Material selection issues for the steam generator in sodium-cooled fast reactors
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I am working on my graduation project, which involves designing a steam generator for a sodium-cooled fast reactor. In previous projects, the materials for heat exchangers were selected from GB150. This time, however, the grades for both the shell and the heat exchange tubes are not listed in GB150. I was wondering if there are other standards from which I can obtain information regarding yield strength and similar properties Also, when starting to calculate the heat transfer area, in traditional pressurized water reactors the purity of the water on the primary side was very high, so the fouling thermal resistance could be considered to be 0. Can we treat the fouling thermal resistance on the side containing liquid sodium in the steam generators of sodium-cooled fast reactors as 0 as well?
The AS ME standard is more detailed, with a wider range of material types.