High temperature combustion facility: present capabilities and future prospects
Creators
- 1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton (United States)
Description
The high-temperature combustion facility constructed and operated by the Department of Advanced Technology of Brookhaven National Laboratory to support and promote research in the area of hydrogen combustion phenomena in mixtures prototypical to light-water reactor containment atmospheres under potential severe accident conditions is reported. The facility can accommodate combustion research activities encompassing the fields of detonation physics, flame acceleration, and low-speed deflagration in a wide range of combustible gas mixtures at initial temperatures up to 700 K and post-combustion pressures up to 100 atmospheres. Some preliminary test results are presented that provide further evidence that the effect of temperature is to increase the sensitivity of hydrogen-air-steam mixtures to undergo detonation
Abstract (Russian)
Описана высокотемпературная установка для изучения процессов сжигания, созданная и эксплуатируемая в отделе передовых технологий национальной лаборатории в Брукхейвене для исследований в области сжигания водорода в смесях, характерных для атмосферы защитной оболочки легководных реакторов в условиях возможных аварий с тяжелыми последствиями. Установка позволяет проводить исследования в области физики детонаций, ускоренного распространения пламени и замедленного сгорания без взрыва в широком диапазоне горючих газовых смессей при начальных температурах до 700 К и конечных давлениях до 100 атмосфер. Представлены некоторые предварительные результаты испытаний, указывающие на то, что рост температуры должен увеличивать чувствительность смесей водорода, воздуха и водяного пара к детонацииAdditional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- EhNAS
- Imprint Place
- Moscow (Russian Federation)
- ISBN
- 5-89055-002-0
- Imprint Title
- Combustion, detonation, shock waves. Proceedings of the Zel'dovich memorial - International conference on combustion. Volume 1
- Imprint Pagination
- 458 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 429-433
Conference
- Title
- Zel'dovich memorial - International conference on combustion
- Dates
- 12-17 Sep 1994
- Place
- Moscow (Russian Federation)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Russian Federation
- Country of Input or Organization
- Russian Federation
- INIS RN
- 34046918
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AIR; COMBUSTION; CONTAINMENT; EXPLOSIONS; FLAMMABILITY; HYDROGEN; MIXTURES; REACTOR SAFETY; SENSITIVITY; STEAM; TEST FACILITIES; WATER COOLED REACTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMBUSTION PROPERTIES; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTS; FLUIDS; GASES; NONMETALS; OXIDATION; REACTORS; SAFETY; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 4 figs.