Heat Pipe Applications in Fission Driven Nuclear Power Plants

1. Front Matter

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2. Why Nuclear Power Plant Energy

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   Pages 1-38

3. Small Modular Reactors and Innovative Efficient Enhancement Design

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   Pages 39-85

4. Design and Analysis of Core Design for Small Modular Reactors

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   Pages 87-116

5. Thermodynamic Cycles

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   Pages 117-151

6. Modeling the Nuclear Air Brayton Combined Cycle

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7. Basic Principles of Heat Pipes and History

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8. Direct Reactor Auxiliary Cooling System

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9. Application of Heat Pipes to Fissionable Nuclear Reactor

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10. Design Guide and Heat Pipe Selection

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11. Heat Pipe Manufacturing

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    Pages 309-343

12. Back Matter

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This book presents a new and innovative approach for the use of heat pipes and their application in a number of industrial scenarios, including space and nuclear power plants. The book opens by describing the heat pipe and its concept, including sizing, composition and binding energies. It contains mathematical models of high and low temperature pipes along with extensive design and manufacturing models, characteristics and testing programs. A detailed design and safety analysis concludes the book, emphasizing the importance of heat pipe implementation within the main cooling system and within the core of the reactor, making this book a useful resource for students, engineers, and researchers.

• Binding energies
• Heat transfer
• Thermal hydraulic
• Heat sink manufacturing
• Neutron diffusion
• Space reactors
• Nuclear reactors
• Fuel management
• Small modular reactors
• Fission product buildup

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Galaxy Advanced Engineering, Inc., Albuquerque, USA

  Bahman Zohuri

Dr. Bahman Zohuri presently hold a position as associate research professor at University of New Mexico, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is founder of Galaxy Advanced Engineering, Inc. a consulting company that he formed upon leaving the semiconductor and defense industries after many years as a Senior Process Engineer for corporations including Westinghouse and Intel, and then as Senior Chief Scientist at Lockheed Missile and Aerospace Corporation. During his time with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, he performed thermal hydraulic analysis and natural circulation for Inherent Shutdown Heat Removal System (ISHRS) in the core of a Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR). While at Lockheed, he was responsible for the study of vulnerability, survivability and component radiation and laser hardening for Defense Support Program (DSP), Boost Surveillance and Tracking Satellites (BSTS) and Space Surveillance and Tracking Satellites (SSTS). He also performed analysis of characteristics of laser beam and nuclear radiation interaction with materials, Transient Radiation Effects in Electronics (TREE), Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), System Generated Electromagnetic Pulse (SGEMP), Single-Event Upset (SEU), Blast and, Thermo-mechanical, hardness assurance, maintenance, and device technology. His consultancy clients have included Sandia National Laboratories, and he holds patents in areas such as the design of diffusion furnaces, and Laser Activated Radioactive Decay. He is the author of several books on heat transfer and directed energy weapons technologies.

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