Abstract
As a contribution to the safety analyses of condition following loss-of-coolant accidents in light water reactor, experiments were performed to obtain data on container spraying and on accompanying heat transfer characteristics, by means of a one-tenth scale model container. The loss of coolant was simulated injecting high temperature saturated water into the model container in which air bad been enclosed at atmospheric and room temperature, and then the steam-air mixture was cooled by sprays of water.
The rate of heat absorption by the spray was obtained from both stationary and transient data, and it was confirmed that the absorption becomes incomplete as the container pressure is lowered.
The evaporation of the water collected at the bottom and of that from sprayed walls of the container was derived from container pressure variation in time, by measuring its rate of change immediately following stoppage of the spray ; the rate of evaporation was found more active as the rate of spray cooling increases.
The evaporation from the sprayed walls was obtained from thermal data taken on a copper cylinder placed in the container, and it was found that the evaporation becomes more active as the pressure increases.
