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College students help develop waste measuring device at Hanford
A partnership between Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and Washington State University has resulted in the development of a device to measure radioactive and chemical tank waste at the Hanford Site. WRPS is the contractor at Hanford for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Wenxi Tian, Kuanghan Deng, (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ), Yun Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ/Nuclear Power Inst of China), G. H. Su (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 1133-1141
The flow boiling critical heat flux (CHF) of nanofluid in a vertical tube is affected by many influence factors, like type and concentration of nanofluid, pressure and mass flux. In this work, these influence factors was investigated experimentally. The results revealed that both AlN/H2O and Al2O3/H2O nanofluid could improve flow boiling CHF and enhancement rate could up to 18% maximally compared with deionized water. Nanofluid flow boiling CHF increases with increasing pressure, mass flux and diameter of test tube and decreases with increasing heating length of test tube. Meanwhile, the type and concentration of nanofluid has nearly no influence on CHF value. Furthermore, a mechanism which from the view point of nanoparticles deposition and adhering force of nanoparticles deposition layer was proposed to explain the CHF enhancement of nanofluid.
