Published 2002 | Version v1
Book

Design and Testing of Vacuum Breaker Check Valve for Simplified Boiling Water Reactor

  • 1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 (United States)

Description

A new design of the vacuum breaker check valve was developed to replace the mechanical valve in a simplified boiling water reactor. Scaling and design calculations were performed to obtain the geometry of new passive hydraulic vacuum breaker check valve. In order to check the valve performance, a RELAP5 model of the simplified boiling water reactor system with the new valve was developed. The valve was implemented in an integral facility, PUMA and was tested for large break loss of coolant accident. (authors)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME
Imprint Place
New York (United States)
Imprint Pagination
6 p.

Conference

Title
10. international conference on nuclear engineering
Acronym
ICONE 10
Dates
14-18 Apr 2002
Place
Arlington - Virginia (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
39077168
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BWR TYPE REACTORS; DESIGN; LOSS OF COOLANT; PERFORMANCE; VALVES
Descriptors DEC
ACCIDENTS; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EQUIPMENT; FLOW REGULATORS; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS