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Hamase, Erina; Ohgama, Kazuya; Kawamura, Takumi*; Doda, Norihiro; Yamano, Hidemasa; Tanaka, Masaaki
Proceedings of 12th Japan-Korea Symposium on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics and Safety (NTHAS12) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2022/10
To improve the prediction accuracy of the plant dynamics analysis code named Super-COPD, JAEA has joined the IAEA benchmark for the FFTF Loss of Flow Without Scram Test No.13. In the first blind phase, there was the challenge to perform outlet temperatures of fuel assemblies more accurately. Hence, the renewed analysis was performed with the whole core multi-channel model in which each assembly was modelled to simulate the radial heat transfer among assemblies and the flow redistribution induced by the buoyancy in the NC conditions. Then, to validate the coupled transient analysis between the whole core multi-channel model and the one-point kinetics model, the analysis considering major reactivity feedbacks such as GEM, assembly bowing was performed. As a result, the second peak of outlet temperatures was reproduced successfully, and it was observed that the plant dynamics analysis could follow the measured data.
Hamase, Erina; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Imai, Yasutomo*; Doda, Norihiro; Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki
Proceedings of 13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-13) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2022/09
To enhance the safety of sodium-cooled fast reactors, the natural circulation (NC) decay heat removal systems with a dipped-type direct heat exchanger (D-DHX) have been investigated. During the D-DHX operation, since the core-plenum interaction occurs, development of the reactor vessel model including the more model by using a computational fluid dynamics code (RV-CFD) is required. Previously, the CFD model based on the subchannel analysis was developed. In this study, to achieve much lower computational cost maintaining the prediction accuracy, the coarse-mesh subchannel CFD (CMSC) model has been developed and was incorporated into the core of RV-CFD. As a result of PLANDTL-1 test analysis, the RV-CFD with the CMSC model can reproduce the radial heat transfer under NC conditions.
Doda, Norihiro; Yoshimura, Kazuo; Hamase, Erina; Yokoyama, Kenji; Uwaba, Tomoyuki; Tanaka, Masaaki
Proceedings of Technical Meeting on State-of-the-art Thermal Hydraulics of Fast Reactors (Internet), 3 Pages, 2022/09
ARKADIA-Design is being developed to support the optimization of sodium-cooled fast reactors in the conceptual design stage. Design optimization requires various types of numerical analysis: 1-D plant dynamics analysis for efficient evaluation of various design options and multi-dimensional analysis for a detailed evaluation of local phenomena, including multi-physics. For those analyses, ARKADIA-Design performs whole plant analyses based on the multi-level simulation (MLS) technique in which the analysis codes are coupled to simulate the phenomena in an intended degree of resolution. This paper describes an outline of the coupling analysis methods in the MLS of the ARKADIA-Design and the numerical simulations of the experimental fast breeder reactor EBR-II tests by the coupled analysis.
Hamase, Erina; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Imai, Yasutomo*; Doda, Norihiro; Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki
Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 9(4), p.21-00438_1 - 21-00438_15, 2022/08
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.
Doda, Norihiro; Hamase, Erina; Kikuchi, Norihiro; Tanaka, Masaaki
Proceedings of International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles; Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future (FR22) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2022/04
In conventional design studies of sodium-cooled fast reactors, plant dynamics and local phenomena were evaluated separately by using simple models and detailed models, respectively, and their interaction was considered through the boundary conditions settings with conservativeness for each individual analysis. Thus, the final result through the analyses may contain excessive conservativeness. Therefore, JAEA began to develop a multi-level simulation system in which detailed analysis codes are coupled with a plant dynamics analysis code. Focusing on core thermal-hydraulics, a coupled analysis method using a plant dynamics analysis code Super-COPD and a subchannel analysis code ASFRE has been developed. The analysis on a test in the experimental fast reactor EBR-II was performed to validate the coupled analysis. Through the comparison of the analysis results and the measurement, it was confirmed that the coupled analysis could predict the transient temperature distribution in the subassembly, and the multi-level simulation by changing the level of detail in analysis model could be performed for core thermal-hydraulics.
Hamase, Erina; Doda, Norihiro; Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Imai, Yasutomo*
Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE 28) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2021/08
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, therefore, a thermal-hydraulic analysis model in the reactor vessel for computational fluid dynamics code (RV-CFD model) is necessarily required. In this study, the application of the subchannel analysis method for subassemblies to the RV-CFD model was attempted to reduce the calculation costs. Analysis results were compared to the experimental data obtained in the sodium experimental apparatus PLANDTL-1. As the result, the behavior of cold sodium into the simulated core was well grasped and the calculated sodium temperature in the core had good agreement with the experimental result. The applicability of the RV-CFD model was confirmed.
Doda, Norihiro; Hamase, Erina; Yokoyama, Kenji; Tanaka, Masaaki
Keisan Kogaku Koenkai Rombunshu (CD-ROM), 25, 4 Pages, 2020/06
With the aim of advancing the design optimization in fast reactors, neutronics and thermal-hydraulics coupled analysis method which can consider the temporal change of neutron flux distribution in the core has been developed. A three-dimensional neutronics analysis code and a plant dynamics analysis code are coupled on a platform using Python programing. In this report, outlines of the coupling method of analysis codes, the results of its application to the actual plant under a virtual accidental condition, and the future development is described.
Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Hamase, Erina; Ezure, Toshiki
Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 7(3), p.19-00546_1 - 19-00546_11, 2020/06
Fully natural circulation decay heat removal systems (DHRSs) are to be adopted for sodium fast reactors, which is a passive safety feature without any electrical pumps. It is required to grasp the thermal-hydraulic phenomena in the reactor vessel and evaluate the coolability of the core under the natural circulation not only for the normal operating condition but also for severe accident conditions. In this paper, the numerical results of the preliminary analysis for the sodium experimental condition with the PLANDTL-2 are discussed to establish an appropriate numerical models for the reactor core including the gap region among the subassemblies and the DHX. From these preliminary analyses, the characteristics of the thermal-hydraulics behavior in the PLANDTL-2 to be focused are extracted.
Ono, Ayako; Tanaka, Masaaki; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Hamase, Erina; Ezure, Toshiki
Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-27) (Internet), 7 Pages, 2019/05
Decay heat removal system (DHRS) by using the natural circulation without depending on the pump as the mechanical equipment is recognized as one of the most effective methodologies for the sodium-cooled fast reactor from the viewpoint of the safety enhancement. In this paper, the numerical simulation results of the preliminary analysis for the sodium experiment with the apparatus of PLANDTL-2, in which the core and the upper plenum with a dipped-type direct heat exchanger (DHX) were modeled, were discussed, in order to establish appropriate numerical models for the reactor core including the gap region among the subassemblies and the DHX.
Tanaka, Masaaki; Ono, Ayako; Hamase, Erina; Ezure, Toshiki; Miyake, Yasuhiro*
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Kanto Shibu Ibaraki Koenkai 2018 Koen Rombunshu (CD-ROM), 4 Pages, 2018/08
Decay heat removal system (DHRS) by using the natural circulation without depending on the pump as the mechanical equipment is recognized as one of the most effective methodologies for the sodium-cooled fast reactor from the viewpoint of the safety enhancement. The numerical estimation method which can predict thermal hydraulic phenomena in the natural circulation under the plant cooling process by operating the various DHRSs including the severe accident is necessarily required. In this paper, the numerical results of the preliminary analysis for the sodium experiment condition with the apparatus of PLANDTL-2, in which the core and the upper plenum with a dipped-type direct heat exchanger (DHX) were modeled, were discussed, in order to establish an appropriate numerical models for the direct heat exchanger (DHX).
Hamase, Erina; Doda, Norihiro; Nabeshima, Kunihiko; Ono, Ayako; Ohshima, Hiroyuki
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Rombunshu (Internet), 83(848), p.16-00431_1 - 16-00431_11, 2017/04
A plant dynamics analysis code Super-COPD is being developed in JAEA for the design and safety assessments of sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs). In this study, the friction loss coefficients in the whole core thermal-hydraulic model was modified to improve the prediction accuracy of the sodium temperature distribution in a fuel subassembly under the natural circulation conditions. The modified whole core model was applied to analyses of experiments that were performed by using JAEA's test facility PLANDTL as a part of the code validation study. The obtained numerical results of sodium temperature distributions in the core showed good agreement with the measured data. It implies that the modified whole core model can properly reproduce dominant thermal-hydraulic phenomena in the core region under natural circulation conditions, i.e., flow redistribution among fuel subassemblies as well as in a fuel subassembly and inter-subassembly heat transfer.
Hamase, Erina; Doda, Norihiro; Nabeshima, Kunihiko; Ono, Ayako; Ohshima, Hiroyuki
Dai-21-Kai Doryoku, Enerugi Gijutsu Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu (USB Flash Drive), 2 Pages, 2016/06
Under natural circulation decay heat removal conditions, three characteristic phenomena; flow redistribution in the core as well as in the fuel subassemblies, inter-subassembly heat transfer and gap flow between wrapper tubes of fuel subassemblies are important for assessing the temperature distribution in the core. In order to improve the prediction accuracy, a whole core model which can consider these three phenomena has been incorporated into the plant dynamics analysis code Super-COPD. In this study, analyses of two kinds of sodium experiments were performed to validate Super-COPD with the whole core model, which were focusing on inter-subassembly heat transfer phenomena.
Ohno, Shuji; Hamase, Erina; Kamide, Hideki
Proceedings of 2013 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2013) (USB Flash Drive), 8 Pages, 2013/04
This paper describes outline and current status of ongoing verification and validation activitiess of sodium fire analysis code system for fast reactor plant. The simulation accuracy of sodium droplet burning model is assessed and shown. The effectiveness of three-dimensional gas thermal-hydraulic analysis is also investigated.
Ohno, Shuji; Hamase, Erina; Kamide, Hideki
Proceedings of 8th Japan-Korea Symposium on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics and Safety (NTHAS-8) (USB Flash Drive), 5 Pages, 2012/12
Sensitivity analyses of sodium leak and fire are performed to identify the dominant factors for the accident consequences. The analyses with a multi-cell zone model code SPHINCS treat sodium spray and pool simultaneous combustion and heat-mass transfer behaviors in a large-scale two-cell geometry. Atmospheric gas pressure increase and temperature increase of floor steel plate below the sodium pool are analyzed as the figures of merit to be directly focused on. The analyses clarify the important and dominant factors of the phenomena in the accident sequence quantitatively, resulting in the acquirement of the knowledge to conduct the appropriate code validation activity and to discuss the uncertainty in the safety evaluation results.
Ohno, Shuji; Hamase, Erina; Kamide, Hideki
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We conducted sensitivity analyses on the thermal effect of sodium leak and fire accident as one of the verification and validation activities for sodium fire analysis codes. The analyses enable to quantify the dominant physical/chemical factors in the sodium fire behavior.
Hamase, Erina; Ohno, Shuji
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Verification and validation for sodium fire analysis codes have been the focus of our recent research aiming to apply these codes to a safety assessment for a sodium-cooled fast reactor. In the present study, the combustion experiment with large sodium leakage rate in 2 cells geometry was simulated by using the sodium fire analysis code, SPHINCS. Two cells geometry consists of the combustion room and the adjacent room which have the opening between them. Also, the adjacent room has another opening through outside. It was found that the propagation of gas pressure from the combustion room to the adjacent room had generally good agreement between the experiment and SPHINCS analysis. It has been also confirmed that it could be possible to adopt the spray droplet combustion model to the simulation of combustion experiment in which the sodium jet hit the obstacle and the ceiling in the combustion room.
Ohno, Shuji; Oki, Hiroshi*; Hamase, Erina; Kamide, Hideki
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Verification and validation activities have been under progress for a sodium fire analysis code system to be utilized in fast reactor plant design and safety evaluation. In this work, the authors performed parametric analyses of sodium spray fire using a fire analysis code AQUA-SF, demonstrating the effectiveness of multi-dimensional thermal-hydraulic analysis which enables the realistic evaluation of fire consequence by the consideration of local oxygen deficiency near the sodium burning region.
Ohno, Shuji; Hamase, Erina
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Validation study of numerical analysis tools has been underway in the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in order to establish a safety evaluation method for sodium leak and fire accident postulated in sodium-cooled fast reactor plants. This paper describes briefly the current status of sodium fire analysis codes development and validation activities, emphasizing that the code validation is performed with focusing on important phenomena and dominant factors for accident consequence. It is also demonstrated from a numerical experiment that one of the important evaluating issues of large-scale sodium spray leak and fire would be predicted more realistically and precisely by a three-dimensional sodium fire analysis code since it would enable the estimation of local effect; i.e. the oxygen deficiency behavior in the spray fire region.
Hamase, Erina; Ohno, Shuji
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In the present study, the fire experiment with large sodium leakage rate in 2 cells geometry was simulated by using the sodium fire analysis code, SPHINCS. Two cells geometry consists of the fire room and the adjacent room which have the opening between them. In the fire room, the sodium jet was directed vertically upwards and it was dispersed with fire after impacting on the obstacle, ceiling and side walls. In order to analyze this complicated phenomenon, the pathway of splashing sodium droplets was obtained in the numerical calculation and the motion of sodium droplets was arranged in chronological sequence. It was found that the behavior of gas pressure had generally good agreement between the experiment and SPHINCS analysis, and by performing SPHINCS calculation the gas pressure in the fire room is significantly increased due to gas expansion with temperature increasing and then is reduced due to the propagation of gas pressure from the fire room to the adjacent room.
Aoyagi, Mitsuhiro; Hamase, Erina; Ohno, Shuji; Yamada, Takahiro*; Watanabe, Tadashi*; Uno, Masayoshi*
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We have been conducting an R&D project to develop estimation technology for availability of measure for failure of containment vessel in sodium cooled fast reactors. The aim of this study is development of detailed numerical simulation methods for sodium fire consequences considering multi-dimensional thermal-hydraulic behavior.
