Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility—Steam Cooling Test Series

摘要

The Pennsylvania State University/US NuclearrnRegulatory Commission Rod Bundle Heat transferrnFacility (RBHT) has been reconfigured to perform arnseries of steady-state rod bundle steam coolingrnexperiments. The objective of these experiments is tornobtain convective heat transfer data over a range ofrnReynolds numbers typical of Large-Break Loss ofrnCoolant (LBLOCA) accident conditions which canrnbe used as a basis for determining single phase spacerrngrid heat transfer effects. The experiments will alsornserve as a basis to evaluate future steam cooling withrndroplet injection dispersed flow film boilingrnexperiments.