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F. P. Tsai, J. Jakobsson, I. Catton, V. K. Dhir
Nuclear Technology | Volume 65 | Number 1 | April 1984 | Pages 10-15
Technical Paper | Postaccident Debris Cooling / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33367
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An experimental investigation has been conducted of dryout heat flux in an inductively heated bed of metal particles with forced flow from beneath the bed. The mass flux varied from 0 to 3.11 kg/m2·s. Freon-113 was used as coolant. Particle sizes were 1588, 3175, and 4763 µm in diameter. The dryout heat flux was found to increase as mass flux increases. When the mass flux is large enough, the dryout heat flux asymptotically approaches the total evaporation energy of the inlet flow.
