ANALYTICAL, NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE RISE OF TEMPERATURE

František Janíček - Justín Murín - Jaroslav Lelák - Zoltán Harsanyi

   The first part of this article deals with the computational analysis of the temperature rise of encased conductors of a nuclear power plant in the steady state. The generated heat is due to electric losses in different modes of loading. In the second part of this article the results of these computations (by analytical and finite element method) are compared with the results of an experiment performed on a one-phase model of an encased conductor. The obtained results are useful in assessing the safety of operation of conductors in the operating mode and of the possible critical states of the power plant.

Keywords: encased conductor, temperature rise, nuclear power plant, computation

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