Published February 11, 1983 | Version v1
Patent

Double barrier heat exchanger

Description

This invention concerns a double barrier heat exchanger, between a radioactive primary fluid and a secondary fluid, enabling a possible leak of primary fluid in the exchanger to be detected in particular. As the primary fluid flows through a primary ducting and the secondary fluid through a secondary ducting, a joint matrix is placed between the primary and secondary ductings and in contact with them. The matrix includes at least on element, for example silver, able to be made radioactive when it diffuses in the primary fluid which carries it to an activation source. The application concerns sampling systems of water cooled nuclear reactors

Availability note (English)

Available from Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle, Paris (France).

Abstract (French)

La presente invention a pour objet un echangeur de chaleur a double barriere, entre un fluide primaire radioactif et un fluide secondaire, permettant notamment de detecter une eventuelle fuite du fluide primaire au niveau de l'echangeur. Ce dernier circulant dans une gaine primaire et le fluide secondaire circulant dans une gaine secondaire, une matrice de jonction est disposee entre les gaines primaire et secondaire et en contact avec celle-ci, la matrice comprenant au moins un element, par exemple l'argent, susceptible d'etre rendu radioactif lorsqu'il diffuse dans le fluide primaire qui l'entraine au niveau d'une source d'activation. L'application concerne les circuits de prelevement des reacteurs nucleaires

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (French)
Echangeur de chaleur a double barriere

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
13 p.
IPC:
Int. Cl. F28d7/02; G21c17/00; G21c19/28.
IPC
Int. Cl. F28d7/02; G21c17/00; G21c19/28.
Patent number
FR patent document 2511139/A/

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
14783976
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
HEAT EXCHANGERS; LEAK DETECTORS; PRIMARY COOLANT CIRCUITS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIOACTIVITY; SAMPLERS; SILVER; SPECIFICATIONS
Descriptors DEC
COOLING SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS; EQUIPMENT; LABORATORY EQUIPMENT; METALS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS; REACTORS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
FR patent application 8115451.