Planned Heat-Exchanger Test Loop
Capabilities
- 500 kW heaters (elec.)
- 500 kW gas cooler
- Unbalanced flows
- Dedicated system accepts novel mixtures and additives
Facility Goal
- Provide testing capability for 1 MW-scale commercial and prototype heat exchangers used at any position in current and future Brayton layouts
Path Forward to Commercialization
What we are going to do
- The bow-of-the-ship approach for upcoming technical issues:
- Corrosion
- Performance
- Testing
This is how
- Heat-exchanger test loop
- Address technical issues
- Low-cost testing
- DOE cost share with industry for new heat exchanger concepts