PERFORMANCE OF A TANK FILLED WITH DESUBLIMATED URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE AS A FUNCTION OF THE CONFIGURATION OF CENTRAL OPENINGS IN ITS RIBS

Numerical simulation has been performed for an unsteady-state process of uranium hexafl uoride desublimation in a vertical submersible tank with a volume of 6.0·10–2 m3 as a function of the confi guration of central openings in the horizontal ribs set up in the tank. It has been established that the tank has a minimum fi lling time and a maximum average performance equal to 4.8328 g/s at a diameter of the central opening of the 1st rib of 6.4·10–2 m and a diameter of the central opening of 4.4·10–2 m in the ribs from the 2nd to the 13th.
Numerical simulation has been performed for an unsteady-state process of uranium hexafl uoride desublimation in a vertical submersible tank with a volume of 6.0·10–2 m3 as a function of the confi guration of central openings in the horizontal ribs set up in the tank. It has been established that the tank has a minimum fi lling time and a maximum average performance equal to 4.8328 g/s at a diameter of the central opening of the 1st rib of 6.4·10–2 m and a diameter of the central opening of 4.4·10–2 m in the ribs from the 2nd to the 13th.
Author:  A. A. Orlov, R. V. Malyugin, I. A. Turbina
Keywords:  uranium hexafl uoride, desublimation, mathematical modeling, heat and mass transfer processes
Page:  1072