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Numerical analysis of mass transfer with graphite oxidation in a laminar flow of multi-component gas mixture through a circular tube

Abstract

In the present paper, mass transfer has been numerically studied in a laminar flow through a circular graphite tube to evaluate graphite corrosion rate and generation rate of carbon monoxide during a pipe rupture accident in a high temperature gas cooled reactor. In the analysis, heterogeneous (graphite oxidation and graphite/carbon dioxide reaction) and homogeneous (carbon monoxide combustion) chemical reactions were dealt in the multi-component gas mixture; helium, oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Multi-component diffusion coefficients were used in a diffusion term. Mass conservation equations of each gas component, mass conservation equation and momentum conservation equations of the gas mixture were solved by using SIMPLE algorism. Chemical reactions between graphite and oxygen, graphite and carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide combustion were taken into account in the present numerical analysis. An energy equation for the gas mixture was not solved and temperature was held to be constant in order to understand basic mass transfer characteristics without heat transfer. But, an energy conservation equation for single component gas was added to know heat transfer characteristics without mass transfer. The effects of these chemical reactions on the mass transfer coefficients were quantitatively and qualitatively clarified in the range of 50 to 1000 of  More>>
Authors:
Ogawa, Masuro [1] 
  1. Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Tokai Research Establishment
Publication Date:
Oct 01, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
JAERI-M-92-139
Reference Number:
SCA: 210300; PA: JPN-93:002255; SN: 93000952451
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Oct 1992
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; GAS FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; GRAPHITE; OXIDATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; LAMINAR FLOW; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPUTER CODES; 210300; POWER REACTORS, NONBREEDING, GRAPHITE MODERATED
OSTI ID:
10130397
Research Organizations:
Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokyo (Japan)
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE93771419; TRN: JP9302255
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS; INIS
Submitting Site:
JPN
Size:
140 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 04, 2005

Citation Formats

Ogawa, Masuro. Numerical analysis of mass transfer with graphite oxidation in a laminar flow of multi-component gas mixture through a circular tube. Japan: N. p., 1992. Web.
Ogawa, Masuro. Numerical analysis of mass transfer with graphite oxidation in a laminar flow of multi-component gas mixture through a circular tube. Japan.
Ogawa, Masuro. 1992. "Numerical analysis of mass transfer with graphite oxidation in a laminar flow of multi-component gas mixture through a circular tube." Japan.
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title = {Numerical analysis of mass transfer with graphite oxidation in a laminar flow of multi-component gas mixture through a circular tube}
author = {Ogawa, Masuro}
abstractNote = {In the present paper, mass transfer has been numerically studied in a laminar flow through a circular graphite tube to evaluate graphite corrosion rate and generation rate of carbon monoxide during a pipe rupture accident in a high temperature gas cooled reactor. In the analysis, heterogeneous (graphite oxidation and graphite/carbon dioxide reaction) and homogeneous (carbon monoxide combustion) chemical reactions were dealt in the multi-component gas mixture; helium, oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Multi-component diffusion coefficients were used in a diffusion term. Mass conservation equations of each gas component, mass conservation equation and momentum conservation equations of the gas mixture were solved by using SIMPLE algorism. Chemical reactions between graphite and oxygen, graphite and carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide combustion were taken into account in the present numerical analysis. An energy equation for the gas mixture was not solved and temperature was held to be constant in order to understand basic mass transfer characteristics without heat transfer. But, an energy conservation equation for single component gas was added to know heat transfer characteristics without mass transfer. The effects of these chemical reactions on the mass transfer coefficients were quantitatively and qualitatively clarified in the range of 50 to 1000 of inlet Reynolds numbers, 0 to 0.5 of inlet oxygen mass fraction and 800 to 1600degC of temperature. (author).}
place = {Japan}
year = {1992}
month = {Oct}
}