Engineering Report on the Design of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Forced Convection Alkali Metal Vaporization Condensation Heat Transfer Rig (open access)

Engineering Report on the Design of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Forced Convection Alkali Metal Vaporization Condensation Heat Transfer Rig

Summary. A test rig has been designed to obtain basic two phase forced convection liquid metal heat transfer and pressure drop data for use in the design of liquid metal boilers. This engineering report includes background of the boiling problem, partial summary of work done by other investigators, the object, scope, engineering, and operations of this test rig, and a summary of reproducibility tests conducted in a water back-up rig.
Date: January 18, 1963
Creator: Bernstein, E.
System: The UNT Digital Library