Aspects of modeling fission product scrubbing in suppression pools

Theoretical predictions have shown substantial fission product retention by the discharge of carrier gas into a pressure suppression pool. Additional experimental data is becoming available for further verification of pool hydrodynamics and fission product scrubbing models in bubbling. However, parameters like gas volume rate, discharge configuration, pool depth, and aerosol particle size have broad ranges. Therefore, it is appropriate to correlate and present the available data from various experiments in terms of nondimensional groups, so that models can be evaluated for extensive parameter ranges. This study employs a normalization of equations governing the pool hydrodynamics and fission particle scrubbing with which experimental data correlation is expected. Sample correlations of available data are included