of application in other nuclear, industrial and naval installations, that significant advance in relation to the systems of control currently used in nucleus-electric central offices constitutes.
This development has allowed the qualification of the Country in methodology of project and qualification of systems, the hardware and, mainly, software with raised requisite of security, "safe imperfection" and "control of errors". Many of the instruments used in this system have, without a doubt, immediate application in the areas industrial and naval. As in Brazil it did not have tradition of used electric equipment manufacture and the vapor in naval systems of propulsion, the Program had that to contemplate the development, the nationalization and the industrialization of diverse components and equipment of naval job, such as turbine the vapor, electric condensers, bombs, engines and generators.
The Laboratory of Equipment Development of Propulsão (LADEP), only of the sort in the continent, that is being constructed in the Experimental Center Aramar, will allow to the accomplishment of tests and the experimental validation of these equipment and others of the sort, that come to be manufactured by our industry. The engine of electronic commutation excited by imãs of rare lands, that is being developed in set with the Polytechnical School of the USP, by means of the Foundation for the Technological Development of Engenharia (FDTE), for the system of propulsion of one Second generation of submarines, also consists in notable technological innovation in terms of electric machines used in propulsion and traction.
This type of engine, that combines the simplicity of construction of the multiphase engines with the easiness of control of direct-current engine speed, will have, surely, wide application in electric traction of trains and bus, innumerable metal lamination, machines, tools and other industrial uses where changeable speed is required, providing considerable economy of energy. The development of the archetype of the naval platform accumulates of stocks a fan of areas of similar knowledge with the project, construction, maintenance, repairs and operation of ships that, in this in case that, all takes the philosophy and methodology of the associated work to nuclear the technological and industria research to the sector constituted of the industria of naval construction and navi-parts, of considerable economic importance for the Country. The Laboratory of Naval and Oceanic Hydrodynamics, is being constructed in Aramar, and the Laboratory of Structural Mechanics in Rio De Janeiro, will have to give great experimental contribution to these developments.
These developments are the position of the Institute of Research of the Navy (IPqM). The Experimental Center Aramar counts, also, with an advanced Laboratory of Research and Development of Materials; with one equipped workshop of precision mechanics well; with a Laboratory of Analysis of Noises, Shocks and Vibrations; with a Laboratory of Electromagnetic Compatibility; e a Laboratory of Naval and Oceanic Hydrodynamics that will be operated in set with technician and naval engineers of the IPT.
Construction in the Center of Aramar the installations to shelter 50/48 RENAP-50(reator PWR of), that is included a new building to shelter the future reactor. All the program has a supervision technique and epistemológica of the Technological Center of the Navy in São Paulo (CTMSP), which counts on 600 professionals of superior level and about 1000 of level technician. Located in the University of They are Paulo (USP). The necessity of use of materials with not available technology in the Country has demanded of the Program great emphasis in the development of new materials, for what it has invested strong in the formation and qualification technique of human resources in this area.
The planning of a course of Engineering of Materials in Sorocaba and the creation of a School Technique, in the dependences of the Center, for formation of technician of average level in the areas of mechanics of precision and materials, is inserted in this effort and will have to take care of the future necessities of the region. Therefore, this program is much more of that if it has notified, its extension will help Brazil to surpass very of the technological delay in the scientific field.
Brazil is reportedly working on a new uranium refining technique called *magnetic levitation* that is being developed by the Navy at the Aramar lab in Sao Paulo. The news follows a Brazilian announcement from early 2009 that the country is pursuing uranium enrichment on an industrial scale, with a goal to produce 12 tons of enriched uranium for nuclear power supply.
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