The outlet water temperature limits for the Hanford production reactors are based, among other things, on the ability to prevent excessive fuel temperatures during or following inadvertent flow losses or power surges. The analyses involved in the determination of the limits are dependent upon laboratory heat transfer experiments which closely simulate actual reactor conditions in a single process tube. The heat transfer experiments are quite complex in that they involve the recording of rapid changes in pressure, temperature, flow, and heat generation rates. As a preliminary to these transient heat transfer experiments, selected steady state experiments are performed to better …
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The outlet water temperature limits for the Hanford production reactors are based, among other things, on the ability to prevent excessive fuel temperatures during or following inadvertent flow losses or power surges. The analyses involved in the determination of the limits are dependent upon laboratory heat transfer experiments which closely simulate actual reactor conditions in a single process tube. The heat transfer experiments are quite complex in that they involve the recording of rapid changes in pressure, temperature, flow, and heat generation rates. As a preliminary to these transient heat transfer experiments, selected steady state experiments are performed to better plan the experimental program and to aid in the analysis of the problem. This document presents the results of some steady state experiments performed at low tube powers for K-reactor. The results are reported separately from the transient experiments because the data are useful for reactor problems involving shutdown cooling and are also of value to people interested in pressure drop of two phase mixtures.
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Waters, E. D. & Fitzsimmons, D. E.Hydraulic demand curves for K-reactor geometry at low tube powers,
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