Submersible sodium pump

Patent · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:867188

Brynsvold, Glen V ^[1]; Lopez, John T ^[2]; Olich, Eugene E ^[3]; West, Calvin W ^[4]

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1. San Jose, CA
2. Santa Clara, CA
3. Aptos, CA
4. Livermore, CA

An electromagnetic submerged pump has an outer cylindrical stator with an inner cylindrical conductive core for the submerged pumping of sodium in the cylindrical interstitial volume defined between the stator and core. The cylindrical interstitial volume is typically vertically oriented, and defines an inlet at the bottom and an outlet at the top. The outer stator generates upwardly conveyed toroidal magnetic fields, which fields convey preferably from the bottom of the pump to the top of the pump liquid sodium in the cold leg of a sodium cooled nuclear reactor. The outer cylindrical stator has a vertically disposed duct surrounded by alternately stacked layers of coil units and laminates.

• Research Organization: General Electric Co
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-85NE37937
• Assignee: General Electric Company (San Jose, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 4882514
• OSTI ID: 867188
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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