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Hash Hashemian: Visionary leadership
As Dr. Hashem M. “Hash” Hashemian prepares to step into his term as President of the American Nuclear Society, he is clear that he wants to make the most of this unique moment.
A groundswell in public approval of nuclear is finding a home in growing governmental support that is backed by a tailwind of technological innovation. “Now is a good time to be in nuclear,” Hashemian said, as he explained the criticality of this moment and what he hoped to accomplish as president.
Kio Takai, Yoshiki Indou, Kazuhisa Yuki, Koichi Suzuki, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 4 | November 2017 | Pages 699-704
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1352430
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This study evaluates convective and boiling heat transfer characteristics of a water impinging jet flow in porous media in order to remove the heat flux of 10 MW/m2 imposed to fusion divertors. The metal porous media with complicated microchannels have large heat transfer surface due to fin effect and superior mixing effect of fluid, which enhances not only the convective heat transfer but also the boiling heat transfer by improving the evaporation rate of the cooling liquid. In a proposed heat removal device called EVAPORON-3-Type3, the cooling water is supplied as an impinging jet flow into the porous medium, which is a two-layered copper particle bed, and the generated vapor is discharged through high porosity gaps on the heat transfer surface. As a result, the convective heat transfer coefficient is improved by 1.6 times compared with that of an impinging jet flow without the copper particle bed. In the boiling heat transfer regime, the critical heat flux is increased by 1.5 times and the heat flux of 8.4 MW/m2 is achieved under low velocity and highly subcooled conditions though it’s not maximum.