Heat and Fluid Flow Analysis in a Molten CuCl Heat Exchanger
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Abstract
The Cu-Cl thermochemical cycle is a promising method to generate hydrogen \nas a clean fuel for human use in the future. The cycle can be coupled to nuclear \nreactors to supply its heat requirements. The cycle generates hydrogen by splitting \nwater molecules through a series of chemical reactions. Thermal management within \nthe cycle is crucial for improving its thermal efficiency. The cycle has an average \ntheoretical efficiency of around 46% without any heat recovery. The efficiency may \nincrease up to 74%, if all heat associated with the products of the cycle???s steps is \nrecycled internally. The products of the different processes that transfer heat are; \noxygen, hydrogen, and molten CuCl. The heat carried by oxygen and hydrogen can be \nrecovered by the use of conventional heat exchangers. However, recovering heat from \nmolten CuCl is very challenging due to the phase transformations that molten CuCl \nundergoes, as it cools down from liquid to solid states. This thesis presents a new \nmodel that predicts the fluid flow and heat transfer in a direct contact heat exchanger, \ndesigned to recover the heat from molten CuCl, through the physical interaction \nbetween CuCl droplets and air. Numerical results for the variations of temperature, \nvelocity, heat transfer rate, and so forth, are given for two cases of CuCl flow. The \npredicted dimensions of the heat exchanger were found to be a diameter of 0.13 m, \nand a height of 0.6 and 0.8 m for 1 and 0.5 mm droplet diameters, respectively. The \nresults obtained provide valuable insights for the equipment design and scale-up of \nthe Cu-Cl cycle.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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