Rod displacement effect on thermal-hydraulic behaviour in tight-lattice bundle based on X-ray CT measurement

稠密格子体系ロッド位置変位のX線CT装置による測定と伝熱特性への影響

光武 徹*; 秋本 肇; 三澤 丈治; 呉田 昌俊*; 勝山 幸三* ; 永峯 剛*; 松元 愼一郎*

Mitsutake, Toru*; Akimoto, Hajime; Misawa, Takeharu; Kureta, Masatoshi*; Katsuyama, Kozo*; Nagamine, Tsuyoshi*; Matsumoto, Shinichiro*

稠密格子模擬7本バンドル伝熱試験体の内部構造を高エネルギーX線CTで撮像し、ヒータロッドの配列を定量的に測定した。その結果、ヒータロッド中心位置の変位は最大0.5mmであった。その結果に基づいて、ヒータロッド周りの流路形状を計算し、サブチャンネル解析コードに入力して除熱限界出力を予測した。その結果、ヒータロッド位置の及ぼす限界出力計算値への影響は小さく、限界出力の予測誤差はほとんど減少しなかった。

An inside-structure observation of a tight-lattice 7-rod bundle was made, using the high-energy X-ray computer tomography(CT) apparatus. The two-dimensional configurations of all rods were obtained at seventy-six axial height positions over the whole length of the bundle. The measured results of the rod positions showed small rod position displacements, about 0.5 millimeters at maximum, from the lattice positions. Based on these measured rod position displacement results, the flow area, equivalent hydraulic diameter, rod-rod clearance, and rod-shroud clearance were calculated. The effect of rod position displacement on critical power was estimated by a sub-channel analysis. The result showed that the rod position displacement effect has only a small effect on critical power calculations. The calculated critical power still overestimated the measured value.