A Study on Thermo-Hydraulic Analysis for KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) Cooling Line System

KSTAR(Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) 냉각 시스템에 대한 열해석 연구

  • 김홍원 (현대중공업 기술개발본부) ;
  • 하지수 (현대중공업 기술개발본부) ;
  • 김대순 (현대중공업 기술개발본부) ;
  • 이종석 (현대중공업 플랜트 사업본부) ;
  • 최창호 (한국 기초과학 지원 연구원)
  • Published : 2003.11.05

Abstract

A study on the engineering design and numerical thermo-hydraulic analysis for KSTAR TF coil structure cooling system has been conducted. The numerical analyses have been done to verify the engineering design of cooling using the commercial code, FLUENT and in-house code for calculating helium properties which varies with cooling tube's heat transfer. Through the engineering design process based on the steady heat balance concepts, the circular stainless steel tube with inner diameter of 4 mm for TF coil has been selected as cooling tube. From normal operation mode analysis results, total 28 cooling tubes were finally chosen. Also, three dimensional cool down analysis for TF coil with designed cooling tube was satisfied with next three design criteria. First is cooling work termination within a month, second is maximum temperature difference within 50 K in TF coil structure and third is exit helium pressure above 2 bar. Consequently, these cool down scenario results can afford to adopt as operating scenario data when KSTAR facilities operate.

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