#Industry News
Circulation Heaters in Nuclear Power
Many uses of Circulation Heaters
Situation
An advanced gas cooled nuclear energy consortium contacted Wattco to help them with their research and development team that required an industrial heater to heat up CO2 - carbon dioxide – gas that is used as a cooling agent with graphite- a neutron moderator - in their nuclear reactor. The nuclear reactor was developed for high gas temperatures for efficiency and additional testing was required to measure heat output as well as additional factors such as pressure drops and its relationship with elevated temperature within a stainless steel setting. Temperatures of 279 degrees C was to be reached for longer periods of time.