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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.
Joe E. Dahlquist, Fred S. GL, Ralph A. Nelson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 68 | Number 2 | February 1985 | Pages 252-262
Technical Paper | Fabrication of Components of the Creys-Malville Plant / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33558
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During normal and accidental operations of a light water nuclear reactor, a wide range of thermal-hydraulic conditions may be encountered for which the critical heat flux (CHF) cannot be predicted by a single correlation. An encompassing model was developed for predicting the steady-state forced convective CHF for water over a wide range of thermal-hydraulic conditions. A CHF model is postulated using a conceptual CHF map to define possible CHF mechanisms for given thermal-hydraulic conditions. Existing steadystate CHF correlations, for which the primary CHF mechanism modeled can be identified, are then used in conjunction with the conceptual CHF map to construct a predictive CHF model. The CHF correlations used as the foundation of this model are the Westinghouse-3, the Biasi, and the Modified-Barnett correlations. These correlations allow coverage of a wide range of thermal-hydraulic conditions, provide favorable comparison with experimental data, and are commonly used in the nuclear industry. The parametric ranges covered by the resultant model are
0.3 < P (MPa) <16.0
6.0 <D (mm) <30.0
100.0 <G (kg/m2·s) < 8000.0
−0.3 <X (dimensionless) < 1.0,where P is pressure; D, the hydraulic diameter; G, the mass flux; and X is quality. The CHF model compares favorably with available experimental data and was used to construct specific CHF maps.
