1982 年 19 巻 10 号 p. 813-820
Natural circulation in a PWR has received considerable attention since the TMI-2 accident as an alternative cooling method or recovery technique from certain kinds of accidents or transients involving a loss of pumped circulation. Among the three modes of natural circulation (i.e. single-phase, two-phase and reflux cooling), reflux cooling has not been well investigated in a PWR configuration. The present study was thus focused on reflux cooling of natural circulation and analytical method was developed to estimate the liquid velocity of the condensed liquid in a hot leg of a PWR.
The results of the present study showed that the liquid velocity and the liquid thickness are estimated as 2.7 m/s and 3.0 cm, respectively, at the hot leg inlet from the upper plenum for the typical PWR reflux condition (2% core power at 6.9 MPa). Therefore it was concluded that a flow-blockage of the steam flow from the core by the condensed liquid flow is unlikely to occur in a hot leg. The results are also useful for designing a special instrumentation for measuring the condensed liquid flow rate and the liquid thickness in an experimental test facility for reflux cooling test.
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