Research Article
A Concept of Online Refueling TRISO-Fueled and Salt-Cooled Reactor
Table 3
Coolant cooling capacity figures of merit (FOM).
| Coolant | Turbulent forced convection | Heat exchanger area | Turbulent natural convection | Laminar natural convection |
| Water | 0.20 | 13.0 | 4.8 | 0.63 | LiF-BeF2 (66-34) | 0.70 | 21.5 | 13.9 | 10.12 | NaF-BeF2 (57-43) | 1.98 | 37.4 | 14.7 | 7.90 | NaF-ZrF4 (57-43) | 0.91 | 25.2 | 16.5 | 13.45 |
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