Evolutionary design of reactor vessel assembly for liquid metal cooled battery |
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Authors: | Hyung Min SonKune Yull Suh |
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Affiliation: | a Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak Ro, Gwanak Gu, Seoul 151-744, Republic of Korea b PHILOSOPHIA, Inc., 599 Gwanak Ro, Gwanak Gu, Seoul 151-744, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | The Battery Omnibus Reactor Integral System (BORIS) is being developed as a multipurpose integral fast reactor at the Seoul National University. This paper focuses on developing design methodology for optimizing geometry of the liquid metal cooled reactor vessel assembly. The key design parameters and constraints are chosen considering technical specifications such as thermal limits and manufacturing difficulties. The evolution strategy is adopted in optimizing the geometry. Two objective functions are selected based upon economic and thermohydraulic reasons. Optimization is carried out in the following steps. First, selected design values are supplied to the momentum integral model code to evaluate steady-state mass flow rate and coolant temperature distribution of the reactor vessel assembly utilizing the thermodynamic boundary condition on heat exchanger calculated by the thermodynamics code. Second, the objective function values are calculated and compared against the previous results. The steps are repeated until an optimum value is obtained. Results of the improved design of the reactor vessel assembly are presented and their characteristics are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Battery-type reactor BORIS Liquid metal cooled reactor Numerical analysis Optimization |
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