Published May 2000 | Version v1
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An experimental study of the swirl vane effect on CHF

Creators

  • 1. KAERI, Taejon (Korea, Republic of)

Description

The effect of rotational flow on Critical Heat Flux (CHF) is experimentally examined using with and without swirl vane grid units in a round tube. In addition, the optimum design of the swirl vane is also investigated with three kinds of vane angles such as 25, 30 and 35.deg.. Refrigerant R-134a is used as the working fluid for the test convenience, since this test is to under stand the relative CHF enhancement due to the existence of a swirl vane in the grid. For the results, the swirl vaned grids always showed better CHF performance than no vane grid within the tested conditions. Among the three vane angles, the 35.deg. swirl vane revealed the highest CHF in most of the cases. Particularly, for the condition of a pressure of 2.6 Mpa and a mass flux of 1500 kg/m2 s (water equivalent to the normal operation condition of PWR) the CHF enhancement is, at least, above 15%

Part of:
Proceedings of the KNS spring meeting

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
KNS
Imprint Place
Taejon (Korea, Republic of)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the KNS spring meeting
Imprint Pagination
[CDROM]
Journal Page Range
[8 p.]

Conference

Title
2000 spring meeting of the KNS
Dates
26-27 May 2000
Place
Kori (Korea, Republic of)

INIS

Country of Publication
Korea, Republic of
Country of Input or Organization
Korea, Republic of
INIS RN
34027593
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CRITICAL HEAT FLUX; DESIGN; GRIDS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; VANES; VORTEX FLOW
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRODES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLUX; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

Optional Information

Notes
6 refs, 6 figs