The Effects of Mass Flow Rate in an Indirect Ultra-High Temperature Processing System

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 490-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.H. Varzakas ◽  
A.E. Labropoulo
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Processing System ◽  
High Temperature Processing ◽  
Ultra High Temperature

A Novel Technique for Measuring Stagnation Quantities and Gas Composition in High Temperature Flows

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Massini ◽  
Robert J. Miller ◽  
Howard P. Hodson ◽  
Nick Collings
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Stagnation Pressure ◽  
Temperature Measurements ◽  
Stagnation Temperature ◽  
Gas Composition ◽  
Reference Measurements

A new probe has been developed to measure the time averaged stagnation temperature, stagnation pressure and gas composition. This probe can be used in the high temperature regions of gas turbines, including downstream of the combustor and in the first stages of the high pressure turbines, as well as in other environments. The principal benefits of the new probe are that it overcomes the limitations of the standard methods that are used to measure temperature in high temperature environments and that it replaces three separate probes, for the three quantities mentioned above, with one single probe. A novel method of measuring temperature is used, which improves upon the accuracy of thermocouples and increases the temperature operating range. The probe consists of a choked nozzle placed in the hot flow at the point of interest. The working principle is based on the theory that for a choked nozzle, there is a fixed relationship between the stagnation quantities, the gas characteristics and the mass flow rate through the nozzle. The probe has an aspirated phase, where the gas composition and the mass flow rate are measured and a stagnated phase, where the stagnation pressure is measured. The stagnation temperature is determined from the above quantities. The operating principle has been proven valid through laboratory and rig tests. The probe has been successfully tested in a Rolls-Royce Viper engine up to 1000K and 2 bar and in a combustor rig up to 1800K and 4 bars. Measurements of stagnation temperature, stagnation pressure and gas compositions for these tests are presented in the paper and are compared with reference measurements. The accuracy of stagnation pressure and gas composition measurements is equal to the accuracy achievable with techniques that are commonly used in gas turbines. The estimated achievable accuracy of the aspirated probe in terms of temperature measurements is ±0.6%, i.e. ±10K at 1800K, which improves upon the accuracy of temperature measurements performed with standard thermocouples at the same temperatures, the uncertainty of which could be as high as ±2%.

Design, Operation and Maintenance of Thermal Hydraulic Instrumentation System of HTR-10

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liqiang Wei ◽  
Shuoping Zhong
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Steam Pressure ◽  
Coolant Temperature ◽  
Primary Loop ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
Main Steam ◽  
High Temperature Gas

The 10 MW high temperature gas-cooled reactor–test module (HTR-10) reached the first critical at the end of year 2000, and has been running for over 9 years safely and stably till now. Comparing with the Pressure Water Reactor (PWR), HTR-10 has many different characteristics, such as core construction, special fuel elements, helium coolant and so on. Thus the thermal hydraulic parameter measurement has special requirement and it is indispensable to select or develop some new class 1E instrumentation and devices. This paper describes measurement requirements, measurement method and measurement instrumentations for measuring coolant temperature, primary loop pressure, primary loop mass flow rate, primary loop humidity, main steam pressure, feedwater mass flow rate, in-core components temperature, pressure vessel surface temperature. The class 1E sheathed thermocouples and thermocouple penetration assembly, the class 1E orifice plate throttle device, and the data acquisition and supervision system that were developed by the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) according to the criteria IEEE 323 and IEEE 344 are introduced in detail. HTR-10 has been operated successfully for over 9 years up to the present. The operation and maintenance experience of above-mentioned instrumentations shows they are safe and reliable at normal and abnormal conditions. The experience described in this paper is valuable for the latter 2 × 250 MW modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor.

scholarly journals Thermal performance measurement of additive manufactured high-temperature compact heat exchangers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2116 (1) ◽  
pp. 012095
Author(s):  
M. Fuchs ◽  
D. Heinrich ◽  
X. Luo ◽  
S. Kabelac
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Heat Exchangers ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Temperature Heat

Abstract Due to increased distribution of high-temperature processes in energy and process plants, more efficient and compact high-temperature heat exchangers are being developed. The additive manufacturing allows the construction of compact sizes and application-specific requirements. To evaluate the thermal performance of these heat exchangers, experimental investigations are evident. This study presents a test rig for testing compact high-temperature heat exchangers as well as a first set of thermal performance data of an additively manufactured plate-fin heat exchanger. The test rig can provide a maximum fluid temperature of 900°C and a maximum mass flow rate of 0.8 kg/min. A steam unit can add steam to the fluid stream to evaluate the influence of gas radiation on the thermal performance. The capabilities of this test rig are being tested with the plate-fin heat exchanger, varying the mass flow rate between 0.2 - 0.52 kg/min at a hot and cold inlet temperature of 750°C and 250°C. The overall effectiveness of the heat exchanger is approx. 0.9.

scholarly journals Analysis of Precooling Injection Transient of Steam Generator for High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Lei Shi ◽  
Yanhua Zheng
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Steam Generator ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Water Injection ◽  
Normal Operation ◽  
Coolant Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Gas

After a postulated design basis accident leads high temperature gas cooled reactor to emergency shutdown, steam generator still remains with high temperature level and needs to be cooled down by a precooling before reactor restarts with clearing of fault. For the large difference of coolant temperature between inlet and outlet of steam generator in normal operation, the temperature distribution on the components of steam generator is very complicated. Therefore, the temperature descending rate of the components in steam generator needs to be limited to avoid the potential damage during the precooling stage. In this paper, a pebble-bed high temperature gas cooled reactor is modeled by thermal-hydraulic system analysis code and several postulated precooling injection transients are simulated and compared to evaluate their effects, which will provide support for the precooling design. The analysis results show that enough precooling injection is necessary to satisfy the precooling requirements, and larger mass flow rate of precooling water injection will accelerate the precooling process. The temperature decrease of steam generator is related to the precooling injection scenarios, and the maximal mass flow rate of the precooling injection should be limited to avoid the excessively quick temperature change of the structures in steam generator.

Radiation and Convection Heat Flux Sensor for High Temperature Gas Environment

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Martins ◽  
Maria da Graça Carvalho ◽  
Naim Afgan ◽  
Alexander Ivanovich Leontiev
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Flux Measurement ◽  
Heat Fluxes ◽  
Sensing Element ◽  
Porous Element

The heat flux measurement is one of the essential parameter for the diagnostic of thermal systems. In the high temperature environment there are difficulties in differentiating between the convective and radiation component of heat flux on the heat transfer surface. A new method for heat flux measurement is being developed using a porous sensing element. The gas stream flowing through the porous element is used to measure the heat received by the sensor surface exposed to the hot gas environment and to control whether or not the sensing element receives the convection component of the total heat flux. It is possible to define a critical mass flow rate corresponding to the destruction of the boundary layer over the sensing element. With subcritical mass flow rate the porous sensing element will receive both the convective and radiative heat fluxes. A supercritical mass flow rate will eliminate the convective component of the total heat flux. Two consecutive measurements considering respectively a critical and a sub-critical mass flow rate can be used to determine separately the convection and radiation heat fluxes. A numerical model of sensor with appropriate boundary condition has been developed in order to perform analysis of possible options in the design of the sensor. The analysis includes: geometry of element, physical parameters of gas and solid and gas flow rate through the porous element. For the optimal selection of the relevant parameters an experimental set-up was designed, including the sensor element with corresponding cooling and monitoring system and high temperature radiation source. Applying the respective measuring procedure the calibration curve of the sensor was obtained. The linear dependency of the heat flux and respective temperature difference of the gas was verified. The accuracy analysis of the sensor reading has proved high linearity of the calibration curve and accuracy of ± 5%.

scholarly journals Numerical Evaluation of Novel Particle Release Patterns in High-Temperature Falling Particle Receivers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brantley Mills ◽  
Clifford K. Ho
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Particle Mass ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Volumetric Heating ◽  
Particle Release

Novel particle release patterns have been proposed as a means to increase the thermal efficiency of high-temperature falling particle receivers. Innovative release patterns offer the ability to utilize light-trapping and volumetric heating effects as a means to increase particle temperatures over a conventional straight-line particle release pattern. The particle release patterns explored in this work include wave-like patterns and a series of parallel curtains normal to the incident irradiation that have shown favorable results in previous numerical studies at lower particle temperatures. A numerical model has recently been developed of an existing falling particle receiver at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories to evaluate these patterns at elevated temperatures necessary to evaluate radiative and convective losses. This model has demonstrated that thermal efficiency gains of 2.5–4.6% could be realized using these patterns compared to the conventional planar release depending on the particle mass flow rate. Increasing the number of parallel curtains, increasing the spacing between curtains, and shifting the particle mass flow rate deeper in the receiver cavity was also found to increase the thermal efficiency. These effects became less significant as the particle mass flow rate increased.

The standard unit mass flow rate of gas-liquid mixtures

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
V.N. Petrov ◽  
◽  
V.F. Sopin ◽  
L.A. Akhmetzyanova ◽  
Ya.S. Petrova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Liquid Mixtures ◽  
Unit Mass ◽  
Standard Unit

Prediction of Leakage Mass Flow Rate Through Gas Springs

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Bruno Bossio ◽  
Vincenzo Naso ◽  
Marian Cichy ◽  
Boleslaw Pleszewski
Keyword(s):  
Mass Flow Rate ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Flow Rate
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