Promising designs of compact heat exchangers for modular HTRs using the Brayton cycle

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3160-3173

  Pra, Franck ^a   Tochon, Patrice ^a   Mauget, Christian ^b   Fokkens, Jan ^c   Willemsen, Sander ^c  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP NRG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAYTON CYCLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; MOCKUPS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POWDERS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RECUPERATORS; SHOCK TESTING; SOLAR WATER HEATERS; STEAM ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL SHOCK;

BRAYTON; COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC; EUROPEAN; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE GAS COOLED REACTOR; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOURS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; PLATE FINS; POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES; PRECISE DESCRIPTION; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; STEAM CYCLES;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 53949092388     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.12.024     Document Type: Article

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