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This information can be used to obtain information on liquid equilibria, which is useful in many thermodynamic calculations, such as chemical reactor design, and distillation calculations. The UNIFAC model was first published in 1975 by Fredenslund, Jones and John Prausnitz , a group of chemical engineering researchers from the University of ...
Attainable region (AR) theory is a branch of chemical engineering, specifically chemical reaction engineering, that uses geometric and mathematical optimization concepts to assist in the design of networks of chemical reactors. AR theory is a method to help define the best reactor flowsheet using graphical techniques for a desired duty or ...
RELAP5-3D is an outgrowth of the one-dimensional RELAP5/MOD3 code developed at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began sponsoring additional RELAP5 development in the early 1980s to meet its own reactor safety assessment needs.
DRAGON 3.05D, Reactor Cell Calculation System with Burnup nesc0784 DSNP, Program and Data Library System for Dynamic Simulation of Nuclear Power Plant nea-1683 ERANOS 2.3N, Modular code and data system for fast reactor neutronics analyses nea-1916 FINPSA TRAINING 2.2.0.1 -R-, a PSA model in consisting of event trees, fault trees, and cut sets
Future work focuses on optimizing the basic design and performing coupled 3D calculations, like thermohydraulics, fuel performance, and neutronics to determine detailed behavior and operation. [ 13 ] As of 2010, there has also been a growing interest in mobile floating nuclear power plants, considered to be nuclear microreactors.
A real plug flow reactor has a residence time distribution that is a narrow pulse around the mean residence time distribution. A typical plug flow reactor could be a tube packed with some solid material (frequently a catalyst). Typically these types of reactors are called packed bed reactors or PBR's.
Net reactivity in a reactor depends on several factors, one of which is the void coefficient. Reactors in which either the moderator or the coolant is a liquid will typically have a void coefficient which is either negative (if the reactor is under-moderated) or positive (if the reactor is over-moderated).
Some reactor poisons are deliberately inserted into fission reactor cores to control the reaction; boron or cadmium control rods are the best example. Many reactor poisons are produced by the fission process itself, and buildup of neutron-absorbing fission products affects both the fuel economics and the controllability of nuclear reactors.