STEAM SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT, JUNE-SEPTEMBER 1962

Technical Report · Wed Oct 10 04:00:00 EDT 1962

OSTI ID:4756823

The air-water facility which will be used to develop downcomer, upcomer, and cross-over type separators and to investigate carryunder in a natural circulation system without mechanical separators was put into operation earlier than anticipated. A series of tests were performed to provide information to be used in the detail design of experimerts to be performed in the air-water tank. The centrifugal separator development program is now in progress in the loop. A program was undertaken to correlate air-water and steam-water experiments. To obtain airwater void fraction data to compare with steara-water void fraction data from a previous program, a small auxiliary test apparatus was constructed and operated. These data were correlated and an equation was developed to permit the prediction of the void fraction in a bubbling two-phase mixture as a function of certain basic parameters. The comparison of experimental values with calculated values indicates the correlation is reasonably accurate. (auth)

• Research Organization: Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Atomic Energy Div., Milwaukee
• NSA Number: NSA-17-003063
• OSTI ID: 4756823
• Report Number(s): ACNP-62021; EURAEC-453
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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