Pulsatile fluidic pump demonstration and predictive model application

Safe pumping of hazardous liquids—A survey of no-moving-part pump principles

“…This was soon thereafter imitated by others active in nuclear engineering, in particular in ORNL -Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in the U.S.A. In later years of the low ebb of interest in nuclear energy, the ONRL results (e.g., [27][28][29][30]) were declassified and even internal research reports (like, e.g., [27]) became available on the Internet. They were mostly concerned with the simplest of the fluidic pumps designed by Tippetts [25], with the single RFD as shown in Fig.…”

“…23. It may be this availability of data in [27][28][29][30] which, in spite of inevitably low performance of this single-phase design, caused it being in the focus of recent re-newed interest [31,32].…”

Pump for extremely dangerous liquids

“…2, and based his designs on it. In particular, he introduced new fluidic device called reverse flow diverter (RFD) for the use in the rectifier - Smith and Lewis (1987), Morgan and Holland (1986), Gao et al (2001). As before, however, efficiency of his pumps was a secondary factor compared with their unique properties of absolute reliability and maintenance-free operation.…”

Dimensionless performance and characteristic numbers of reverse flow diverters during reverse flow mode

“…The RFD pumps have been proven successful and extremely useful for transferring hazardous liquids in nuclear‐spent fuel‐reprocessing plants in Britain during past decades . Owing to the advantages of RFD pumps, in the 1980s and 1990s, the USA began using RFD pumps from Britain in radioactive waste disposal sites .…”