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Dry flowing abrasive decontamination technique for pipe systems with swirling air flow

Kameo, Yutaka; Nakashima, Mikio; Hirabayashi, Takakuni*

Nuclear Technology, 144(1), p.76 - 82, 2003/10

Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：10.87(Nuclear Science & Technology)

Erosion behavior of stainless and carbon steel pipes by a swirling air flow containing alumina or cast-iron grit abrasive was investigated. Effects of operating conditions such as an abrasive concentration and a flow rate of air-stream on erosion ability was examined. Erosion depths of the test pipes were approximately proportional to the concentration of abrasives and exponent of flow rate of air-stream. The experimental results indicated that the present method could keep satisfactory erosion ability of abrasives even for a large size pipe. The present method was successfully applied to $^{60}$ Co-contaminated specimens sampled from a pipe of the water clean-up system of the Japan Power Demonstration Reactor.

JAEA Reports

Report on investigation of cause of crack at instrumentation pipe in JMTR; Results of vibration and stress analysis

Hanawa, Satoshi; Tachibana, Yukio; Iyoku, Tatsuo; Ishihara, Masahiro; Ito, Haruhiko

JAERI-Tech 2003-064, 25 Pages, 2003/07

JAERI-Tech-2003-064.pdf:2.84MB

On the 147cycle operation, the water leakage was found at the pressure instrumentation pipe which is attached to the exit pipe of No.1 charge pump of the purification system of primary cooling system at JMTR in the Oarai establishment, JAERI. Then JMTR was shutted down manually on December 10th. It was predicted that the crack on the pressure instrumentation pipe was initiated and propagated by the cyclic load which was caused by the charge pump. Therefore, vibration and stress analyses of pressure instrumentation pipe were performed. From the vibration analysis, the natural frequency of the pressure instrumentation pipe of No.1 charge pump is between 5358Hz, which is close to the resonance frequency of 50Hz. From the stress analysis results, total stress generated on the pressure instrumentation pipe is 112.2MPa at the natural frequency of 53Hz and 74.2Mpa at 58Hz. It was found that the stress of 112.2MPa is close to the fatigue limit of used materials.

JAEA Reports

Report on investigation of cause of crack at instrumentation pipe in JMTR; Data book on examination of pressure instrumentation pipe at JMTR hot laboratory

Working Group for Investigation of Cause of Crack Initiation

JAERI-Tech 2003-060, 183 Pages, 2003/07

JAERI-Tech-2003-060.pdf:55.37MB

On December 10, 2002, the water leakage was found at the pressure instrumentation pipe attached to the exit pipe of No.1 charging pump of the purification system of a primary cooling system at JMTR, and the cracks were detected on the pressure instrumentation pipe by the visual observation. The Investigation Committee for Water Leakage from Instrumentation Pipe in JMTR was established and organized by specialists from inside and outside JAERI on December 16. In order to investigate the cause of crack initiation at the pressure instrumentation pipe, the Working Group was organized in the Department of JMTR. Visual inspection, fractgraphy test, metallographic observation and hardness test for the pressure instrumentation pipe and its weldment were carried out in the JMTR Hot Laboratory. This report summarized above data obtained by investigation on the cause of the crack initiation.

JAEA Reports

Report on the water leakage from instrumentation pipe in JMTR

JMTR Pressure Measurement Pipe Investigation Committee

JAERI-Review 2003-014, 117 Pages, 2003/03

JAERI-Review-2003-014.pdf:27.62MB

On December 10、2002, the leak was found at the pressure measurement pipe attached to the exit pipe of No.1 filing pump of the refining system of a primary cooling system at JMTR in Oarai Research establishment JAERI. Investigation Committee for Water Leakage from Instrumentation Pipe in JMTR was established and organized by specialists from inside and outside JAERI on December 16 and its meeting was held in public 3 times by 6th January, 2003. They investigated the cause and countermeasures of cracks, and also investigated enhancement of safety management. This is the report on the cause and countermeasures of cracks and enhancement of safety management.

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