Operation Data from the UW Natural Circulation FLiBe Flow Loop

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OSTI ID:1495056

Britsch, Karl Robert  ^[1]; Doniger, William ^[1]; Anderson, Mark ^[1]; Sridharan, Kumar ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
2. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Operating measurements from three multi-week test campaigns of the natural circulation FLiBe loop. This system is investigating thermal hydraulic behavior of the molten salt BeF_2 -LiF (33 - 67 mol %). The system behaves in a stable fashion, but shows unusual local transients, such as flow break-down in the riser and thermal jumps at the cooler exit. Heat transfer shows promising trends that FLiBe will behave as a normal heat transfer fluid, as long as salt purity can be maintained. The most recent test shows heat transfer degradation that is likely a result of oxides and impurities. The data archive contains as-built dimensions, Matlab analysis codes, and the raw data files.

• Research Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• Contributing Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley, University of New Mexico
• DOE Contract Number: NE0008285; AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1495056
• Resource Relation: Related Information: K. R. Britsch, M. H. Anderson, P. Brooks, and K. Sridharan, “Natural circulation FLiBe loop overview,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., vol. 134, no. C, pp. 970–983, May 2019.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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Molten salt
Flibe
Flow loop
Natural circulation
Heat transfer