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Tatsumoto, Hideki; Aso, Tomokazu; Otsu, Kiichi; Uehara, Toshiaki; Sakurayama, Hisashi; Kawakami, Yoshihiko; Kato, Takashi; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Yoshinaga, Seiichiro*
Proceedings of International Cryogenic Engineering Conference 23 (ICEC-23) and International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2010 (ICMC 2010), p.377 - 382, 2010/07
A dynamic gas bearing centrifugal pump that circulated supercritical hydrogen with a large flow rate of more than 0.16 kg/s was developed to minimize the hydrogen density change at the moderator. The two pumps were simultaneously operated in parallel for redundancy. The performance test results indicated that the dimensionless characteristics for the single and the parallel operations existed on an identical curve. An outstanding peak adiabatic efficiency exited at the flow coefficient of 0.046, independently of the revolution. It was verified that the developed hydrogen pump satisfied the design requirement.
Aso, Tomokazu; Tatsumoto, Hideki; Otsu, Kiichi; Uehara, Toshiaki; Kawakami, Yoshihiko; Sakurayama, Hisashi; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Ushijima, Isamu*; Yoshinaga, Seiichiro*
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A centrifugal hydrogen pump that is a foil type self acting gas bearing had developed for the cryogenic hydrogen system in J-PARC, and the performance test was carried out in the system operation. The cryogenic hydrogen system plays a role in supplying supercritical hydrogen at a temperature of around 20 K and pressure of 1.5 MPa to three moderators and removing the nuclear heating of 3.8 kW at a proton beam of 1 MW from accelerators. In order to satisfy the neutronic performance, the temperature difference through the moderator should be reduced below 3 K. Therefore, cryogenic supercritical hydrogen should be circulated with the mass flow rate more than 160 g/s. We confirmed the characteristics of the pump satisfy the required performance.