Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer of Supercritical Water Flowing in the Subchannel with Grid Spacer in Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactor

Numerical investigation of heat transfer in parallel channels with water at supercritical pressure

Thermal phenomena such as heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer deterioration, and flow instability observed at supercritical pressures as a result of fluid property variations have the potential to affect the safety of design and operation of Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor SCWR, and also challenge the capabilities of both heat transfer correlations and Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD p...

Numerical Investigation of the Flow and Heat Transfer within the Core Cooling Channel of a Supercritical Water Reactor

Supercritical Water Radiolysis Chemistry Supercritical Water Corrosion

The direct measurement of the chemistry in reactor cores is extremely difficult. The extreme conditions of high temperature, pressure, and radiation fields, are not compatible with normal chemical instrumentation. There are also problems of access to fuel channels in the reactor core. For these reasons, all reaction vendors and many operators have extensively used theoretical calculations and c...

Experimental Investigation on CuO/Water Nanofluid Effect on the Heat Transfer Rate of Heat Pipe Network

In this study, a new configuration of heat pipes as Heat Pipe Network is introduced. Here, the heat pipe network is designed, constructed and then has been under the performance assessment. This heat pipe network consists of 4 vertical heat pipes connected to evaporator collector from bottom and condenser collector from top. In order to investigate the effect of nanofluids on the thermal effici...

An experimental investigation of heat transfer of Fe2O3/Water nanofluid in a double pipe heat exchanger

One way to increase the heat transfer is to use perforated twisted tapes with different hole diameters, which largely improve heat transfer with an increase in the heat transfer area at the constant volume and more mixed flow. In the previous studies, the effect of nanofluids with perforated twisted tapes is less studied. In this work, the performance of water / iron oxide nanofluid in a double...