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| NKS Programme Area: | NKS-R | | Research Area: | Plant life management and extension | | Report Number: | NKS-255 | | Report Title: | NOMAGE4 activities 2011, Part II, Supercritical water loop | | Activity Acronym: | NOMAGE4 | | Authors: | Pierre Vierstraete, Rudi Van Nieuwenhove, Bent Lauritzen | | Abstract: | The supercritical water reactor (SCWR) is one of the six different reactor technologies selected for research and development under the Generation IV program. Several countries have shown interest to this concept but up to now, there exist no in-pile facilities to perform the required material and fuel tests.
Working on this direction, the Halden Reactor Project has started an activity in collaboration with Risoe-DTU (with Mr. Rudi Van Nieuwenhove as the project leader) to study the feasibility of a SCW loop in the Halden Reactor, which is a Heavy Boiling Water Reactor (HBWR). The ultimate goal of the project is to design a loop allowing material and fuel test studies at significant mass flow with in-core instrumentation and chemistry control possibilities.
The present report focusses on the main heat exchanger required for such a loop in the Halden Reactor. The goal of this heat exchanger is to assure a supercritical flow state inside the test section (the core side) and a subcritical flow state inside the pump section . The objective is to design the heat exchanger in order to optimize the efficiency of the heat transfer and to respect several requirements as the room available inside the reactor hall, the maximal total pressure drop allowed and so on. | | Keywords: | Supercritical water, counter flow heat exchanger, heat exchange, pressure drop, MathCAD modelling. | | Publication date: | 01 Jan 2012 | | ISBN: | ISBN 978-87-7893-327-0 | | Number of downloads: | 2190 | | Download: |  NKS-255.pdf |
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