An Equation of State for Sodium

Abstract

The equation of state (EOS) for sodium which has been employed in assessments of hypothetical accidents in liquid metal cooled fast breeder nuclear reactors has been in use for some years in the British programme. During this time some important experimental reference data, upon which the EOS is based, have been revised. The purpose of this report is primarily to update the sodium EOS by incorporating these revised data. In addition, a number of improvements have been made in the calculational technique used in deriving properties in the single phase. These refinements, which have indicated numerical errors in the earlier EOS output, have improved the precision of the reported data.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA106113

Entities

People

  • P. Browning

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Chemistry
  • Coefficients
  • Critical Temperature
  • Energy
  • Enthalpy
  • Equations
  • Gruneisen Parameter
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Isotherms
  • Low Temperature
  • Precision
  • Specific Heat
  • Specific Volume
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thermodynamic Properties

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design