Core thermal-hydraulics analysis during dipped-type direct heat exchanger operation in natural circulation conditions

浸漬型DHXを用いた自然循環崩壊熱除去時の炉心内熱流動解析

浜瀬 枝里菜 ; 三宅 康洋*; 今井 康友*; 堂田 哲広  ; 小野 綾子 ; 田中 正暁  

Hamase, Erina; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Imai, Yasutomo*; Doda, Norihiro; Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki

ナトリウム冷却高速炉の安全性強化のため、自然循環崩壊熱除去システムにおいて浸漬型直接炉内冷却器(D-DHX)の採用が検討されている。D-DHX稼働時には炉心-プレナム相互作用が生じ、炉容器内熱流動挙動は複雑化するため、プレナム内温度成層化や炉心部の熱流動現象が再現可能な炉容器内多次元熱流動解析評価手法(RV-CFD)の構築が必要となる。本研究では、RV-CFDを設計検討に用いる観点から、低計算負荷の集合体モデルをRV-CFDモデルの炉心部に採用し、ナトリウム試験装置PLANDTL-1を対象に試験解析を実施した。その結果、集合体内温度分布の傾向が再現され、本モデルの炉心-プレナム相互作用に対する適用性を確認した。

To enhance the safety of sodium-cooled fast reactors, a dipped-type direct heat exchanger (D-DHX) has been investigated in a natural circulation decay heat removal system. During the D-DHX operation, the core-plenum interactions occurs and the thermal-hydraulics in the reactor vessel (RV) is complicated, the establishment of thermal-hydraulic analysis model in the RV for computational fluid dynamics code (RV-CFD) is required to simulate the thermal stratification in the upper plenum and thermal-hydraulics in the core. In this study, in terms of using RV-CFD for design study, the subchannel CFD model with low computational cost was adopted to the core of RV-CFD and the numerical simulation was carried out in comparison with the measured data in the sodium test facility named PLANDTL-1. As the result, the calculated sodium temperature in the core had good agreement with the experimental result and the applicability of the RV-CFD for the core-plenum interactions was confirmed.