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22 THE BEACON MAGAZINE | PEOPLE Masters success for Clean Energy’s part-time students Medal honours David’s work on nuclear corrosion David Tice, Chief Corrosion Scientist in Materials Science and Structural Integrity at Amec Foster Wheeler’s Clean Energy business, has been selected to receive the Coriou Medal by the European Federation of Corrosion. Among many world-leading insights and advances, he has: u Generated the most extensive data set on fatigue crack growth of stainless steel in high temperature water relevant to pressurised water reactors; Katy Greer and Cliff Harris, from Applied Chemistry and Materials, have graduated with an MSc in Corrosion Control and Engineering from Manchester University. Both were studying part time, sponsored and supported by Amec Foster Wheeler, and both were awarded a Distinction. Greg Willetts, Vice President for Consultancy, said: “I’d like to congratulate Katy and Cliff on getting very impressive results on their MSc course. “I know that managing to find time to study while working is always difficult, so that makes the achievement of a distinction all the more remarkable.” Cliff, a Senior Consultant based at Birchwood, said: “I’m extremely grateful to Amec Foster Wheeler for their sponsorship and support throughout this degree course. I feel that my career will undoubtedly benefit from having this qualification.” Katy, a Materials Consultant also based at Birchwood, added: “The MSc has been a great opportunity for me, not just in terms of gaining knowledge, but also in gaining a well-respected qualification. “The work was challenging and I am incredibly pleased to be graduating with a Distinction.” The award, which will be presented at the Eurocorr 2016 conference in Montpellier, France in September, is made to a scientist or engineer who has helped to solve nuclear corrosion issues and has made progress in understanding them. The medal design is based on an image of a stress corrosion crack in the Alloy 600 material used to make various components in pressurised water reactors. David was proposed for the award by Professor John Stairmand, Amec Foster Wheeler’s Technical Director and Chief Scientist for Materials and Structural Integrity; Professor Andrew Sherry, Chief Scientist of the National Nuclear Laboratory; Professor Stuart Lyon of Manchester University; and Dr. Alan Turnbull, Senior Fellow of the National Physical Laboratory. During more than 35 years in the nuclear industry, he has led research that has paved the way to major advances in understanding and predictive capability. He is an internationally recognised expert in environmentally-assisted cracking of nuclear materials, a process which presents one of the major threats to nuclear plant structural integrity. u Identified knowledge gaps associated with environmental fatigue endurance and set out a route map for addressing these issues, achieving a consensus amongst international experts; u Showed for the first time that sulphate-contamination of PWR environments causes initiation of environmental cracking and influences crack growth rates in low alloy pressure vessel steels. David is also a visiting Professor in the Materials Performance Centre at the University of Manchester, where he has an active role in research project support and student supervision. David Tice
THE BEACON MAGAZINE | PEOPLE 23 Nuclear exam success for HVEC team The vast pool of skills at Amec Foster Wheeler’s High-Value Engineering Centre (HVEC) in India is now at the disposal of the nuclear industry around the world. MELCOR is this year’s model for fusion MELCOR is a code used to model the behaviour of nuclear plants in severe accident conditions and interest in it has risen since Fukushima. Martin Turner and Paul Smith from Amec Foster Wheeler chaired specialist sessions at the two-day meeting in April. Our co-sponsor was Imperial College London, which provided the venue. Delegates from 18 countries heard presentations on recent updates to the programme and from users about how it is being applied for safety studies. Notable this year was the increased interest in using MELCOR to model fusion reactors. Andrew Grief and Simon Owen from Amec Foster Wheeler presented papers on this topic. Six engineers based in Chennai have passed the Award for Nuclear Industry Awareness (ANIA), a qualification designed by the UK’s National Skills Academy for Nuclear to provide a grounding in the sector’s specific requirements. Srinivas Dendukuri, Chief Engineer – Project Engineering, said: “For someone like me coming from the oil and gas sector, this course has definitely opened doors to the nuclear industry by providing an introductory engineering insight.” Meanwhile, his colleague Sankar Chockalingam, a senior electrical engineer with 13 years’ experience, is on secondment from Chennai to Birchwood, near Warrington, where he is working on his first nuclear project, designing a new intermediate-level waste store for the former fast reactor site in Dounreay, Scotland. The HVEC, which has 800 people in the main office in Chennai and another 240 in Kolkata, has been operating since 1998. Andrew Forrest, Engineering Director of Amec Foster Wheeler’s Clean Energy business, said: “Within most projects there are areas of work where a qualified engineer’s core skills can be utilised, irrespective of their industry background. Good examples are electrical design, piping design, CAD work, document control – the list goes on. “Effectively combining the HVEC’s capability with our local knowledge of the customer, site and regulatory requirements gives us a powerful competitive edge.” The HVEC’s capability covers all main engineering design disciplines (process, mechanical, CE&I and CS&A) plus procurement, construction management and project administration. Its teams use industry-leading systems throughout all disciplines including Aveva (PDMS) and Autodesk tools for 3D CAD and database-driven engineering. And with about 40% of the HVEC’s engineers boasting 15 or more years’ experience, many of them certified by UK institutes, there is no shortage of expertise. Left: Sankar Chockalingam and above, the HVEC’s successful nuclear exam candidates (left to right) Rajkumar Subramanian, Srinivas Dendukuri, Logithasan Shunmugavel, Kumaravel Margabandu, Nagarajan Krishnamurthy and Gengadharan Krishnan.
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