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Former Exelon CEO Chris Crane remembered for “transformational milestones”
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Exelon announced that Chris Crane, the company’s former chief executive, passed away on Saturday in Chicago at the age of 65.
Crane served as the company’s president and CEO from 2012 until his retirement in December 2022. During his tenure, he steered the energy company through several transformational milestones, including the successful mergers with Constellation Energy in 2012 and Pepco Holdings in 2016, creating the largest utility business by customer count in the United States.
In 2022, with the spin-off of Constellation as the generation and retail side of energy business (with the largest U.S. nuclear fleet), Crane led the creation of a stand-alone transmission and delivery energy company.
Li-Min Jin, Shuai Wu, Tong Li, Song Xue, Jia-Hua Chen, Wan-Qian Zhu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 8 | August 2022 | Pages 1020-1029
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2029676
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To study the influence of a helical wire coil on the convective heat transfer capacity of the cylindrical cooling tube, then to obtain the enhanced cooling characteristics, a comparative analysis is performed between the cases with and without the wire coil based on finite element analysis. In particular, a specific model of the cooling tube with both the smooth inner wall areas and helical wire coil area is established. By comparing the flow velocities, fluid pressures, and convective heat transfer coefficients, etc., the significant effect of a helical wire coil on improving the convective heat transfer capacity is explained quantitatively. In addition, the enhanced cooling mechanism can be described in three points, i.e., increasing the thermal contact area, thinning or destroying the boundary layer, and promoting the formation of turbulence.