Investigation of high-temperature printed circuit heat exchangers for very high temperature reactors

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Mylavarapu, Sai ^a   Sun, Xiaodong ^a   Figley, Justin ^a   Needler, Noah ^a   Christensen, Richard ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloy 617; Compact heat exchanger; Diffusion bonding; Heat exchanger modeling; High temperature materials; PCHE; Photochemical machining

Indexed keywords

COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT EXCHANGER MODELING; HIGH-TEMPERATURE MATERIALS; PCHE; PHOTOCHEMICAL MACHINING;

ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; DIFFUSION BONDING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; HELIUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; MACHINING; PRINTED CIRCUITS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 77955316697     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3098425     Document Type: Article

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