XIE Haiyan, NIE Xin, LAI Jianyong, et al. Flow and heat transfer characteristics of helical coiled tubes in steam generator of liquid metal reactor[J]. Thermal power generation, 2025, 54(2): 109-117.
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XIE Haiyan, NIE Xin, LAI Jianyong, et al. Flow and heat transfer characteristics of helical coiled tubes in steam generator of liquid metal reactor[J]. Thermal power generation, 2025, 54(2): 109-117. DOI: 10.19666/j.rlfd.202407186.
Flow and heat transfer characteristics of helical coiled tubes in steam generator of liquid metal reactor
For helical coiled tube steam generator for liquid metal reactor
the working medium at the first side is liquid metal and that at the second side is water
and its thermal and hydraulic characteristics are significantly different from those of conventional pressurized water reactor natural circulation saturated steam generators. The helical coiled tube steam generator of liquid metal reactor is equivalent as flow network system and divided into flow circuits
pressure nodes
and other components. The mathematical model for calculating thermal hydraulic parameters such as pressure drop
flow rate and temperature
and mathematical model for calculating the metal wall temperature of tube bundles are established
based on the mass
momentum and energy conservations.Moreover
the profile of flow rate
pressure drop
working medium temperature
outlet steam temperature
wall temperature
vapor quality and heat transfer coefficient in helical coiled tubes are obtained through the direct solving of nonlinear equations composed of unknown flow rate and pressure nodes in the flow circuit. The flow and heat transfer characteristics of the helical coiled tubes in steam generator are obtained. Besides
one-dimensional system analysis and calculation programs are proposed other than RELAP5 and the thermal hydraulic calculation method of helical coiled tube steam generator has been improved.