Precipitation profile and dryout concentration of sea-water pool-boiling in 5 × 5 bundle geometry
| Autor: | Kenetsu Shirakawa, Masahiro Furuya, Hiroki Takiguchi, Riichiro Okawa, Takahiro Arai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Materials science Nuclear fuel Precipitation (chemistry) 020209 energy Mechanical Engineering Neutron poison Mineralogy 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas Nuclear Energy and Engineering Heat flux Nuclear reactor core Boiling 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering General Materials Science Seawater Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Waste Management and Disposal Reactor pressure vessel |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Engineering and Design. 341:38-45 |
| ISSN: | 0029-5493 |
| Popis: | As an accident management procedure of light water (nuclear) reactors which are situated along sea shore, sea water will be injected into the reactor pressure vessel to flood the nuclear fuel which is heated by residual heat. Another salt water is borated water, which will be injected into the reactor core as a neutron absorber to avoid recriticality. Precipitation behavior of such salt water including these mixtures is a key to gain the confidence of accident strategy to cool down the reactor core during accidental conditions. Pool boiling experiments were conducted with a simulated 5 × 5 fuel-rod bundle with condensed (two and half times denser) sea water and a mixture solution of sea water and borated water. Three-dimensional salt-precipitation distributions in the rod bundles were quantified with X-ray CT system. For both solutions, salt precipitated downstream and close to the top of active fuel (TAF) height where the void fraction is the highest. The condensed sea water yields wider precipitation region in height direction than mixture solution does. Mixture solution may give localized precipitates at the same height, which is just below TAF and uniformly spread on the horizontal plane. For both solutions, dryout concentration is larger as collapsed solution level is higher. This is because that lower collapsed solution level gives longer boiling-length and higher void-fraction, which results in larger amount of salt precipitations. The proposed salt concentration is useful to evaluate dryout concentration, which is the almost constant salt concentration for heat flux levels within the experimental ranges. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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