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Urenco progresses on expansion, partners with Aalo
The startup of a new cascade of gas centrifuge at Urenco USA’s (UUSA) uranium enrichment facility in Eunice, N.M came ahead of schedule and on budget, according to the company.
Masumi Okumura, Kazuhisa Yuki, Hidetoshi Hashizume, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 1089-1093
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - First Wall, Blanket, and Shield | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A832
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In order to apply Flibe as a liquid blanket material, a heat transfer enhancement system is required because the Flibe is a high Prandtl number fluid. The purpose of this study is to visualize the detailed flow fields in the packed-bed tube, which is expected to be utilized for the heat transfer enhancement. The visualization inside the packed-bed tube from various angles is performed by using a PIV system with a refractive index matching technique. Pressure loss characteristics in the packed-bed tube whose sphere diameter is half the length of tube inside diameter are evaluated and it is found that a drag model could be suitable to estimate the pressure loss of the packed-bed tube.