Critical heat flux on a flat plate in a pool of subcooled liquid helium

Author(s):  
K. Hata
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (0) ◽  
pp. 371-372
Author(s):  
Ayaka Fujiwara ◽  
Takuya Suzuki ◽  
Takeyuki Ami ◽  
Hisashi Umekawa ◽  
Mamoru Ozawa

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
pp. 1038-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichi Mitsutake ◽  
Masanori Monde

An ultra high critical heat flux (CHF) was attempted using a highly subcooled liquid jet impinging on a small rectangular heated surface of length 5∼10mm and width 4 mm. Experiments were carried out at jet velocities of 5∼60m/s, a jet temperature of 20°C and system pressures of 0.1∼1.3MPa. The degree of subcooling was varied from 80 to 170 K with increasing system pressure. The general correlation for CHF is shown to be applicable for such a small heated surface under a certain range of conditions. The maximum CHF achieved in these experiments was 211.9 MW/m2, recorded at system pressure of 0.7 MPa, jet velocity of 35 m/s and jet subcooling of 151 K, and corresponds to 48% of the theoretical maximum heat flux proposed by Gambill and Lienhard.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumit V. Prasad ◽  
A. K. Nayak

Abstract Retention of corium inside the calandria vessel (CV) by externally cooling it by calandria vault water is essential to mitigate severe accidents in pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR). The thermal failure of CV can be prevented by effective decay heat removal on the outer surface of CV using vault water, which depends on the heat transfer behavior from the outer surface of CV to the vault water. Determination of limiting heat removal capability of vault subcooled water through outer surface of CV is very important. Since the CV has a very large diameter and length, the bottom most part of the CV almost behaves as a flat plate with downward natural convection boiling heat transfer. The natural convection heat transfer is lesser on the flat surface as compared to the curved surface of the CV. Thus, the critical heat flux (CHF) on the flat surface under downward boiling condition is the limiting CHF of the CV under external surface boiling scenario. In order to estimate CHF in this configuration with local boiling, experiments were carried out on a downward facing SS304 L flat plate simulating the conditions of CV of 700 MWel Indian PHWR. The pool boiling CHF obtained in this study is also compared with other earlier works.


Cryogenics ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 603-609
Author(s):  
T Okamura ◽  
M Saeki ◽  
K Hata ◽  
K Hama ◽  
Y Shirai ◽  
...  

Cryogenics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tatsumoto ◽  
K. Hata ◽  
K. Hama ◽  
Y. Shirai ◽  
M. Shiotsu

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