Nuclear Engineering and Technology

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  • Pages.842-848
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  • 2022
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  • 1738-5733(pISSN)
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  • 2234-358X(eISSN)
한국원자력학회 (Korean Nuclear Society)
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Heat transfer analysis in sub-channels of rod bundle geometry with supercritical water

  • Shitsi, Edward (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana) ;
  • Debrah, Seth Kofi (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana) ;
  • Chabi, Silas (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana) ;
  • Arthur, Emmanuel Maurice (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana) ;
  • Baidoo, Isaac Kwasi (National Nuclear Research Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission GAEC)
  • 투고 : 2021.03.05
  • 심사 : 2021.09.24
  • 발행 : 2022.03.25
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Parametric studies of heat transfer and fluid flow are very important research of interest because the design and operation of fluid flow and heat transfer systems are guided by these parametric studies. The safety of the system operation and system optimization can be determined by decreasing or increasing particular fluid flow and heat transfer parameter while keeping other parameters constant. The parameters that can be varied in order to determine safe and optimized system include system pressure, mass flow rate, heat flux and coolant inlet temperature among other parameters. The fluid flow and heat transfer systems can also be enhanced by the presence of or without the presence of particular effects including gravity effect among others. The advanced Generation IV reactors to be deployed for large electricity production, have proven to be more thermally efficient (approximately 45% thermal efficiency) than the current light water reactors with a thermal efficiency of approximately 33 ℃. SCWR is one of the Generation IV reactors intended for electricity generation. High Performance Light Water Reactor (HPLWR) is a SCWR type which is under consideration in this study. One-eighth of a proposed fuel assembly design for HPLWR consisting of 7 fuel/rod bundles with 9 coolant sub-channels was the geometry considered in this study to examine the effects of system pressure and mass flow rate on wall and fluid temperatures. Gravity effect on wall and fluid temperatures were also examined on this one-eighth fuel assembly geometry. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, STAR-CCM+, was used to obtain the results of the numerical simulations. Based on the parametric analysis carried out, sub-channel 4 performed better in terms of heat transfer because temperatures predicted in sub-channel 9 (corner subchannel) were higher than the ones obtained in sub-channel 4 (central sub-channel). The influence of system mass flow rate, pressure and gravity seem similar in both sub-channels 4 and 9 with temperature distributions higher in sub-channel 9 than in sub-channel 4. In most of the cases considered, temperature distributions (for both fluid and wall) obtained at 25 MPa are higher than those obtained at 23 MPa, temperature distributions obtained at 601.2 kg/h are higher than those obtained at 561.2 kg/h, and temperature distributions obtained without gravity effect are higher than those obtained with gravity effect. The results show that effects of system pressure, mass flowrate and gravity on fluid flow and heat transfer are significant and therefore parametric studies need to be performed to determine safe and optimum operating conditions of fluid flow and heat transfer systems.

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The authors are very grateful to Cd-Adapco for making it possible for the STAR-CCM + CFD code to be used at a reduced license fee. Prof. Walter Ambrosini of University of Pisa is also acknowledged for his technical support in developing cubic spline program which makes it possible for water and other coolants properties to be obtained.

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