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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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WIPP’s SSCVS: A breath of fresh air
This spring, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced that it had achieved a major milestone by completing commissioning of the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) facility—a new, state-of-the-art, large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the DOE’s geologic repository for defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in New Mexico.
Masahiro Kinoshita, Yuji Naruse
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 82 | Number 4 | December 1982 | Pages 469-475
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21461
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This Note reports remarkable improvements in the previously reported mathematical model for multi-component separating cascades, which are applicable to the cases where the interstage flows and the stage separation factors are input variables for the calculations. The number of the independent variables is greatly decreased for much more efficient iterative calculations by the multidimensional Newton-Raphson method. Particularly, if the stage separation factors are independent of concentrations of the up and down streams, the improved model presents great decreases both in the computation time needed at each iterative step and in the number of total iterations. Several numerical experiments made for a five-component system of N2-O2-41 Ar-85Kr-133Xe, which are separated by using the porous membrane method, indicate that the total computation time is shortened by almost two orders of magnitude if the improved model is used.