Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors

In the design of novel nuclear reactors active systems are replaced by passive ones in order to reduce the risk of failure. For that reason natural circulation is being considered as the primary cooling mechanism in next generation nuclear reactor designs such as the natural circulation boiling wate...

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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-365802023-11-11T05:22:47Z Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors Marce, Christian Pablo In the design of novel nuclear reactors active systems are replaced by passive ones in order to reduce the risk of failure. For that reason natural circulation is being considered as the primary cooling mechanism in next generation nuclear reactor designs such as the natural circulation boiling water reactor (BWR). In such a reactor, however, the flow is not a controlled parameter but is dependent on the power. As a result, the dynamical behavior significantly differs from that in conventional forced circulation BWRs. For that reason, predicting the stability characteristics of these reactors has to be carefully studied. In this work, a number of open issues are investigated regarding the stability of natural circulation BWRs (e.g. margins to instabilities at rated conditions, interaction between the thermal‐hydraulics and the neutronics, and the occurrence of flashing induced instabilities) with a strong emphasis on experimental evidence. The prototypical Economical Simplified BWR (ESBWR) design from the General Electric Company was thereby taken as the reference natural circulation BWR. Two experimental facilities located at the Delft University of Technology were used for that purpose: the GENESIS facility which uses Freon as working fluid and the water‐based CIRCUS facility. 2014-03-13T03:04:24Z 2014-03-13T03:04:24Z 2007 Book 978-1-61499-181-6 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36580 en application/pdf IOS Press
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description In the design of novel nuclear reactors active systems are replaced by passive ones in order to reduce the risk of failure. For that reason natural circulation is being considered as the primary cooling mechanism in next generation nuclear reactor designs such as the natural circulation boiling water reactor (BWR). In such a reactor, however, the flow is not a controlled parameter but is dependent on the power. As a result, the dynamical behavior significantly differs from that in conventional forced circulation BWRs. For that reason, predicting the stability characteristics of these reactors has to be carefully studied. In this work, a number of open issues are investigated regarding the stability of natural circulation BWRs (e.g. margins to instabilities at rated conditions, interaction between the thermal‐hydraulics and the neutronics, and the occurrence of flashing induced instabilities) with a strong emphasis on experimental evidence. The prototypical Economical Simplified BWR (ESBWR) design from the General Electric Company was thereby taken as the reference natural circulation BWR. Two experimental facilities located at the Delft University of Technology were used for that purpose: the GENESIS facility which uses Freon as working fluid and the water‐based CIRCUS facility.
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Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors
author_facet Marce, Christian Pablo
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title Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors
title_short Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors
title_full Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors
title_fullStr Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors
title_full_unstemmed Experimental and Numerical Stability Investigations on Natural Circulation Boiling Water Reactors
title_sort experimental and numerical stability investigations on natural circulation boiling water reactors
publisher IOS Press
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url https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/36580
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