Design study and heat transfer analysis of a neutron converter target for medical radioisotope production

Behzad M.; Samec, K; Bak, SI; Kadi Y.; Tenreiro, C.; Hong, SW; Chai, JS

Abstract

A worldwide challenge in the near future will be to find a way of producing radioisotopes in sufficient quantity without relying on research reactors. The motivation for this innovative work on targets lies in the accelerator-based production of radioisotopes using a neutron converter target as in the transmutation by adiabatic resonance crossing concept. Thermal analysis of a multi-channel helium cooled device is performed with the computational fluid dynamics code CFX. Different boundary conditions are taken into account in the simulation process and many important parameters such as maximum allowable solid target temperature as well as uniform inlet velocity and outlet pressure changes in the channels are investigated. The results confirm that the cooling configuration works well; hence such a solid target could be operated safely and may be considered for a prototype target.

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Título según WOS: Design study and heat transfer analysis of a neutron converter target for medical radioisotope production
Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
Volumen: 299
Número: 2
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Página de inicio: 1001
Página final: 1006
Idioma: English
URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10967-013-2637-1
DOI:

10.1007/s10967-013-2637-1

Notas: ISI