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Park, Ju Hwan; Kang, Hyung Seok; Rhee, Bo Wook
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Taejon (Korea, Republic of)2006
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Taejon (Korea, Republic of)2006
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[en] The establishment of safety analysis system and technology for CANDU reactors has been performed at KAERI. As for one of these researches, single CANDU fuel bundle has been simulated by CATHENA for the post-blowdown event to consider the complicated geometry and heat transfer in the fuel channel. In the previous LBLOCA analysis methodology adopted for Wolsong 2, 3, 4 licensing, the fuel channel blowdown phase was analyzed by a CANDU system analysis code CATHENA and the post-blowdown phase of fuel channel was analyzed by CHAN-IIA code. The use of one computer code in consecutive analyses appeared to be desirable for consistency and simplicity in the safety analysis process. However, validation of the high temperature post-blowdown fuel channel model in the CATHENA before being used in the accident analysis is necessary. Experimental data for the 37-element fuel bundle that fueled CANDU-6 has not been performed. The benchmark problems for the 37-element fuel bundle using CFD code will be compared with the test results of the 28-element fuel bundle in the CS28-1 experiment. A full grid model of FES to the calandria tube simulating the test section was generated. The number of the generated mesh in the grid model was 4,324,340 cells. The boundary and heat source conditions, and properties data in the CFD analysis were given according to the test results and reference data. Thermal hydraulic phenomena in the fuel channel were simulated by a compressible flow, a highly turbulent flow, and a convection/conduction/radiation heat transfer. The natural convection flow of CO2 due to a large temperature difference in the gap between the pressure and the calandria tubes was treated by Boussinesq's buoyancy model. The CFD results showed good agreement with the test results as a whole. The inner/middle/outer FES temperature distributions of the CFD results showed a small overestimated value of about 30 .deg. C at the entrance region, but good agreement at the outlet region. The difference between CFD results and test data may be due to an error in radiation heat transfer calculation, or to a wrong assumption of inlet temperature distribution in the CFD analysis. The comparison result of the pressure tube also indicated that the discrete transfer model for radiation heat transfer calculation has an error because temperature difference of about 30 .deg. C at the outlet region is large compared with the comparison steam and FES temperature. A verification work of discrete transfer model and CFD sensitivity calculation using another assumed temperature distribution for the inlet should be performed. The CFD benchmark calculation for the post-blowdown test in CANDU fuel channel will be performed to assist the development of the new safety analysis strategy and develop the CFD analysis methodology which can be used in the safety analysis of CANDU
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May 2006; 48 p; Also available from Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Taejon (Korea, Republic of); 25 refs, 13 figs, 4 tabs
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