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- Anghel, Ionut Gheorghe, et al.
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Experimental investigation of post-dryout heat transfer in annuli with flow obstacles
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Conferecne Nulclear Energy for New Europa 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- An experimental study on post-dryout heat transfer was conducted in the High-pressure WAter Test (HWAT) loop at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The objective of the experiments was to investigate the influence of flow obstacles on the post-dryout heat transfer. The investigated operational conditions include mass flux equal to 500 kg/(m2s), inlet sub-cooling 10 K and system pressure 5 and 7 MPa. The experiments were performed in annuli in which the central rod was supported with five pin spacers. Two additional types of flow obstacles were placed in the exit part of the test section: a cylinder supported on the central rod only and a typical BWR grid spacer cell. The measurements indicate that flow obstacles improve heat transfer in the boiling channel. It has been observed that the dryout power is higher when additional obstacles are present. In addition the wall temperature in post-dryout heat transfer regime is reduced due to increased turbulence and drop deposition. The present data can be used for validation of computational models of postdryout heat transfer in channels with flow obstacles.
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- Anghel, Ionut Gheorghe, et al.
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Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Flow Obstacles on Post-Dryout Heat Transfer in an Annulus
- 2009
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Ingår i: ICONE 17. - NEW YORK : AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. - 9780791843536 ; , s. 277-286
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes the experimental setup, instrumentation and procedures which have been developed in the thermal-hydraulic laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, to perform new post-dryout heat transfer investigations in an annulus with flow obstacles. Previous investigations performed in the same laboratory indicated that flow obstacles had a considerable influence on the post-CHF heat transfer. The measured heat transfer enhancement was significantly under-predicted by existing models. However, the net effect of obstacles could not be deduced from the measurements, since reference - obstacle-free measurements- had not been performed. In addition, the number of thermocouples that could be installed inside the heated rod was limited to 8. These deficiencies have been removed in the current approach. Firstly, the present design of the test section allows for measurements both with and without flow obstacles. In this way the net effect of the obstacles will be captured. Secondly, a newly developed technique allowed the installation of 40 thermocouples inside of the heated rod. An additional 40 thermocouples have been installed on the external wall of the heated tube. Therefore, a significant improvement of the accuracy of measurements can be expected. The present arrangement of instrumentation is suitable to perform measurements of heat transfer under both steady-state and transient conditions.
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- Anghel, Ionut Gheorghe, et al.
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Experimental investigatons of heat transfer at dry patch location in annular two-phase flow
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of ICONE19. 19th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- New experiments have been performed to investigate heat transfer to water/steam two-phase mixture flowing in annular test section at trans-dryout conditions. The measurements have been carried out in the High-pressure Water Test (HWAT) loop at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The primary objective of the experimental investigations has been to study heat transfer at conditions typical for Boiling Water Reactors (BWR), when heat transfer regime changes from convective boiling to post-dryout heat transfer. The experiments indicate a significant enhancement of heat transfer just upstream of dryout patch. It has been observed that the measured heat transfer coefficient is in good agreement with the Chen correlation for quality less than 30%, however, increasing discrepancy is noted for near-critical quality.
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- Anghel, Ionut Gheorghe
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Experimental Study of Post-Dryout Heat Transferin Annuli with Flow Obstacles
- 2011
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An experimental study on post dryout heat transfer regime in annuli with flow obstacles was conducted in the High-pressure Water Test (HWAT) loop at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. An annulus consisting of two concentric heated pipes (12.7x24.3) mm, with total heated length equal to 3650 mm was employed as a test section. Three kinds of flow obstacles were used: pin-spacers, cylindrical obstacles and grid obstacles. The experiments performed in the test section with pin-spacers only were considered as the reference case. In two consecutive sets of runs, additional obstacles were placed inside the flow channel while keeping the pin spacers in the same positions. In that way the net effect of obstacles on heat transfer was measured. The experimental investigations were performed in a wide range of the operational conditions: mass flux (500-1750) kg/(m2s), inlet subcooling (10-40) K and system pressure (5-7) MPa. The wall superheat was measured at 88 different axial positions (40 on the inner tube and 48 on the outer tube) for the conditions mentioned above. A local heat transfer coefficient was calculated based on the measured annulus wall temperatures and the saturated fluid (water) properties. The results show an enhancement of the heat transfer coefficient downstream of flow obstacles. The most significant influence has been observed in case of pin spacers. This result is consistent with blockage area of various obstacles, which was the highest in case of pin spacers. The data obtained in more than 200 runs were compared with two pre-dryout and post-dryout correlations. The correlations show a slight over-prediction of the heat transfer coefficient in both pre-dryout and post-dryout regions. The thesis contains a detailed description of experimental procedures as well as an analysis of the results of measurements.
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- Anghel, Ionut Gheorghe, et al.
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Post-dryout heat transfer to high-pressure water flowing upward in vertical channels with various flow obstacles
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. - : Elsevier BV. - 0017-9310 .- 1879-2189. ; 55:25-26, s. 8020-8031
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Post-dryout heat transfer to high pressure water was investigated experimentally in vertical tubes and annuli containing various flow obstacles. The operational conditions during the experiments were as follows: mass flux from 500 to 1750 kg/m(2) s. pressure from 5 to 9 MPa, inlet subcooling from 10 to 40K and heat flux up to 1.5 MW/m(2). Five different test sections were used in experiments: three annular test sections with inner diameter 12.7 mm and outer diameter 24.3 mm, containing cylindrical and grid flow obstacles in the upper part, and two tubular test sections with inner diameter 24.3 mm with and without pin flow obstacles. The heated length in all test sections was 3650 mm. The wall temperature was measured with 88 thermocouples located along the inner rod and the outer tube surfaces. Due to the presence of flow obstacles, only developing post-dryout heat transfer was observed. Selected post-dryout heat transfer correlations were compared to the experimental data. It has been concluded that all tested correlations predict significantly higher wall temperatures than those obtained in the present experiment. A simple correction function to the Saha model has been suggested which significantly improves the agreement between the correlation and the present data.
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- Anghel, Ionut Gheorghe, et al.
(författare)
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Study of post dryout heat transfer in annulus with flow obstacles
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 14th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC14).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to present the experimental setup, experimental method and results of the recent post-dryout heat transfer investigations in an annulus with pin spacers. The experiments were performed in the thermal-hydraulic laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. The experimental facility has an annular test section which consists of two double-heated concentric tubes manufactured of Inconel 600. Five levels of pin spacers were installed along the test section to keep the rod and the tube equidistant during experiments. The experimental matrix includes measurements of wall temperature distributions for single phase and twophase flows, for both convective boiling and postdryout heat transfer regimes. The influence of variations in mass flux (500-1500) kg/(m2s) and inlet subcooling 10 and 40 K at system pressure of 7 Mpa were investigated. The experimental results indicate that post dryout heat transfer is influenced by the pin spacers. In particular it has been observed that the dry patch appearing in the test section can be quenched downstream of the pins-spacer. The current results provide additional experimental database which can be used for validation of post-dryout heat transfer models including the flow obstacle effects.
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