Published November 1995 | Version v1
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Water/monel heat pipes for cooling of liquid metal targets for SINQ and ESS

Creators

  • 1. Thermacore Inc., Lancaster, PA (United States)
  • 2. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)

Description

A heat pipe based heat exchanger has been designed for extracting waste thermal energy from the lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) beam target for the SINQ project at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). An array of eight heat pipes is designed to carry a thermal load of 400 kW. The heat pipes feature a double wall evaporator which can reduce the risk of injecting water directly into the liquid metal pool in the case of primary wall failure. The heat pipes can be used without redesign in a larger array in a secondary heat exchanger for mercury target cooling for the European Spallation Source (ESS). (author) 5 figs., 1 tab., 4 refs

Part of:
Proceedings of the meetings ICANS-XIII and ESS-PM4. Volume II

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Paul Scherrer Institut.
Imprint Place
Villigen (Switzerland)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the meetings ICANS-XIII and ESS-PM4. Volume II
Imprint Pagination
484 p.
Series
PSI-Proceedings 95-02.
Journal Page Range
p. 623-631.
ISSN
1019-6447
Report number
INIS-mf--14817

Conference

Title
13. meeting of the International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources (ICANS-XIII); 4. plenary meeting of the European Spallation Source Project (ESS).
Dates
11-14 Oct 1995; 16-19 Oct 1995.
Place
Villigen (Switzerland); Weinfelden (Switzerland).

INIS

Country of Publication
Switzerland
Country of Input or Organization
Switzerland
INIS RN
27059753
Subject category
S42: ENGINEERING;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT PIPES; LIQUID METALS; MONEL; NEUTRON SOURCES; SPALLATION; TARGETS; THEORETICAL DATA; WATER
Descriptors DEC
ALLOYS; DATA; ELEMENTS; FLUIDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INFORMATION; LIQUIDS; METALS; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL BASE ALLOYS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUMERICAL DATA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SOURCES; RADIATION SOURCES; TRANSITION ELEMENT ALLOYS

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