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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Sung-Jae Yi, Jin-Hwa Yang, Byong Guk Jeon, Hwang Bae, Hyun-Sik Park, Kwang-Won Seul
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 10 | October 2024 | Pages 1888-1900
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2304909
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A thermosiphon is a heat transfer device that utilizes the phase change of a liquid and has a single closed-loop shape in a gravity-dominant field. This can be expressed as a single-step thermosiphon because boiling and condensation occur once per cycle. In contrast, the multistep thermosiphon, introduced for the first time in the field of thermal engineering in this study, is a new heat transfer mechanism in which boiling and condensation occur several times per cycle in a single loop with multiple channels. The new mechanism has a superior heat transfer rate compared to the existing single-step thermosiphon, and the operating pressure of the loop can be lowered. However, as the heat transfer rate increases, the circulation flow in the channel tends to pulsate. This thermohydraulic characteristic was confirmed through theoretical and computational analyses of a two-step thermosiphon.
In this study, an improved concept of an asymmetric two-step thermosiphon was developed that can be applied to heat exchanger design by eliminating pulsating flow while maintaining the advantages of a two-step thermosiphon. The newly proposed heat transfer mechanism, termed the multistep thermosiphon, can be effectively used in the design of heat exchangers in industrial fields. In particular, if the asymmetric two-step thermosiphon is applied to the design of small nuclear reactor containments currently being developed in several countries, there are several advantages associated with the reduction of the containment volume and design pressure.