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Forum Details

Forum: / IAPWS Workshop
Date: / May 11/12 2009
Location: / 17th Floor Conference Room

“Enhancing Value Through Effective Forum Management”

Forum Effectiveness Feedback

Poor / Some Improvement Needed / Met Needs & Expectations / More than Met Needs & Expectations / Excellent
1. / Meeting objectives were clearly specified? / 3 / 3 / 8 / 11
2. / Meeting objectives were accomplished? / 2 / 4 / 10 / 8
3. / Applicability of discussion to your job? / 2 / 5 / 9 / 9
4. / Length of session, use of time? / 7 / 5 / 7 / 5
5. / Organization and facilitation of meeting? / 3 / 3 / 7 / 12
6. / Facility, Rooms, Meals and Refreshments? / 1 / 2 / 6 / 16
7 / Overall effectiveness of the meeting? / 1 / 5 / 10 / 8
8 / Format and Length of this Meeting/Workshop? / 2 / 4 / 13 / 6

Please comment on the following:

Briefly describe your personal objectives for this meting?
Keeping in touch with R&D community in related area.
Get reconnected with IAPWS/SCW group.
Make and renew connections between industry and academia. This was good.
Learn more about the problems associated with the operation of Gen 3 reactors.
Meet industry collaborators, identify objectives for future research.
Member of IAPWS Gen 4 Research
Learn about field and how my expertise can contribute.
Learn general aspects o research related to CANDU
Identify research topics in connection to Gen 4. Identify other groups working on similar areas.
Make contacts with IAWPS Canadian delegates and provide overview on AECL R&D for Gen 3 and Gen 4.
Networking
To become familiar with R&D compatibility that can be applied to plant aging management. To influence R&D to assist plant O&M.
Networking with industry and R&D community. Learn about R&D needs and identify if Kinectrics has a role in any future work.
Get to know experts in this area – Get to know new approaches.
To learn the needs of industry.
To network with both researchers and industry representatives in this area.
To learn more about SCWR and SCWO.
Knows more chemistry
To learn more about research outside my field.
Understand current derivation of IAPWS
Support R&D and influence direction of research programs
Examine collaboration possibilities and see the state of the art in water and steam science.
What specific action do you plan on taking as a result of this meeting?
Explore the use of response plans as described in Tracy Gendron’s presentation.
I’ll be seeking advice from at least 3 contacts
Make further use of university contacts made during the meeting.
Get to work!
Experimental Test Plans
Follow up with participants re joint interests.
Explore two or three potential research topics; high temp electrochemical flow systems, high temperature PH measurements, nanoceramics (using SCW)
Become more involved in SCWR program familiarize myself more fully on chemistry/materials challenges.
Explore more research collaborations.
Nothing at this point
Kept abreast of developments in this area. Prepare a briefing memo for Kinectrics GM attention.
Make a list of attendees for future consulting. Distribute workshop info to colleagues.
To plan experiments accordingly and communicate with new colleagues.
Follow up contacts with emails, visits etc …
Bring similar format for the meeting.
Some new collaborations
To learn more service chemistry
I have made a few contacts and I would explore collaboration with them
None
Set up collaborative research projects
Which topics were of the greatest value to you and why?
John Jevec discussion on disposition; Derek Lister FAC talk; Craig Stuart.
SCW experiment development Why? Need to develop SCW radio analysis techniques.
Radiation chemistry Info.
Chemistry in High Temperature and Super critical water.
Radiolysis
All. I am at the beginning of the learning curve in this area of reseach.
Supercritical water chemistry, chemistry and materials in high temperature water, electrochemical sensors.
SCWR Session
Process chemistry
Most talks very very interesting but not many were directly applicable. I was impressed by the number and diversity of participants and engaged meeting and chatting with them.
Not so much value more interest in the advancements in diagnostic technology. I was mesmerized by the diamond anvil diagnostics and the muon spin – TRIUMF
Radiation chemistry and corrosion
Hearing industry needs, connecting with allied researchers
SCW session
Sections 1 4, 3 they are useful for my work.
Other steam related Applied R&D and supercrticial water chemistry
Supercritical discussions, Water purification, SCW/IGA, Hydrometallurgy.
Topics on Supercritical water for training and education
Fundamental chemistry analysis techniques and industrial applications.
What subjects do you suggest for future discussion sessions?
For future sessions, I think we should draw a clear demarcation between Gen II and Gen III (current) reactor R&D and SCW Reactors. Keeping a day aside for no SCW reactors will help keep the current reactor operators engaged. The SCW reactor discussion can be a separate meeting, which will be of less interest to utilities. This would, I think focus the speakers on the non-SCW topics that will be a more cohesive session.
Better guidelines for presenters regarding purpose of presentations – Seemed to be some confusion.
In-sites sensors for SCW; analytical techniques & procedures for monitoring chem. Processes @ SCW conditions.
Chemical Analysis
Corrosion and Radiation chemistry under SCWR conditions
More focus
Diagnostic and high temp probe development.
Collaborate between experimental and computational groups.
Put the food in a separate room/section. It was disruptive to have deliveries during presentations.
The same ones are fine
Offers of experiments on the disposition and oxidation of tubing materials.
Include more presentations from Thermal World.
Research on and tools to measure critical chemistry parameters outline.
Thermodynamic properties for high temperature extrapolation
How could we improve the conduct of this meeting?
If we could keep to one day we wouldn’t lose so much of the audience for the final session.
Ask for abstracts, control presentation time carefully, and allow more time for structured discussion. The group dynamics of the final working lunch were friendly, but not very efficient in terms of getting a good expert consensus on the issues. It might have worked better to get all participants to answer the questions on their own, on paper, first. Then the job of the discussion would be to summarize, rationalize and reduce list of issues and research priorities.
Keep presenters to time.
Same format
Stricter Chairs /Timing.
To include 20 or 30 minutes discussion period after each section can be a good addition.
Hold presenters to timeslots.
Allow more time for synthesis of ideas, long part most useful.
A more specific, identified purpose would have helped focus the presentations and the discussion working groups at the end.
Kinectrics can host the next meeting.
It was very good.
Keep speaker on time.
More time for final discussion for experts.
Provide longer planned time 30 minutes for speakers.
Presentations could be focused more toward the specific group that consisted of scientists and other in general presentations were directed more at other scientists. Schedule was not respected by most presenters.
Timings of sessions need to be followed.