Tender: Design and Manufacture of Scaled-Down Fast Acting Low Conductance (FALCON) Valve Prototype for STEP Prototype Powerplant

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STEP Prototype Powerplant (SPP) seeks a supplier to provide the detailed design and manufacture of a scaled-down Fast Acting Low Conductance valve (FALCON) prototype to safeguard the proposed exhaust vacuum pumping technology against disruption or sudden massive air ingress events. The scope covers the detailed design and build of the scaled-down prototype, including everything within the Vacuum Gate/Isolation valve casing (including the casing itself), with primary focus on the actuation mechanism and the seals required to maintain isolation valve operation and the vacuum integrity of the process gas line; the fast-acting valve must reach its defined 'close' position within 37.5 ms.