Intensive cooling of the reactor wall model when using water soluble solutions

Abstract

The paper reports experimental results on the intensive (fast) cooling of 20 mm steel ball heated to 1000 K when immersing in different coolants in 0.003 m3 glass vessel: tap water, seawater with salt concentration y of about 18 g/l, water solution of NaCl with y~27 g/l. By using the high-speed video recording, we study heat and mass transfer on a surface of the heated ball during the cooling. Experiments allow us to conclude that the film boiling on a surface of the metallic ball is almost excluded when using water solutions of salt as coolants. As a result, a cooling time decreases by 2-4 s as compared to the tap water. In addition, when using water solutions of salt, the temperature balance between steel ball and coolant is reached during a minimum time versus the tap water and seawater.

Keywords

• heat temperature equipment
• rapid heat removal
• coolant fluid
• steel ball
• boiling regime
• phase transformations
• high-speed video recording