The Nuclear Engineering and Teaching Lab (NETL) at the University of Texas at Austin is shopping for hardware and software for its digital twin project.
According to the university’s quote request, the lab requires equipment for collecting sensor data that will be used to inform a digital twin of NETL’s TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor.
The reactor’s current hardware has not been updated since its implementation in the late 1980s. Its replacement must be viable for the next decade.
NETL seeks a system capable of performing data collection, data transfers, computation and control in real time while collecting sensor data in parallel streams.
The requested software component must support a real-time operating system, a graphical user interface that can be used by students with minimal training and a common programming language.
The university will require three sets of modular equipment that can be easily replaced when in need of maintenance.
More detailed information about solicitation No. 721-25062, including all submission requirements and requests, can be found online. Questions from vendors are due by 2 p.m. May 1. The deadline for proposals is 2:30 p.m. May 14. Rocio Torres is the point of contact for this invitation.
UT Austin Nuclear Lab Seeks Equipment for Digital Twin
The lab’s current relevant hardware has not been updated since its implementation in the late 1980s.
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