Differential pressure analysis for ventilation filter by smoke under fire accident with CELVA-1D

Watanabe, Koji; Tashiro, Shinsuke ; Abe, Hitoshi ; Takada, Junichi; Morita, Yasuji  

In a part of building ventilating installation of a nuclear fuel facility, a reprocessing plant for example, the pre-filters are adopted as one of the ventilation filters. In a fire accident, it is supposed that, because of the pre-filter clogging by large smoke, its differential pressure (p) is evolved up to the value at its breakage. Therefore, in regard to maintaining the confinement of radioactive materials, it is important to predict the time course of p of the pre-filter accurately. In the current study, it was assumed that the empirical equation for the DF of the pre-filter as function of smoke particle diameter (SPD), between 0.7-2 m, could be applied to estimating its DF for SPD above 2 m. Under this assumption, the time corresponding to its p at its breakage, calculated by CELVA-1D, was agreed well with the experimental result.