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Flow boiling in straight heated tubes under microgravity conditions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Boiling two-phase flow can transfer large heat fluxes with small driving temperature differences, which is of great interest for the design of high-performance thermal management systems applied to space platforms and on-board electronics cooling in ...
Colin, Catherine   +2 more
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Effective fuel temperature of wwer-1000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The main temperature characteristics of a pressurized water reactor are distinguished, supporting its safety and reliable operation. The special role of the uranium fuel effective temperature is emphasized and the accuracy of the analytical determination
Gómez Rivas, J.   +3 more
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Investigation of Thermo-Hydraulic Performances of Artificial Ribs Mounted in a Rectangular Duct

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
This research investigates the fluid flow characterization and thermohydraulic performances (THP) of rib surfaces, using computational and experimental methods.
B. Varun Kumar   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance analysis of absorber tube in parabolic trough solar collector inserted with semi-annular and fin shape metal foam hybrid structure

open access: yesCase Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021
The objective of present study is to investigate the effect of a novel type of insertion, i.e. semi-annular and fin shape metal foam (SAFM) hybrid structure on thermohydraulic and thermodynamic performance of absorber tube in parabolic trough collector ...
Hao Peng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of oxide films on primary water stress corrosion cracking initiation of alloy 600 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the present study alloy 600 was tested in simulated pressurised water reactor (PWR) primary water, at 360 °C, under an hydrogen partial pressure of 30 kPa. These testing conditions correspond to the maximum sensitivity of alloy 600 to crack initiation.
Andrieu, Eric   +5 more
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Heat transfer characterization of a new collector design featuring ribs, petals, and helical twisted tapes: Experimental study

open access: yesCase Studies in Thermal Engineering
The limited thermal efficiency of collectors in photovoltaic thermal systems continues to pose a major hurdle. This study tackles the issue by developing an innovative collector featuring a rib and petal arrangement, combined with a helical twisted tape ...
Banw Omer Ahmed   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experimental studies on heat transfer augmentation using twisted aluminium taper clips and twisted tapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Heat exchangers have several industrial and engineering applications. The design procedure of heat exchangers is quite complicated, as it needs exact analysis of heat transfer rate and pressure drop estimations apart from issues such as long-term ...
Mohapatra, Vivek Chandan, Sahu, Debashis
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Design, construction and evaluation of solar flat-plate collector simulator based on the thermohydraulic coefficient [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Machinery, 2017
Introduction Increasing the area of absorber plate between the flowed air through the duct can be accomplished by corrugating the absorber plate or by using the artificial roughness underside of the absorber plate as the commercial methods for enhancing ...
H Rahmati Aidinlou, A. M Nikbakht
doaj   +1 more source

Scaling analysis of the pressure suppression containment test facility for the small pressurized water reactor

open access: yesNuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021
The small PWR has been paid more and more attention due to its diversity of application and flexibility in the site selection. However, the large core power density, the small containment space and the rapid accident progress characteristics make it ...
Xinxing Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The design of a sodium steam generator solid model for the simulation of thermohydraulic processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The peculiarities of the sodium-heated steam generators are presented. The importance of the thermohydraulic simulation for the optimization of the steam generators operating modes is shown. Described is the design of a steam superheater unit solid model
Klimova, V. A.   +7 more
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