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Aalo Atomics discusses the road ahead
Yasir Arafat, president and chief technology officer of Aalo Atomics, participated in the first day of sessions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC). There, he recapped some of the company’s recent milestones and revealed new details on what lies ahead for Aalo.
His attendance at the event coincided with a number of announcements in the past two weeks. Those announcements covered new contracts with Global Nuclear Fuel and Baker Hughes, the release of a new strategic roadmap, the completion of fuel enrichment by Urenco USA, and a new approval from the Department of Energy.
O. E. Dwyer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 21 | Number 1 | January 1965 | Pages 79-89
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE65-A21017
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An analytical study has been made of the general problem of heat-transfer to liquid metals flowing between parallel plates. All the results are for the conditions of uniform heat fluxes and fully-established temperature and velocity profiles. Both unilateral and bilateral heat-transfer situations have been considered. In the former, three different methods of determining the velocity profiles were compared; and for each of these, three different types of profile curves for the eddy diffusivity of momentum, ∈M, were compared. The three different methods of determining the velocity profiles showed remarkably good agreement. In the case of bilateral heat transfer, the fraction of total heat transfer to the fluid from any one plate, ξ, was varied from zero to unity. It was found that the heat-transfer coefficient for any one plate is a sensitive function of ξ for that plate. Above ξ = 0.31, the coefficients are positive; below it, they are negative. At ξ = 0.31, the coefficient is infinite, because at this condition the difference between wall and bulk temperatures is zero. As ξ approaches 0.50, from either above or below, the shape of the εM profile in the vicinity of the center of the channel has less and less effect on the heat-transfer coefficient. When ξ = 0.50, the effect is negligible for all practical purposes. There are no adequate experimental data available with which to test the calculated Nusselt numbers, but indications are that the recommended relationships are reasonably correct.