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Experimental And Computational Investigation Of Flow Of Pebbles In A Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor, Vaibhav B. Khane
Experimental And Computational Investigation Of Flow Of Pebbles In A Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor, Vaibhav B. Khane
Doctoral Dissertations
"The Pebble Bed Reactor (PBR) is a 4th generation nuclear reactor which is conceptually similar to moving bed reactors used in the chemical and petrochemical industries. In a PBR core, nuclear fuel in the form of pebbles moves slowly under the influence of gravity. Due to the dynamic nature of the core, a thorough understanding about slow and dense granular flow of pebbles is required from both a reactor safety and performance evaluation point of view.
In this dissertation, a new integrated experimental and computational study of granular flow in a PBR has been performed. Continuous pebble re-circulation experimental set-up, …