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Parametric study of natural circulation flow in Molten Salt fuel in Molten Salt Reactor

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dc.contributor.authorPauzi A.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCioncolini A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorIacovides H.en_US
dc.contributor.authorid55812611200en_US
dc.contributor.authorid12753591400en_US
dc.contributor.authorid7004880147en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-29T06:00:24Z
dc.date.available2023-05-29T06:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) is one of the most promising system proposed by Generation IV Forum (GIF) for future nuclear reactor systems. Advantages of the MSR are significantly larger compared to other reactor system, and is mainly achieved from its liquid nature of fuel and coolant. Further improvement to this system, which is a natural circulating molten fuel salt inside its tube in the reactor core is proposed, to achieve advantages of reducing and simplifying the MSR design proposed by GIF. Thermal hydraulic analysis on the proposed system was completed using a commercial computation fluid dynamics (CFD) software called FLUENT by ANSYS Inc. An understanding on theory behind this unique natural circulation flow inside the tube caused by fission heat generated in molten fuel salt and tube cooling was briefly introduced. Currently, no commercial CFD software could perfectly simulate natural circulation flow, hence, modeling this flow problem in FLUENT is introduced and analyzed to obtain best simulation results. Results obtained demonstrate the existence of periodical transient nature of flow problem, hence improvements in tube design is proposed based on the analysis on temperature and velocity profile. Results show that the proposed system could operate at up to 750MW core power, given that turbulence are enhanced throughout flow region, and precise molten fuel salt physical properties could be defined. � 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.en_US
dc.description.natureFinalen_US
dc.identifier.ArtNo30004
dc.identifier.doi10.1063/1.4916852
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84997286470
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dc.identifier.urihttps://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/22351
dc.identifier.volume1659
dc.publisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.en_US
dc.sourceScopus
dc.sourcetitleAIP Conference Proceedings
dc.titleParametric study of natural circulation flow in Molten Salt fuel in Molten Salt Reactoren_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
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