Title :
SP-100 GES/NAT IHX design and development
Author :
Hundal, R. ; Markley, R.A. ; Kessinger, B.A. ; Brown, G.B.
Author_Institution :
Westinghouse, Madison, PA, USA
Abstract :
The primary heat transport system (PHTS) equipment for the SP-100 ground engineering system (GES) nuclear assembly test to be conducted is discussed. The heat transport system functions as a nonprototypical lithium primary system, transferring reactor heat to a sodium secondary system by means of the intermediate heat exchanger (IHX). The design and development of the IHX is described. Due to the system arrangement, the IHX must be designed to operate with a very large temperature difference between its primary and the secondary side, resulting in the need to use double-wall heat exchanger tubing in the selected U-shell/U-tube design. The differential thermal expansion in the unit resulting from the secondary and the primary system temperatures must be taken into account in the design
Keywords :
fission reactor cooling and heat recovery; heat exchangers; heat transfer; space vehicle power plants; testing; GES; IHX; NAT; Na secondary system; PHTS; SP-100 ground engineering system; differential thermal expansion; double-wall heat exchanger tubing; fission reactor cooling; intermediate heat exchanger; nonprototypical Li primary system; nuclear assembly test; primary heat transport system; space vehicle power plants; Assembly systems; Heat engines; Heat transfer; Inductors; Lithium; Network address translation; System testing; Systems engineering and theory; Temperature; Thermal expansion;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1989. IECEC-89., Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1989.74635
