ePrints@IIScePrints@IISc Home | About | Browse | Latest Additions | Advanced Search | Contact | Help

Fluid flow and heat transfer analysis in a calandria based reactor for different fuel channel configurations

Kulkarni, PS and Rajan, NKS and Suneel, MP and Joshi, V (2018) Fluid flow and heat transfer analysis in a calandria based reactor for different fuel channel configurations. In: 10th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD 2018, 9-13 July 2018, Hilton Barcelona Barcelona; Spain.

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

Continuous heat removal from the fuel channels in the calendria based reactor is important to avoid any hazardous aftermath. The primary objective of present study is to analyze heat removal capacity of calendria for four different fuel channel configuration. As a design optimization point of view there will be many design parameters need to optimize, in the former analysis, it was observed that the mass flow rate and inlet orientation have a significant effect on the convective heat transfer from the fuel channels to the moderator. The combination of mass flow rate and the inlet angle leading to lowest maximum temperatures inside the calendria was found to cause the underutilization of the calendria. Hence the latter part of the analysis has been carried out in the direction of improving the efficiency of the calendria by splitting the mass of flow near the inlet. In the present paper, the discussion has been done on heat removal capacity of calendria based reactor for inline and staggered fuel channel configurations. The numerical study shows that square pitch 900 inline arry configuration is better as compared to other considered configurations. © ICCFD 2018.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publication: 10th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD 2018 - Proceedings
Publisher: International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics 2018
Additional Information: The copyright of this article belongs to International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics 2018
Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics; Fuels; Heat convection; Mass transfer, Convective heat transfer; Design optimization; Design parameters; Fluid flow and heat transfers; Heat removal capacity; Mass flow rate; Maximum temperature; Primary objective, Flow of fluids
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2021 05:55
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2021 05:55
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/66718

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item