Experimental study on transient performance of heat pipe-cooled passive residual heat removal system of a molten salt reactor

2020 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 103113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenglong Wang ◽  
Minghao Liu ◽  
Dalin Zhang ◽  
Suizheng Qiu ◽  
G.H. Su ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Chenglong Wang ◽  
Suizheng Qiu ◽  
Wenxi Tian ◽  
Yingwei Wu ◽  
Guanghui Su

High temperature heat pipes are effective devices for heat transfer, which are characterized by remarkable advantages in conductivity, isothermality and passivity. It is of significance to apply heat pipes on new concept passive residual heat removal system (PRHRS) of molten salt reactor (MSR). In this paper, the transient performance of high temperature sodium heat pipe is simulated with numerical method in the case of MSR accident. The model of the heat pipe is composed of three conjugate heat transfers, i.e. the vapor space, wick structure and wall. Based on finite element method, the governing equations and boundary conditions are solved by using FORTRAN code to acquire the profiles of the temperature, velocity and pressure for the heat pipe transient operation. The results indicated that high temperature sodium heat pipe had a good operating characteristic and removed the residual heat of fuel salt rapidly under the accident of MSR.


2020 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 107527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenglong Wang ◽  
Qianni Duan ◽  
Minghao Liu ◽  
Dalin Zhang ◽  
Suizheng Qiu ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 691-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenglong Wang ◽  
Dalin Zhang ◽  
Suizheng Qiu ◽  
Wenxi Tian ◽  
Yingwei Wu ◽  
...  

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