Design of a Test Section for the Experimental Investigation of the WCLL Manifold Hydraulic Features

Aldo Collaku, Pietro Arena, Alessandro Del Nevo, Ranieri Marinari () and Laura Savoldi
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Aldo Collaku: MAHTEP Group, Dipartimento Energia “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Pietro Arena: Department of Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), 40032 Camugnano, Italy
Alessandro Del Nevo: Department of Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), 40032 Camugnano, Italy
Ranieri Marinari: Department of Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), 40032 Camugnano, Italy
Laura Savoldi: MAHTEP Group, Dipartimento Energia “Galileo Ferraris”, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: A scaled-down test section representative of an Outboard Segment manifold of the Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Breeding Blanket for the European DEMO has been designed for installation and test in a high- mass flow branch of the W-HYDRA facility, under construction at the premises of ENEA Brasimone Research Center. The test section should confirm the flow repartition recently computed in the different breeding units on the full-scale manifold, validating at the same time the computational tools used for the design and analysis. The detailed objectives and requirements of the test section, as well as the scaling rationale and procedure adopted for its design, are presented in the paper. The final design of the test section is discussed. The preliminary analyses of the developed design are also presented and show that it is compliant with the initial objectives.

Keywords: water technology for DEMO; experiments; WCLL; manifold; thermal hydraulics; CFD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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