CSI Technologies offers technical consulting and software development services to operators of electrical generating stations and other process plants.  We are a multi-specialty firm, combining expertise in mechanical system degradation, engineering analysis, and information engineering to assist our clients in effectively managing their physical assets.

FAC Services

• CSI is the leading firm  in FAC consulting.  We are EPRI CHUG members and provide over 15,000 hours of FAC consulting annually.

• CHECK-CHEC, the advanced input data checker for CHECWORKS 1.0G and SFA 2.x.

Operating Experience:  Flow-Accelerated Corrosion (FAC)

• LaCygne (fossil station):  Information about the May 2008 inspections that detected severe wear in a line similar to the failed line at Iatan. 

• Fort Calhoun:  Information about the October 2006  Fort Calhoun Extraction Steam Piping Holes (inside condenser). 

• Mihama:  Links to information about the Mihama FAC rupture.  A recent FAC rupture in a condensate line at Mihama-3 killed five and injured seven.

• FACnet  To connect with other utility FAC professionals, join FACnet.

Buried Piping Services and Software

• CSI offers Buried Piping program development services, including risk ranking, NDE planning/support, and data evaluation.  We are EPRI BPIG members and have developed over 40 BP programs over the past 24 months.

• Our Buried Piping Manager software serves as a companion to EPRI's BP Works, and provides site-specific risk ranking methods, NDE data storage and retrieval, and the industry experience from 40 nuclear units.

Cooling Water/Raw Water Piping Degradation

• Cooling Water System Degradation and GL 89-13 consulting, including program development and implementation, compliance and thermal/hydraulic performance assessment, modeling, procedure development,  and inspection support.

• Fitness-for-Service Evaluations, including the application of API 579 and heat exchanger condition assessment.  More fitness-for-service resources.

Engineering Design and Analysis

• Mechanical System Design, from conceptual design development and final design to fabrication, installation, testing, operation, and support.

• Stress Analysis, including ASME B31.1, B&PV codes, and FEA.

• Hydraulic Analysis and Heat Transfer Analysis, including transient analysis and CFD.

• Development of configuration-specific hydraulic and thermal models, with computer-based Custom User Interfaces.

• FAC Manager™  Time-saving software to manage FAC inspections. View the demo, read user comments, or go to the download area.

• Composite Flow Diagrams to display all FAC-susceptible BOP lines on a single drawing, and use it to display inspections, replacements, and other information.

• iGuide, the Graphical User Interface/Drawing Environment, linking drawings and data.

• SWAMi, the Service Water Asset Management Interface database application.

CSI Technologies is an Independent Engineering Consulting and Software Development Company. We specifically use Microsoft developer tools including Visual Basic, C# and C++ and Visual Studio 2005/2008. We provide services to create database access, and custom Client Server and Web Based applications. For further information please contact CSI Technical Support. 

 

CSI Technologies offers experience in the design, development and deployment of applications for both Nuclear and Fossil fuel Power plants. Applications developed by CSI Technologies are in use in both public and private Power Utilities, including Fortune 500 companies. With particular expertise design and development of Engineering data access components using SQL Server 2005 and Server 2008, CSI Technologies offers consulting, design, development, deployment and support services for desktop, networked and Web-based applications. CSI Technologies combines infrastructure services, packaged applications, and custom Microsoft software development to support very targeted business problems faced by Utilities around the world.

 

Our newest product expected to be released in mid-late 2009 will be BP Manager which will include the technical architecture and development of a Visual Studio 2008 C# web based product to manage information pertaining to Buried Piping based on internal and external engineering guidelines including “Recommendations for an Effective Program to Control the Degradation of Buried Pipe” [8.1].  Section 1.4.3.  This product will require Internet Explorer 7.0 or above.

The application allows access to Buried Piping data from any internet connected computer with secure internet data storage and retrieval using SQL Server 2005.

The Risk Ranking function of BP Manager will be developed in C# to allow calculation of a “general risk ranking”.

 

We are also developing a Web based Visual Studio 2008 C++ application that will dynamically draw 3D isometrics from directional cosine data to give the engineer a graphical interface to manage their component inspections for multiple applications including FAC Manager, Raw Water and Buried Piping.

We have locations in Chicago and Raleigh, and serve clients across North America.  For more information, please call us at 847/836-3000 or contact us by email.

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