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Hamamoto, Shimpei; Takada, Shoji
Proceedings of 2017 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2017) (CD-ROM), 4 Pages, 2017/04
Hamamoto, Shimpei; Nemoto, Takahiro; Sekita, Kenji; Saito, Kenji
JAEA-Technology 2015-048, 62 Pages, 2016/03
JAEA-Technology-2015-048.pdf:2.58MB
The decarburization may take place depending on the chemical impurity composition in helium gas used as the primary coolant in High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors, and will significantly reduce the strength of the alloy. The ability to remove impurities by a helium purification system was designed according to the predicted generation rate of impurities so as to make the coolant become the carburizing atmosphere. It has been confirmed that the coolant becomes the carburizing atmosphere during the operation period of the High Temperature engineering Test Reactor (HTTR). However, it is necessary to consider changes of generation rates of impurities since lifetime of commercial reactor is longer than the life of the HTTR. To avoid the influence of the change of generation rate, the control of removal efficiency of impurity in the helium purification system was considered in this study. To reform the decarburizing into the carburizing atmosphere, it is effective to increase the H
and CO concentration in the coolant helium. By controlling the efficiency of the Cooper Oxide Trap (CuOT), it is possible to increase the H and CO concentrations. Therefore, an experiment was carried out by injecting the gas mixture of H and CO into the existing purification system of HTTR to investigate the dependencies of temperature and impurity concentration on the removal efficiency of CuOT. The experimental results are described as the following, (1) By adjusting the temperature of helium at the CuOT within a range from 110
C to 50C, it is possible to reduce the removal efficiency of H sufficiently. (2) Temperature change of helium gas in the CuOT is sufficiently reduced by the cooler located at the downstream of the CuOT, which does not affect the primary cooling system of HTTR. As the results, the applicability of removal efficiency control of CuOT was verified to improve the decarburizing atmosphere for the actual HTGR system.
Tochio, Daisuke; Fujimoto, Nozomu
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 53(3), p.425 - 431, 2016/03
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：9.68(Nuclear Science & Technology)The future HTGR is now designed in JAEA. The reactor has many merging points of helium gas with different temperature. It is needed to clear the mixing characteristics of helium gas at the pipe in the HTGR from the viewpoint of structure integrity and temperature control. Previously, the reactor inlet coolant temperature was controlled lower than specific one in the HTTR due to lack of mixing of helium gas in the primary cooling system. Now the control system is improved to use the calculated bulk temperature of reactor inlet helium gas. In this paper, thermal-hydraulic analysis on the primary cooling system of the HTTR was conducted to clarify the mixing behavior of helium gas. As the result, it was confirmed that the mixing behavior of helium gas in the primary cooling system is mainly affected by the aspect ratio of annular flow path, and it is needed to consider the mixing characteristics of helium gas at the piping design of the HTGR.
Sakaba, Nariaki; Hirayama, Yoshiaki*
Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear Energy System for Future Generation and Global Sustainability (GLOBAL 2005) (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2005/10
The high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) is capable of producing a massive quantity of hydrogen with no carbon dioxide emission during its production by a thermo chemical IS (Iodine-Sulphur) process. The HTTR (High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor), which is the first high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in Japan, will be connected to some heat utilization system in the near future. The thermo chemical IS process is one of the progressive candidates. The metallic material of the heat transfer tube of the intermediate heat exchanger (IHX) and liner in the concentric hot gas duct in the HTTR-IS system, which allows usage in high-temperature conditions, is the nickel-based high-temperature alloy Hastelloy XR. Since the coolant helium contains small amounts of impurities, it is necessary to control the chemical composition in order to minimize corrosion of the Hastelloy XR. Major corrosion phenomena of the Hastelloy XR are carburization, decarburization, oxidation, and carbon deposition depending upon the particular gas composition and its temperature. The carburization and decarburization phenomena can be restricted by controlling the carbon activity and oxygen partial pressure. This paper describes the effect of each coolant impurity for the carburization and decarburization. Also a chemical composition limit was evaluated to avoid the Hastelloy XR corrosion.
Sakaba, Nariaki; Tachibana, Yukio; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Hamamoto, Shimpei
Transactions of 18th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT-18), p.4499 - 4511, 2005/08
Safety demonstration tests using the HTTR are now underway in order to verify the inherent safety features and to improve the safety design and evaluation technologies for HTGRs, as well as to contribute to research and development for the VHTR, which is one of the Generation IV reactor candidates. The coolant flow reduction test by running down gas circulators, which is one of the safety demonstration tests, is a simulation test of anticipated transients without scram. During the coolant flow reduction test, temperature of the high-temperature helium components and chemistry in the primary circuit are changed rapidly. This paper describes the structural integrity assessments of helium components, e.g. helium pipes, heat exchangers, during the coolant flow reduction test. From the result of this evaluation, it was found that the helium components were kept their structural integrity during temperature and chemistry transient condition in the coolant flow reduction test from the reactor power at 30%. It was also confirmed by this assessment that the coolant flow reduction test will be able to perform with its enough safety margins from the reactor power at 100%.
C in HTTRFujikawa, Seigo; Hayashi, Hideyuki; Nakazawa, Toshio; Kawasaki, Kozo; Iyoku, Tatsuo; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Sakaba, Nariaki
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 41(12), p.1245 - 1254, 2004/12
Times Cited Count：96 Percentile：97.85(Nuclear Science & Technology)A High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) is particularly attractive due to its capability of producing high-temperature helium gas and to its inherent safety characteristics. The High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR), which is the first HTGR in Japan, achieved its rated thermal power of 30MW and reactor-outlet coolant temperature of 950C on 19 April 2004. During the high-temperature test operation which is the final phase of the rise-to-power tests, reactor characteristics and reactor performance were confirmed, and reactor operations were monitored to demonstrate the safety and stability of operation. The reactor-outlet coolant temperature of 950C makes it possible to extend high-temperature gas-cooled reactor use beyond the field of electric power. Also, highly effective power generation with a high-temperature gas turbine becomes possible, as does hydrogen production from water. The achievement of 950C will be a major contribution to the actualization of producing hydrogen from water using the high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. This report describes the results of the high-temperature test operation of the HTTR.
Sakaba, Nariaki; Furusawa, Takayuki; Kawamoto, Taiki; Ishii, Yoshiki; Ota, Yukimaru
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 233(1-3), p.147 - 154, 2004/10
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：60.66(Nuclear Science & Technology)The HTTR mainly consists of the core components, reactor pressure vessel, cooling systems, instrumentation and control systems, and containment structures. The design of remaining utility systems is described in this paper. They are: auxiliary helium systems which include the helium purification system, the helium sampling system, and the helium storage and supply system; fuel handling and storage system. The helium purification systems are installed in the primary and secondary helium cooling systems in order to reduce the quantity of chemical impurities. The helium sampling systems monitor the concentration of impurities. The helium storage and supply systems keep the steady pressure of the helium system during the normal operation. The fuel handling and storage system is utilised to handle the new and spent fuels safely and reliably.
Kosugiyama, Shinichi; Takizuka, Takakazu; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Yan, X.; Katanishi, Shoji; Takada, Shoji
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai Wabun Rombunshi, 2(3), p.319 - 331, 2003/09
no abstracts in English
Sakaba, Nariaki; Nakazawa, Toshio; Kawasaki, Kozo; Urakami, Masao*; Saishu, Sadanori*
JAERI-Tech 2003-041, 106 Pages, 2003/03
JAERI-Tech-2003-041.pdf:6.58MB
In the second stage of the research and development for a high-temperature helium-leak detection system, the temperature sensor using optical fibres was studied. The sensor detects the helium leakage by the temperature inclease surrounded opitical fibre with or without heat insulator. Moreover, the applicability of high temperature equipments as the HTTR system was studied. With the sensor we detected 5.0-20.0 cm
/s helium leakages within 60 minutes. Also it was possible to detect earlier when the leakage level is at 20.0 cm/s.
Sakaba, Nariaki; Nakazawa, Toshio; Kawasaki, Kozo; Urakami, Masao*; Saishu, Sadanori*
JAERI-Review 2002-041, 86 Pages, 2003/03
JAERI-Review-2002-041.pdf:3.21MB
In High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR), the detection of leakage of helium at an early stage is very important for the safety and stability of operations. Since helium is a colourless gas, it is generally difficult to identify the location and the amount of leakage when very little leakage has occurred. The purpose of this R&D is to develop a helium-leak detection system for the high temperature environment appropriate to the HTTR. This system can shorten the time of detection to several hours from about one week in the current detection time. In addition, it can also identify easily the leak location using the optical fibre network. As the first step in the development, this paper describes the result of surveying leakage events at nuclear facilities inside and outside Japan and current gas leakage detection technology to adapt optical fibre detection technology to HTGRs.
Sakaba, Nariaki; Nakazawa, Toshio; Kawasaki, Kozo; Urakami, Masao*; Saishu, Sadanori*
JAERI-Research 2003-006, 65 Pages, 2003/03
JAERI-Research-2003-006.pdf:2.89MB
In the final third stage of the research and development for a high-temperature helium-leak detection system, the radiation sensor was developed in order to detect very small helium leakage. Applying the radiation sensor, we proposed not only the direct detection method which uses the detection of FP gas in helium, but also the active method which uses the difference in the radiation absorption between helium and air. From obtained data it was found that we can detect 0.2 cm/s leakage within 10 minutes by the active method.
Ishiyama, Shintaro; Muto, Yasushi; Ogata, Hiroshi*; Kamito, Yoshimi*
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 43(7), p.708 - 717, 2001/07
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：26.61(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Inaba, Yoshitomo; Fumizawa, Motoo*; Tonogochi, Makoto*; Takenaka, Yutaka*
Applied Energy, 67(4), p.395 - 406, 2000/12
Times Cited Count：10 Percentile：49.43(Energy & Fuels)no abstracts in English
Tachibana, Yukio; Hontani, Koji*; Takeda, Takeshi; Saikusa, Akio; Shinozaki, Masayuki; Isozaki, Minoru; Iyoku, Tatsuo; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 201(2-3), p.227 - 238, 2000/10
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：26.10(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Tanaka, Toshiyuki; Okubo, Minoru; Iyoku, Tatsuo; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Takeda, Takeshi; Sakaba, Nariaki; Saito, Kenji
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 41(6), p.686 - 698, 1999/00
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：34.39(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
Takeda, Takeshi; Nakagawa, Shigeaki; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko
Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-7) (CD-ROM), 10 Pages, 1999/00
no abstracts in English
Tachibana, Yukio; Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Furusawa, Takayuki; Shinozaki, Masayuki; ;
JAERI-Tech 98-045, 36 Pages, 1998/10
no abstracts in English
Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Tachibana, Yukio; ; Nakano, Masaaki*; Saikusa, Akio; Takeda, Takeshi; Iyoku, Tatsuo; ; Sawahata, Hiroaki; Okubo, Minoru; et al.
JAERI-Tech 97-040, 91 Pages, 1997/09
no abstracts in English
Shimomura, Hiroaki
JAERI-Research 96-034, 73 Pages, 1996/06
JAERI-Research-96-034.pdf:2.47MB
no abstracts in English
Kunitomi, Kazuhiko; Takeda, Takeshi; ; Okubo, Minoru; ; ;
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 38(8), p.665 - 672, 1996/00
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：14.32(Nuclear Science & Technology)no abstracts in English
