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Title: Pressure Measurements in a Wire-Wrapped 61-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle

Abstract

To achieve longer-life liquid-metal fast reactor cores, designers are considering to increase the wall gap of the wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel bundles to account for volumetric void swelling and radiation creep. A new wire-wrapped hexagonal test bundle has been constructed, with a wall gap larger than prior experiments, and experimental pressure drop data have been generated under laminar, transition, and turbulent flow regimes (corresponding to Re of 250–19,000), to complement the existing database of small wall gap experimental bundles. The comparison of the experimental data set with the predictions of four existing correlations (Baxi and Dalle Donne, Cheng and Todreas detailed (CTD), Kirillov, and Rehme) showed general agreement between data and the selected correlations. However, the CTD correlation most accurately predicted the experimental trend and the transition between flow regimes. The analysis of the experimental data also revealed that the larger wall gap size caused a lower bundle pressure drop due to the increased bypass flow area.

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  1. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
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Areva Federal Services LLC, Federal Way, WA (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1512275
Grant/Contract Number:  
NE0008321
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Fluids Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 140; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0098-2202
Publisher:
ASME
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING

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Vaghetto, Rodolfo, Jones, Philip, Goth, Nolan, Childs, Mason, Lee, Saye, Nguyen, Duy Thien, and Hassan, Yassin A. Pressure Measurements in a Wire-Wrapped 61-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1115/1.4038086.
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Vaghetto, Rodolfo, Jones, Philip, Goth, Nolan, Childs, Mason, Lee, Saye, Nguyen, Duy Thien, & Hassan, Yassin A. Pressure Measurements in a Wire-Wrapped 61-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle. United States. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4038086
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Vaghetto, Rodolfo, Jones, Philip, Goth, Nolan, Childs, Mason, Lee, Saye, Nguyen, Duy Thien, and Hassan, Yassin A. Wed . "Pressure Measurements in a Wire-Wrapped 61-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle". United States. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4038086. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1512275.
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@article{osti_1512275,
title = {Pressure Measurements in a Wire-Wrapped 61-Pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle},
author = {Vaghetto, Rodolfo and Jones, Philip and Goth, Nolan and Childs, Mason and Lee, Saye and Nguyen, Duy Thien and Hassan, Yassin A.},
abstractNote = {To achieve longer-life liquid-metal fast reactor cores, designers are considering to increase the wall gap of the wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel bundles to account for volumetric void swelling and radiation creep. A new wire-wrapped hexagonal test bundle has been constructed, with a wall gap larger than prior experiments, and experimental pressure drop data have been generated under laminar, transition, and turbulent flow regimes (corresponding to Re of 250–19,000), to complement the existing database of small wall gap experimental bundles. The comparison of the experimental data set with the predictions of four existing correlations (Baxi and Dalle Donne, Cheng and Todreas detailed (CTD), Kirillov, and Rehme) showed general agreement between data and the selected correlations. However, the CTD correlation most accurately predicted the experimental trend and the transition between flow regimes. The analysis of the experimental data also revealed that the larger wall gap size caused a lower bundle pressure drop due to the increased bypass flow area.},
doi = {10.1115/1.4038086},
journal = {Journal of Fluids Engineering},
number = 3,
volume = 140,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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Table 1 Table 1: Main features of existing and current wire-wrapped experimental bundles (dimensions in mm)
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