A review of research progress of graphite oxidation in high temperature gas-cooled reactors

X Zhang, F Sun, G Xiong, W Xu, M Ding - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract (Very) High temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) are one of the 4th-
generation nuclear reactors with high inherent safety. They use graphite materials as …

Study on air ingress of the 200 MWe pebble-bed modular high temperature gas-cooled reactor

P Liu, Z Chen, Y Zheng, J Sun, F Chen, L Shi, F Li… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
Air ingress, one of the beyond design basis accidents (BDBA) for high temperature gas-
cooled reactors (HTR), receives high attention during the design of the 200 MWe pebble …

Transition from molecular diffusion to natural circulation mode air-ingress in high temperature helium loop

D Gould, D Franken, H Bindra, M Kawaji - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs) have significantly robust passive
heat removal capabilities owing largely to conduction and radiation heat transfer through …

Numerical study of air ingress transition to natural circulation in a high temperature helium loop

D Franken, D Gould, PK Jain, H Bindra - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The generation-IV high temperature gas cooled reactors (HTGRs) are designed with many
passive safety features, one of which is the ability to passively remove heat under a loss of …

Development of -MTV for low-speed flow and in-situ deployment to an integral effect test facility

MA André, RA Burns, PM Danehy, SR Cadell… - Experiments in …, 2018 - Springer
A molecular tagging velocity (MTV) technique is developed to non-intrusively measure
velocity in an integral effect test (IET) facility simulating a high-temperature helium-cooled …

A hybrid porous model for full reactor core scale CFD investigation of a prismatic HTGR

C Wang, Y Liu, X Sun, P Sabharwall - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3-D) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of a whole
nuclear reactor core is a great challenge due to the large geometric volume and complex …

Scaling and design analyses of a scaled-down, high-temperature test facility for experimental investigation of the initial stages of a VHTR air-ingress accident

DJ Arcilesi Jr, TK Ham, IH Kim, X Sun… - … Engineering and Design, 2015 - Elsevier
A critical event in the safety analysis of the very high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR)
is an air-ingress accident. This accident is initiated, in its worst case scenario, by a double …

Helium-air mixing in simulated reactor cavities of high temperature gas reactors

A Abubakar, M Davis, Z Ahmed, D Kalaga… - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The spatial and temporal variations in air and helium concentration and temperature fields in
simulated reactor cavities of High Temperature Gas Reactor (HTGR) were investigated …

Raman thermometry based thermal conductivity measurement of bovine cortical bone as a function of compressive stress

Y Zhang, M Gan, V Tomar - Journal of …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Biological materials such as bone have microstructure that incorporates a presence of a
significant number of interfaces in a hierarchical manner that lead to a unique combination …

Experiments and numerical analysis of a control method for natural circulation through helium gas injection

T Takeda, H Hatori, S Funatani - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated a control method for natural circulation of air by helium gas injection.
A depressurization accident is a design-basis accident of a very high temperature reactor …