Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of One Side Heated Vertical Rectangular Channel Inserting Porous Material

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takumi Shigematsu ◽  
Tetsuaki Takeda ◽  
Shumpei Funatani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Porous Material ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Natural Circulation ◽  
Rectangular Channel ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Vertical Channel ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Fluid Flow Characteristics ◽  
Passive Cooling System

The Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) is a next generation nuclear reactor system. The passive cooling system should be designed for the VHTR as the best way of reactor vessel cooling system (VCS). Therefore, the gas cooling system with natural circulation is considered as a candidate for the VCS of the VHTR. Furthermore, we examined the heat transfer of rectangular vertical channel using “Spandrel” panel. “Spandrel” is the metallic plate having grooved patterns. The reason is that we can set it at low cost to the VCS because it is a kind of general construction materials. The objective of this study is to examine heat transfer characteristics of one side heated vertical rectangular channel with natural circulation and application of spandrel panel to the VCS of VHTR in order to construct the passive cooling system of the VHTR. We have performed an experiment and a numerical analysis. On experiment, we set the panel to adiabatic wall and supplied 100–400W/m2 heat flux to the panel. In order to obtain the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of a vertical channel inserting porous material, we have also carried out a numerical analysis using the commercial CFD code as the first step. From the results obtained in the analysis, it was found that the amount of heat removal was increased for 1–21% by inserting copper wires as porous material. This paper describes a thermal performance of the one-side heated vertical rectangular channel inserting copper wire with high porosity. From the view point of the economical and safety characteristic, the passive cooling system should be designed for the VTHR as the best way of the system. So, the gas cooling system by natural convection is the one of candidate system.

Heat Transfer Characteristics of One Side Heated Vertical Rectangular Channel Inserting Porous Material

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuaki Takeda ◽  
Akihiro Sato ◽  
Shumpei Funatani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
Porous Material ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Copper Wire ◽  
Rectangular Channel ◽  
Vertical Channel ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
The One ◽  
Passive Cooling System

The objective of this study is to not only investigate heat transfer characteristics of natural convection of a one-side heated vertical channel inserting the porous materials with high porosity but also develop the passive cooling system for the Very-High-Temperature Reactor (VHTR). An experiment and analysis was carried out using the one-side heated vertical rectangular channel. From the results obtained in the experiment and analysis, it was found that an amount of removed heat by forced convection using the copper wire (porosity>0.996) was about 15% higher than that without the wire. It was also found that the amount of transferred heat from the heated wall will be increased even if the heat removed by natural convection. Furthermore, the ratio between the amounts of heat removed of the rectangular channel with the porous material and without the porous material increases with increasing temperature of the channel wall. In order to obtain the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of the vertical channel inserting porous material, we have also carried out a numerical analysis using a commercial CFD code. This paper describes thermal performances of the one-side heated vertical rectangular channel inserting copper wire with high porosity. From a view point of economical and safety characteristics, the passive cooling system should be designed for the VHTR as the best way of the system. Therefore, the gas cooling system by natural convection is the one of candidate system.

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of One Side Heated Vertical Rectangular Channel Applied As Vessel Cooling System of VHTR

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenta Fujikami ◽  
Tetsuaki Takeda ◽  
Shumpei Funatani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
Porous Material ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
High Temperature Reactor ◽  
Fluid Flow Characteristics

A Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) is one of the next generation nuclear reactor systems. From a view point of safety characteristics, a passive cooling system should be designed as the best way of a reactor vessel cooling system (VCS) in the VHTR. Therefore, the gas cooling system with natural circulation is considered as a candidate for the VCS of the VHTR. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is advancing the technology development of the VHTR and is now pursuing design and development of commercial systems such as the 300MWe gas turbine high temperature reactor GTHTR300C (Gas Turbine High Temperature Reactor 300 for Cogeneration). In the VCS of the GTHTR300C, many rectangular flow channels are formed around the reactor pressure vessel (RPV), and a cooling panel utilizing natural convection of air has been proposed. In order to apply the proposed panel to the VCS of the GTHTR300C, it is necessary to clarify the heat transfer and flow characteristics of the proposed channel in the cooling panel. Thus, we carried out an experiment to investigate heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics by natural convection in a vertical rectangular channel heated on one side. Experiments were also carried out to investigate the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics by natural convection when a porous material with high porosity is inserted into the channel. An experimental apparatus is a vertical rectangular flow channel with a square cross section in which one surface is heated by a rubber heater. Dimensions of the experimental apparatus is 600 mm in height and 50 mm on one side of the square cross section. Air was used as a working fluid and fine copper wire (diameter: 0.5 mm) was used as a porous material. The temperature of the wall surface and gas in the channel were measured by K type thermocouples. The flow velocity distribution was obtained by a PIV method. In this paper, we discuss the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of the proposed channel. From the results obtained in the experiment, it was found that the amount of removed heat decreased with increasing of temperature of gas when a copper wire was inserted into the channel with high porosity. This is because the mass flow rate decreased with increasing of viscosity of gas. Since it is expected that the porosity of a porous material will have an optimum value, further studies will be needed.

Thermal Performance of Vertical Rectangular Channel Inserting Copper Wire With High Porosity

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuaki Takeda ◽  
Akira Honma ◽  
Yuta Sugai
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Porous Material ◽  
Forced Convection ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Copper Wire ◽  
Rectangular Channel ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The One ◽  
Passive Cooling System

In the Very-High-Temperature Reactor (VHTR) which is the next generation nuclear reactor system, ceramics and graphite are used as the fuel coating material and the core structural material, respectively. Even if the accident occurs and the reactor power goes up instantly, the temperature of the core will change slowly. This is because the thermal capacity of the core is so large. Therefore, the VHTR system can passively remove the decay heat of the core by natural convection and radiation from the surface of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV). From the view point of the safety characteristic, the passive cooling system should be designed for the VHTR as the best way of the reactor and vessel cooling systems (VCS). So, the gas cooling system by natural convection is the one of the candidate systems for the VCS of the VHTR. This study is to develop the passive cooling system for the VHTR using the vertical rectangular channel inserting porous materials. In general, when the high temperature circular or rectangular channels are cooled by forced convection of gas, there are several methods for enhancement of heat transfer such as attaching radial or spiral fins on a channel surface or inserting twisted tape in a channel. The objective of this study is to investigate heat transfer characteristics by forced convection of porous materials inserted into a rectangular channel with high porosity. In order to obtain the heat transfer characteristics of the one-side heated vertical rectangular channel inserting the porous material, an experiment was carried out. From the results obtained in this experiment, it was found that an amount of removed heat by forced convection using porous material (porosity > 0.996) was about 15% higher than that without the copper wire. Furthermore, the ratio between the amounts of heat removed of the rectangular channel with the porous material and without the porous material increases with increasing temperature of the channel wall.

Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of One Side Heated Vertical Rectangular Channel Inserting Copper Wire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuaki Takeda ◽  
Shumpei Funatani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Copper Wire ◽  
Rectangular Channel ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Vertical Channel ◽  
High Porosity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Very High Temperature Reactor ◽  
Fluid Flow Characteristics ◽  
The One

In the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) which is a next generation nuclear reactor system, ceramics and graphite are used as a fuel coating material and a core structural material, respectively. Even if the depressurization accident occurs and the reactor power goes up instantly, the temperature of the core will change slowly. This is because the thermal capacity of the core is so large. Therefore, the VHTR system can passively remove the decay heat of the core by natural convection and radiation from the surface of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV). The objective of this study is to not only investigate heat transfer characteristics of natural convection of a one-side heated vertical channel inserting the porous materials with high porosity but also develop the passive cooling system for the Very-High-Temperature Reactor (VHTR). An experiment was carried out using the one-side heated vertical rectangular channel. In order to obtain the heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of the vertical channel inserting porous material, we have also carried out a numerical analysis using a commercial CFD code. This paper describes thermal performances of the one-side heated vertical rectangular channel inserting copper wire with high porosity.

On Efficient Passive Cooling of Control Rod Drivers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Gershuni ◽  
A. P. Nishchik ◽  
V. G. Razumovskiy ◽  
I. L. Pioro
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Natural Convection ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Vertical Channel ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Primary Circuit ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Primary Coolant ◽  
Control Rod

Experimental research of natural convection and the ways of its suppression in an annular vertical channel to simulate the conditions of cooling the control rod drivers of the reactor protection system (RPS) in its so-called wet design, where the drivers are cooled by primary circuit water supplied due to the system that includes branched pipelines, valves, pump, heat exchanger, etc., is reported. Reliability of the drivers depends upon their temperature ensured by operation of an active multi-element cooling system. Its replacement by an available passive cooling system is possible only under significant suppression of natural convection in control rod channel filled with primary coolant. The methods of suppression of natural convection proposed in the work have demonstrated the possibility both of minimization of axial heat transfer and of almost complete elimination of temperature non-uniformity and oscillation inside the channel under the conditions of free travel of moving element (control rod) in it. The obtained results widen the possibilities of substitution of the active systems of cooling the RPS drivers by reliable passive systems, such as high-performance heat-transfer systems of evaporation-condensation type with heat pipes or two-phase thermosyphons as heat-transferring elements.

Correlation Investigation of Condensation Heat Exchanger Design for Secondary Passive Cooling System

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee Joon Lee ◽  
Han-Ok Kang ◽  
Tae-Ho Lee ◽  
Cheon-Tae Park
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Condensation Heat Transfer ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Heat Transfer Correlation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Heat Exchanger Design ◽  
Passive Cooling System

Recently vertical or horizontal type condensation heat exchangers are being studied for the application to secondary passive cooling system of nuclear plants. To design vertical condensation heat exchanger in water pool, a thermal sizing program of condensation heat exchanger, TSCON (Thermal Sizing of CONdenser) was developed in KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute). In this study, condensation heat transfer correlation of TSCON is evaluated with the existing experimental data set to design condensation heat exchanger without non-condensable gas (pure steam condensation). From the investigation of the existing condensation heat transfer correlation to the existing experimental data, the improved Shah correlation showed most satisfactory results for the heat transfer coefficient and mass flow rate in a heat exchanger in both subcooled and saturated water pools without the presence of non-condensable gas.

scholarly journals 2D Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Fish-Tail Locomotion Vortex Generators

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-392
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hashim Yousif ◽  
Hakim T. Kadhim ◽  
Kadhim K. Idan Al-Chlaihawi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Friction Factor ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Rectangular Channel ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Vortex Generators ◽  
Transfer Enhancement ◽  
Number Range ◽  
Maximum Value ◽  
Fluid Flow Characteristics

In this paper, a numerical simulation is performed to study the effect of two types of concave vortex generators (VGs), arranged as fish-tail locomotion in a rectangular channel. The heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics with and without VGs are examined over the Reynolds number range 200≤Re≤2200.The two proposed types of the VGs are selected based on the speed of the fish movement which is arranged in different distances between them (d/H=0.6, 1, 1.3). The results show that the use of VGs can significantly enhance the heat transfer rate, but also increases the friction factor. The heat transfer performance is enhanced by (4-21.1%) reaching the maximum value by using the first type of the VGs at (d/H=1.3) due to better mixing of secondary flow and the new arrangement of the VGs which lead to decreasing the friction factor with an easy flow of fluid.

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