Open AccessShell and Tube Heat Exchanger – the Heat Transfer Area Design Process
Author(s) -
Štefan Gužela,
František Dzianik,
Martin Juriga,
Juraj Kabát
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
strojnícky časopis/journal of mechanical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2450-5471
pISSN - 0039-2472
DOI - 10.1515/scjme-2017-0014
Subject(s) - nuclear engineering , shell and tube heat exchanger , heat exchanger , heat transfer , tube (container) , plate fin heat exchanger , plate heat exchanger , materials science , mechanical engineering , engineering , mechanics , physics
Nowadays, the operating nuclear reactors are able to utilise only 1 % of mined out uranium. An effective exploitation of uranium, even 60 %, is possible to achieve in so-called fast reactors. These reactors commercial operation is expected after the year 2035. Several design configurations of these reactors exist. Fast reactors rank among the so-called Generation IV reactors. Helium-cooled reactor, as a gas-cooled fast reactor, is one of them. Exchangers used to a heat transfer from a reactor active zone (i.e. heat exchangers) are an important part of fast reactors. This paper deals with the design calculation of U-tube heat exchanger (precisely 1-2 shell and tube heat exchanger with U-tubes): water – helium