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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
G. Le Coq, J. Lewi, P. Raymond
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 1 | May 1982 | Pages 1-8
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A19590
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The use of the one-dimensional two-phase flow six-equation model requires knowledge of mass, momentum, and energy transfers between the phases. These transfers can be expressed from the flow parameters and their derivatives. The first part of this paper is devoted to the formulation of the entropy production at the interface as a function of the velocity, Gibbs potential and temperature of each phase. It is assumed that each transfer can be expressed in the form where R is the reversible part and δR the irreversible part of the transfer R. The linear theory of irreversible thermodynamics allows the formulation of δR. The expression of R may include differential terms. In the second part of this paper, we show how to write interfacial transfer terms to reduce the six-equation model into a lower order model. The last part of this paper presents an original method for computing critical flow, taking into account the flow blockage phenomenon, which is observed when variations of downstream conditions do not produce any significant effect on the upstream flow, even though the fluid velocity is less than the sound velocity.