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Modeling of Passive Safety Thermosyphon Loops Cooling System for Nuclear Applications

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Abstract: Heat pipes are passive heat transfer devices, with very long lives. Material and testing reactors (MTR) have residual heat after shutdown. Also they have an auxiliary spent fuel tank that also have heat generated need to removed, also heat should be removed in case of emergency to keep fuel temperature within safe limit. A gravity assisted two-phase closed heat-pipe loop (GTPHL) with evaporator and condenser lengths each 100m helical coil shape with outer diameter 15 cm and 3 mm thickness as a passive cooling system for a nuclear spent fuel storage pool is used to remove this heat. This paper presents and proposes a completely passive cooling system using loop thermosyphon for cooling and dissipation the residual heat of wet spent fuel storage by running as main or alternative cooling system. The design is focus on heat removal from the auxiliary spent fuel tank of the research reactor to be in safe mode. The model considers natural convection by air for the condenser part of the heat-pipe loop to confine the residual heat. A numerical simulation using special design of gravity assisted two-Phase closed heat-pipe loops were used to investigate the (GTPHL) thermal performance. The effects of heat loads were analyzed. Demineralized water was used as the (GTPHL) working fluid. The atmospheric air was circulated around the condenser as a cooling system. The effect of heat input (25kW≤Q≤150kW) working fluid filling ratio (100%) The results show that the best thermal performance was obtained at high evaporator heat load.

DOI

10.21608/ajnsa.2019.3357.1075

Keywords

Keywords: Gravity assisted heat pipe, Passive Cooling System, Wet Spent Fuel Storage Heat Removal, Closed Two-Phase heat-pipe, Heat Pipe Simulation Model

Authors

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Mohamad

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Salem

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Department of Nuclear Safety research and Radiological emergencies – NCRRT center, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt

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bidosalem2@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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First Name

Hesham

Last Name

Elkhatib

MiddleName

Hasaneen

Affiliation

bNuclear reactors department, NRC Center, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority

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heskhatib1966@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Gaheen

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Abdelmoneam

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Department of Nuclear Safety research and Radiological emergencies – NCRRT center, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority

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magaheen@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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First Name

Said

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Zoalfakar

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Hussien

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The higher technological Institute

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said_hussien2005@yahoo.com

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Cairo

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52

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3

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6040

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2019-07-01

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2018-04-02

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2019-07-01

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25

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33

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1110-0451

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2090-4258

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Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

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22 Jan 2023