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US 2016/0097552 A1Published application
Nuclear reactor control room habitability system
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorsJeff T. Dederer, James W. Winters, Todd Sutton
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Abstract
A cooling system for a nuclear plant main Control Room Habitability System that employs a vortex tube interposed between a compressed air supply and the control room. The relatively cold air output from the vortex tube is fed into the control room or the electrical equipment room while the relatively hot air exiting the vortex tube is exhausted to the atmosphere.
Claims9
A nuclear power plant equipment room passive cooling system comprising:
- a storage source of compressed gas sufficiently large enough to deliver compressed gas at a pressure of approximately between 100 and 120 psi for at least two days to the equipment room;
- at least one vortex tube having a gas inlet and a relatively cool gas outlet with the gas inlet in fluid communication with the storage source and the cool gas outlet in fluid communication with a nuclear plant equipment room;
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- a gas regulator between the storage source of compressed gas and the gas inlet, for regulating the gas flow to the gas inlet to approximately between 100 and 120 psi.
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