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Visualization on the behavior of inert gas jets impinging on a single glass tube submerged in liquid sodium

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Title: Visualization on the behavior of inert gas jets impinging on a single glass tube submerged in liquid sodium
Authors: Kudoh, Hideyuki Browse this author
Sugiyama, Ken-ichiro Browse this author
Narabayashi, Tadashi Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Ohshima, Hiroyuki Browse this author
Kurihara, Akikazu Browse this author
Keywords: liquid sodium
submerged gas jet
visualization
droplet size distribution
mean droplet diameter
sodium-water reaction
fast breeder reactor
Issue Date: 21-Dec-2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Journal Title: Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
Volume: 50
Issue: 1
Start Page: 72
End Page: 79
Publisher DOI: 10.1080/00223131.2013.750063
Abstract: In order to accurately model sodium-water reaction jets in steam generators of fast breeder reactors, knowledge of size distributions or mean diameters of liquid sodium droplets entrained into the reaction jets are prerequisite. In the present study, argon-gas jet behaviors, without chemical reaction, injected into liquid sodium were successfully visualized using an endoscope and a glass tube, and the size distributions and mean diameters of liquid sodium droplets entrained into the gas jet were also obtained in the bubbling regime. Most of the liquid sodium droplets were observed to be intermittently produced in the vicinity of a gas nozzle in the present study. The droplet size distributions of entrained sodium droplets were found to agree well with the Nukiyama-Tanasawa distribution function when the arithmetic mean diameter was used. The Sauter mean diameters obtained in the present study were also found to be well correlated with an empirical equation proposed by Epstein et al. The present study shows that the existing knowledge, which is based on the results of water experiments, is suitable in terms of accuracy in practice.
Rights: This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Volume 50, Issue 1, 2013, pages 72-79, ©2013 Atomic Energy Society of Japan, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00223131.2013.750063.
Type: article (author version)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/54028
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