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UM conducts molten salt experiment
For 2,300 hours, the molten salt pump Shaft Seal Test Facility (SSTF) operated at the University of Michigan’s Thermal Hydraulics Laboratory, according to an article from UM. The large-scale experiment was designed to evaluate shaft seal performance in high-temperature pump systems. Fewer than 10 facilities worldwide have successfully operated fluoride or chloride salts for more than 100 hours using over 10 kilograms of material.
R. T. Jacobs, J. A. Merrill
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 6 | December 1960 | Pages 480-496
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25834
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The comparative correlations of this report thoroughly demonstrate that significantly more precise equations for calculating burnout heat flux can be obtained by following the proposed “system-describing” concept, that if the independent, system-describing variables of a system are known, the burnout heat flux can be predicted. With this concept, the independent variable of inlet temperature has been used rather than the dependent variable of outlet subcooling or enthalpy. The same statistical (regression analysis) method of correlation was used for burnout data from several sources with both inlet temperature and outlet enthalpy so that the consistently better predictions using inlet temperature would not be attributed to using a different method of correlation. Due to the fact that Reactor technology and design no longer allow the engineer safety factor added upon safety factor, a decided advantage of the regression analysis correlation is that it is possible to calculate the statistical uncertainty of the predicted burnout heat flux.