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Engineering: Nuclear Reactors
Homework #13

Author: Professor:
Lulu Li Mujid S. Kazimi

Nov. 4, 2011
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Lulu Li 22.312 Homework #13 Nov. 4, 2011

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1) Given Re = vD 0.184 L v
, f = Re0.2 , Pfriction = f D 2 = 200, 000, we basically have one equation with
one unkown (v). I am having mathematica to do this for me (see following), and get the maximum
allowed flow rate for two fluids are respectively:

m
1 = 0.35692 kg/s, m
2 = 0.450125 kg/s

Notice we guessed a f expression without knowing what Re are. To be on the safe side, I am going
0.184
to go back to double check them. For liquid sodium, Re 2.7 105 > 3 104 so using f = Re 0.2
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(Eq. 9-87) is a right choice. For liquid salt however, Re 2.9 10 < 3 10 , so we should update
our expression for f to be f = 0.316 Re0.25 . If we update our f expression and solve the exact
same equation above, we get a slightly smaller maximum allowed mass flow rate for the liquid salt to
be: m 2 = 0.4431 kg/s.

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Lulu Li 22.312 Homework #13 Nov. 4, 2011

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2) We use W mP

relation and get:

1 = 91.5 W, W
W 2 = 46.4 W

q0
3) For this problem, we use Eq. 8.100, together the expression h(Tv Tent ) = Di to solve for q. The
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answer comes out to be: q 1 = 9.4 kW/m, q 2 = 12.5 kW/m.
So the Mathematica sheet for details.
4) Liquid salt appears to be the better alternative compared with liquid sodium, because liquid salt allow
larger mass flow rate and larger linear power generation at the expanse of less required pumping power.