Cycle Calculations of a Small-Scale Heat Removal System With Supercritical CO2 As Working Fluid

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Strätz ◽  
Jörg Starflinger ◽  
Rainer Mertz ◽  
Michael Seewald ◽  
Sebastian Schuster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Supercritical Co2 ◽  
Heat Removal ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Brayton Cycle ◽  
Additional Heat ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

In case of an accident in a nuclear power plant with combined initiating events, (loss of ultimate heat sink and station blackout) additional heat removal system could transfer the decay heat from the core to and diverse ultimate heat sink. On additional heat removal system, which is based upon a Brayton cycle with supercritical CO2 as working fluid, is currently investigated within an EU-funded project, sCO2-HeRo (Supercritical carbon dioxide heat removal system). It shall serve as a self-launching, self-propelling and self-sustaining decay heat removal system to be used in severe accident scenarios. Since a Brayton cycle produces more electric power that it consumes, the excess electric power can be used inside the power plant, e.g. recharging batteries. A small-scale demonstrator will be attached to the PWR glass model at Gesellschaft für Simulatorforschung GfS, Essen, Germany. In order to design and build this small-scale model, cycle calculations are performed to determine the design parameters from which a layout can be derived.

Cycle Calculations of a Small-Scale Heat Removal System With Supercritical CO2 as Working Fluid

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Straetz ◽  
Joerg Starflinger ◽  
Rainer Mertz ◽  
Dieter Brillert
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Heat Removal ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Brayton Cycle ◽  
Additional Heat ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

In the case of an accident in a nuclear power plant with combined initiating events (loss of ultimate heat sink and station blackout), an additional heat removal system could transfer the decay heat from the core to an ultimate heat sink (UHS). One specific additional heat removal system, based upon a Brayton cycle with supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) as working fluid, is currently investigated within the European Union-funded project “sCO2-HeRo” (supercritical carbon dioxide heat removal system). It serves as a self-launching, self-propelling, and self-sustaining decay heat removal system used in severe accident scenarios. Since this Brayton cycle produces more electric power than it consumes, the excess electric power can be used inside the power plant, e.g., for recharging batteries. A small-scale demonstrator is attached to the pressurized water reactor (PWR) glass model at Gesellschaft für Simulatorschulung (GfS), Essen, Germany. In order to design and build this small-scale model, cycle calculations are performed to determine the design parameters from which a layout can be derived.

Setup of the Supercritical CO2 Test Facility “SCARLETT” for Basic Experimental Investigations of a Compact Heat Exchanger for an Innovative Decay Heat Removal System

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Flaig ◽  
Rainer Mertz ◽  
Joerg Starflinger
Keyword(s):  
Heat Exchanger ◽  
Supercritical Co2 ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Heat Removal ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

Supercritical fluids show great potential as future coolants for nuclear reactors, thermal power, and solar power plants. Compared to the subcritical condition, supercritical fluids show advantages in heat transfer due to thermodynamic properties near the critical point. A specific field of interest is an innovative decay heat removal system for nuclear power plants, which is based on a turbine-compressor system with supercritical CO2 as the working fluid. In case of a severe accident, this system converts the decay heat into excess electricity and low-temperature waste heat, which can be emitted to the ambient air. To guarantee the retrofitting of this decay heat removal system into existing nuclear power plants, the heat exchanger (HE) needs to be as compact and efficient as possible. Therefore, a diffusion-bonded plate heat exchanger (DBHE) with mini channels was developed and manufactured. This DBHE was tested to gain data of the transferable heat power and the pressure loss. A multipurpose facility has been built at Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme (IKE) for various experimental investigations on supercritical CO2, which is in operation now. It consists of a closed loop where the CO2 is compressed to supercritical state and delivered to a test section in which the experiments are run. The test facility is designed to carry out experimental investigations with CO2 mass flows up to 0.111 kg/s, pressures up to 12 MPa, and temperatures up to 150 °C. This paper describes the development and setup of the facility as well as the first experimental investigation.

Pre-design of an innovative passive decay heat removal system for ATRIUM AMR-SFR

2021 ◽  
Vol 378 ◽  
pp. 111259
Author(s):  
A. Pantano ◽  
P. Gauthe ◽  
M. Errigo ◽  
P. Sciora
Keyword(s):  
Heat Removal ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

scholarly journals BWR decay heat removal system appraisal

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Kelly ◽  
R. C. Erdmann
Keyword(s):  
Heat Removal ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

S-CO2 Turbine Design for Decay Heat Removal System of Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong Kuk Cho ◽  
Jekyoung Lee ◽  
Jeong Ik Lee ◽  
Jae Eun Cha
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Fast Reactor ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Nuclear Reactors ◽  
Heat Removal ◽  
Design Code ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Turbine Design ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

A Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) has receiving attention as one of the promising next generation nuclear reactors because it can recycle the spent nuclear fuel produced from the current commercial nuclear reactors and accomplish higher thermal efficiency than the current commercial nuclear reactors. However, after shutdown of the nuclear reactor core, the accumulated fission products of the SFR also decay and release heat via radiation within the reactor. To remove this residual heat, a decay heat removal system (DHRS) with supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) as the working fluid is suggested with a turbocharger system which achieves passive operational capability. However, for designing this system an improved S-CO2 turbine design methodology should be suggested because the existing methodology for designing the S-CO2 Brayton cycle has focused only on the compressor design near the critical point. To develop a S-CO2 turbine design methodology, the non-dimensional number based design and the 1D mean line design method were modified and suggested. The design methodology was implemented into the developed code and the code results were compared with existing turbine experimental data. The data were collected under air and S-CO2 environment. The developed code in this research showed a reasonable agreement with the experimental data. Finally using the design code, the turbocharger design for the suggested DHRS and prediction of the off design performance were carried out. As further works, more effort will be put it to expand the S-CO2 turbine test data for validating the design code and methodology.

scholarly journals Analysis on inadvertent operation of decay heat removal system in NuScale reactor

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susyadi ◽  
Andi S. Ekariansyah ◽  
Hendro Tjahjono ◽  
D. T. Sony Tjahyani
Keyword(s):  
Heat Removal ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of an innovative decay heat removal system for lead-cooled fast reactors

2016 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 168-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Giannetti ◽  
Damiano Vitale Di Maio ◽  
Antonio Naviglio ◽  
Gianfranco Caruso
Keyword(s):  
Heat Removal ◽  
Hydraulic Analysis ◽  
Fast Reactors ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Thermal Hydraulic Analysis ◽  
Removal System

Feasibility Investigation of the Decay Heat Removal Capability Using the Concept of a Thermosyphon in the Liquid Metal Reactor

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeon-Sik Kim ◽  
Yoon-Sub Sim ◽  
Eui-Kwang Kim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Liquid Metal ◽  
Heat Removal ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Decay Heat ◽  
Removal Capacity ◽  
Liquid Metal Reactor ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Heat Removal System ◽  
Removal System

A new design concept for a decay heat removal system in a liquid metal reactor is proposed. The new design utilizes a thermosyphon to enhance the heat removal capacity and its heat transfer characteristics are analyzed against the current PSDRS (Passive Safety Decay heat Removal System) in the KALIMER (Korea Advanced LIquid MEtal Reactor) design. The preliminary analysis results show that the new design with a thermosyphon yields substantial increase of 20∼40% in the decay heat removal capacity compared to the current design that do not have the thermosyphon. The new design reduces the temperature rise in the cooling air of the system and helps the surrounding structure in maintaining its mechanical integrity for long term operation at an accident. Also the analysis revealed the characteristics of the interactions among various heat transfer modes in the new design.

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