Abstract
The study focuses on tritium-extraction and heat-extraction characteristics of the lead lithium ceramic breeder (LLCB) blanket module, an Indian tritium breeding blanket concept design in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The present study focuses on the mass transfer phenomenon and entropy generation minimization (EGM)-based heat transfer analysis of the packed bed of a fusion reactor considering tritium isotopes in helium gas. For temperature-dependent convection-diffusion of tritium in helium gas and its permeation through the solid structure, a multi-region model in OpenFOAM using the locally varying porous medium approach is developed for studying the coupled multi-physics phenomena. For heat extraction behavior, a parametric study-based analysis is done using the EGM approach that involves irreversibility due to heat transfer, mass transfer, viscous, porosity effect, and heat generation rates. It is found that a lower Reynolds number (Re), and higher non-dimensional heat generation number (β), and non-dimensional species generation number (ϛ) result in a higher tritium extraction. In contrast, due to minimum total entropy generation, higher Re, and lower β and ϛ are preferred. Random packing arrangement as compared to BCC and FCC arrangements gives better tritium extraction and uniformity. However, the FCC arrangement is found as a better choice based on entropy minimization. Diagonally-opposite as compared to same-side inlet-outlet configuration extracts tritium more effectively and also found to be a better configuration from the EGM approach. The present work is significant since, for the breeder blanket, it presents the implementation of Sievert law boundary conditions and the EGM model for the first time in the literature.
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