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Hydrogen Absorption/Desorption and Heat Transfer Modeling in a Concentric Horizontal ZrCo Bed

수평식 이중원통형 ZrCo 용기 내 수소 흡탈장 및 열전달 모델링

  • 박종철 (한국원자력연구원 핵주기공정개발부) ;
  • 이정민 (한국원자력연구원 핵주기공정개발부) ;
  • 구대서 (한국원자력연구원 핵주기공정개발부) ;
  • 윤세훈 (국가핵융합연구소 ITER한국사업단) ;
  • 백승우 (한국원자력연구원 핵주기공정개발부) ;
  • 정흥석 (한국원자력연구원 핵주기공정개발부)
  • Received : 2013.07.03
  • Accepted : 2013.08.31
  • Published : 2013.08.31
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Abstract

Long-term global energy-demand growth is expected to increase driven by strong energy-demand growth from developing countries. Fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations, even though it also presents so far insurmountable scientific and engineering challenges. One of the challenges is safe handling of hydrogen isotopes. Metal hydrides such as depleted uranium hydride or ZrCo hydride are used as a storage medium for hydrogen isotopes reversibly. The metal hydrides bind with hydrogen very strongly. In this paper, we carried out a modeling and simulation work for absorption/desorption of hydrogen by ZrCo in a horizontal annulus cylinder bed. A comprehensive mathematical description of a metal hydride hydrogen storage vessel was developed. This model was calibrated against experimental data obtained from our experimental system containing ZrCo metal hydride. The model was capable of predicting the performance of the bed for not only both the storage and delivery processes but also heat transfer operations. This model should thus be very useful for the design and development of the next generation of metal hydride hydrogen isotope storage systems.

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