Design Procedures for Underground Heat Sink Systems.

Abstract

This report presents criteria, engineering information and estimation procedures for the disposal of waste heat associated with the generation of power required to supply the needs of hardened defense underground installations. The major emphasis is placed on the temporary disposal of waste heat below ground while the installation is under attack and cannot rely upon aboveground disposal. A series of sample problems are included to illustrate the use of the estimation procedures presented in the report. All of the sample problems are based on the sizing of a heat sink system for an underground nuclear power plant. Under the design criteria which were assumed for the sample problems it is shown that the combination ice/water type heat sink concepts provide the most cost effective solutions. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA068926

Entities

People

  • John M. Stubstad
  • Marcus Greenberg
  • Mounir M. Botros
  • Walter C. Best
  • William F. Quinn

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aqueous Solutions
  • Civil Engineering
  • Construction
  • Explosives
  • Gases
  • Glaciers
  • Groundwater
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Fusion
  • Heat Transfer
  • Ice
  • Latent Heat
  • Mechanics
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermodynamics
  • Water Supplies

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Environmental Remediation and Restoration.