Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup
The Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) breeding blanket is one of the two driver-blanket candidates for the European fusion demonstration power plant (EU DEMO) within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium. As the EU DEMO program is going, testing of mockups becomes increasingly important. In this...
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| author | Guangming Zhou Joerg Rey Francisco A. Hernández Ali Abou-Sena Martin Lux Frederik Arbeiter Georg Schlindwein Florian Schwab |
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| description | The Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) breeding blanket is one of the two driver-blanket candidates for the European fusion demonstration power plant (EU DEMO) within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium. As the EU DEMO program is going, testing of mockups becomes increasingly important. In this article, the engineering design of a first-ever breeder zone mockup of the EU DEMO HCPB breeding blanket is reported. The mockup will be tested in the high-pressure, high temperature, helium facility (HELOKA) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. This mockup will act as a test rig to validate heat transfer correlations, CFD software, and thermal hydraulics systems codes. As pressure equipment, the mockup shall conform to the latest European Union Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU. The design description, rationale and test matrix, and corresponding analyses are discussed and presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-39cb168042c54010a882508dcad4c6742023-11-16T18:50:35ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-02-01134208110.3390/app13042081Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone MockupGuangming Zhou0Joerg Rey1Francisco A. Hernández2Ali Abou-Sena3Martin Lux4Frederik Arbeiter5Georg Schlindwein6Florian Schwab7Institute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyInstitute for Neutron Physics and Reactor Technology (INR), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyThe Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) breeding blanket is one of the two driver-blanket candidates for the European fusion demonstration power plant (EU DEMO) within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium. As the EU DEMO program is going, testing of mockups becomes increasingly important. In this article, the engineering design of a first-ever breeder zone mockup of the EU DEMO HCPB breeding blanket is reported. The mockup will be tested in the high-pressure, high temperature, helium facility (HELOKA) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. This mockup will act as a test rig to validate heat transfer correlations, CFD software, and thermal hydraulics systems codes. As pressure equipment, the mockup shall conform to the latest European Union Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU. The design description, rationale and test matrix, and corresponding analyses are discussed and presented.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2081helium cooled pebble bedbreeding blanketmockupengineering design |
| spellingShingle | Guangming Zhou Joerg Rey Francisco A. Hernández Ali Abou-Sena Martin Lux Frederik Arbeiter Georg Schlindwein Florian Schwab Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup Applied Sciences helium cooled pebble bed breeding blanket mockup engineering design |
| title | Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup |
| title_full | Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup |
| title_fullStr | Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup |
| title_short | Engineering Design of the European DEMO HCPB Breeding Blanket Breeder Zone Mockup |
| title_sort | engineering design of the european demo hcpb breeding blanket breeder zone mockup |
| topic | helium cooled pebble bed breeding blanket mockup engineering design |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2081 |
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