PELLET SINTERING PLANT CONTAINING A TRANSPORT CHANNEL Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC G21C3/62 

FIELD: nuclear energy.

SUBSTANCE: equipment for sintering fuel pellets, intended to confirm the parameters and design solutions adopted in the development of the technical design of the plant. The pellet sintering plant consists of a transport channel, includes modules for loading 1 and unloading 4 carts with boats filled with pellets, a sintering oven 2, a refrigerator 3 and a gas cleaning unit 6. The transport channel for moving the pellets is formed by the internal chambers of the loading module 1, the unloading module 4, the refrigerator 3 and the internal channel of the sintering furnace 2, made in the form of a retort, articulated into a single whole. The loading module 1 is separated from the sintering pellet furnace 2 by a gate 8 with a gas barrier. Gates 9, 10, 11 of similar design are installed between the refrigerator 3 and the unloading module 4, as well as at the inlet to the loading module 1 and the exit from the unloading module 4, respectively.

EFFECT: increasing the reliability of operation of the main design solutions of the plant with the provision of a given performance of the working cycle.

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