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- Title
Steam generation via explosive fragmentation of ice.
- Authors
Fateev, E.
- Abstract
The possibility of generating steam by means of the explosive fragmentation of ice, which takes place under the conditions of strong nonuniform compression, is considered. Water films with thicknesses of up to several microns can form during the mutual friction of ice grains and their quasi-liquid flow in a fragment generator. Depending on a pressure level in the generator, the total amount of water in these films can reach several hundred liters per cubic meter of ejected ice micro-and nanofragments. High-rate ejection of the ice-water mixture from the generator is accompanied by a jumplike drop in the pressure that can lead to boiling of the water film with the formation of a partly dissociated steam.
- Subjects
BEARINGS (Machinery); METRIC system; STEAM generating heavy water reactors; HEAVY water reactors; SOLID fuel reactors; NUCLEAR reactors
- Publication
Technical Physics Letters, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 5, p363
- ISSN
1063-7850
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1063785008050015