Compact buffer zone plate-fin IHX - The key component for high-temperature nuclear process heat realization with advanced MHR

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-32

  McDonald, Colin F ^a,b  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b McDonald Thermal Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact heat exchangers; Intermediate heat exchanger; Nuclear process heat; Plate fin exchanger

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; HELIUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; HYDROGEN; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATERIALS TESTING; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PRESSURE VESSELS; STEAM GENERATORS; TRITIUM;

COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGERS; INTERMEDIATE HEAT EXCHANGERS; MODULAR HELIUM REACTORS; NUCLEAR PROCESS HEAT; PLATE-FIN EXCHANGERS; THERMAL ENERGY;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 0029751387     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1359-4311(95)00016-7     Document Type: Review

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