Measurements of pressure drop and void fraction of air-water two-phase flow in a sphere-packed bed

山本 誠士郎*; 大平 直也*; 伊藤 大介*; 伊藤 啓*; 齊藤 泰司*; 今泉 悠也; 松場 賢一; 神山 健司

Proceedings of 12th Japan-Korea Symposium on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics and Safety (NTHAS12) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2022/10

To develop a microscopic pressure drop prediction model based on detailed measurement data of gas liquid two-phase flow, the pressure drop was measured in the vertical upward gas-liquid two-phase flow formed in quasi-2D test section. The measurement results showed that the pressure drop in the quasi-2D test section was much smaller than that in the ordinal packed bed system, which suggests that the pressure drop mechanism in the quasi-2D test section could be different from that in the ordinal packed bed system due to differences in two-phase flow characteristics in the two systems. The void fraction distribution was also measured in the quasi-2D test section by the X-ray imaging technique, which revealed that there was a local distribution of the void fraction in the channel unit structure of the closest packed bed.