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Investigation on Heat Transfer Behaviour of Molten Salt Natural Circulation Loop using Numerical Simulations

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Jayaraj Yallappa Kudariyawar, Abhijeet Mohan Vaidya, Naresh Kumar Maheshwari, Polepalle Satyamurthy, Abhishek Kumar Srivatsav, Babalu Mohan Lingade

Molten salts are used as a coolant/heat transfer fluid in various high temperature engineering systems owing to their high boiling point at low pressure. Natural circulation of molten salt is being preferred in some systems like solar thermal power plant or in some nuclear reactors. Such systems can be studied with the help of a natural circulation loop. In this work, heat transfer characteristics of Molten Salt Natural Circulation Loop (MSNCL) are studied using 3D CFD simulations. Molten Nitrate salt, NaNO3+KNO3 (60:40 ratio by weight), is used as a fluid in MSNCL. In the MSNCL, in heater section, flow is developing and also mixed convection flow regime exists. The local Nusselt number variation in heater is calculated from computed data and is compared wit... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9809.1000165

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