A review of pebble flow study for pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor

S Jiang, J Tu, X Yang, N Gui - Experimental and Computational …, 2019 - Springer
The pebble bed high temperature gas-cooled reactor is a promising generation-IV reactor,
which uses large fuel pebbles and helium gas as coolant. The pebble bed flow is a …

Numerical study of pebble recirculation in a two-dimensional pebble bed of stationary atmosphere using LB-IB-DEM coupled method

N Gui, Z Li, Z Zhang, X Yang, J Tu, S Jiang - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The pebble bed is one type of the core of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR),
which is regarded as the candidate of the generation IV advanced reactor. It is important to …

Kr-85m activity as burnup measurement indicator in a pebble bed reactor based on ORIGEN2. 1 Computer Simulation

I Husnayani, PM Udiyani, S Bakhri… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Pebble Bed Reactor (PBR) is a high temperature gas-cooled reactor which employs
graphite as a moderator and helium as a coolant. In a multi-pass PBR, burnup of the fuel …

A Review on Pneumatic Transportation in The Design of Fuel Handling System in RDE-HTGR

K Widiyati, S Dibyo - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A stable and reliable pneumatic transportation plays an important role in the operation of a
pebble bed HTGR. The challenge in pneumatic transportation system is it produce side …

RESEARCH ON THE FLOW DRAG CHARACTERISTICS OF SPHERICAL FUEL ELEMENT IN A CYLINDRICAL PIPE

Y Mu, Q Yang, B Wu, F Zhao - The Proceedings of the International …, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
This study examines the drag force on the spherical fuel element in the vertical pipe of the
fuel handling and storage system for HTRs. The flowing media in this study are highpressure …

Design Criteria of Instrumentation and Control in Fuel Handling System of RDE

DF Atmoko, A Suntoro - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Experimental Power Reactor (RDE) is built based on HTGR technology with
pebble fuel. The fuel handling system in the RDE is one of the major installations for the …

Design and simulation of the automatic high temperature gas-cooled reactor fuel handling using programmable logic controller

S Bakhri, S Sutrisno, SL Dinata, S Dibyo… - AIP Conference …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
One of the vital components for the pebble reactor is the fuel handling system which was
employed to load, recirculate and discharge the depleted fuel during the operation of …

Theoritical approach of pneumatic transportation for fuel pebbles in experimental power reactor development

K Widiyati, S Dibyo - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors (HTGR) have many advantages such as inherent
safety feature and high efficiency. National Nuclear Agency of Indonesia (BATAN) is …