Abstract
A high temperature design and creep-fatigue damage evaluation for a helical type sodium-to-air heat exchanger (AHX) in a 600MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) has been conducted. The AHX is a safety-grade component in a passive decay heat removal (DHR) system. Safe and reliable decay heat removal is one of the most important tasks in the successful design of a sodium-cooled fast reactor. Therefore, independent, diverse and redundant DHR systems incorporating both passive and active mechanisms have been employed in the demonstration SFR developed by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). One of the key DHR components is sodium-to-air heat exchanger, which has a helically coiled tube arrangements. A creep-fatigue damage evaluation has been performed according to the elevated temperature design codes of ASME Subsection NH and RCC-MRx based on a full 3D finite element analysis. The integrity of the heat exchangers under creep-fatigue loading was confirmed and code comparisons were made as well.
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