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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Powering the future: How the DOE is fueling nuclear fuel cycle research and development
As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
Song Yu, Zhao Jiaqing, Zhang Yiyang, Wu Xinxin (Tsinghua Univ)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 543-548
In this paper, the influence of four different entrances and exits to flow maldistribution in air-cooled heat exchangers is presented. The flow and heat transfer are computed by the numerical solution of the governing partial differential equations including the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy. The flow maldistribution of each heat transfer tubes of four different cases are analyzed, so as the heat transfer rate. The heat transfer rate average deviation is much smaller than flow average deviation. Slight differences of total heat transfer rate are found for different cases. The reason of this phenomenon is related to the relationship between flow and heat transfer rate and the heat resistance distribution. The flow pattern in different tubes and the resistance performance of different cases are compared.
