CFD evaluation on the thermohydraulic characteristics of tube support plates in steam generator
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B. Zhang
Abstract
The integrity and thermal hydraulic characteristics of steam generator are of great concern in the nuclear industry. The tube support plates (TSP), one of the most important components of the steam generator, not only support the heat transfer tubes, but also affect the flow dynamic and thermal hydraulic characteristics of the secondary-side flow inside the steam generator. Different working conditions, ranging from single-phase adiabatic condition to two-phase high-void boiling condition, are simulated and analyzed. Calculated void fraction, under simple geometry, agrees well with the experiment data whilst the simulated heat transfer coefficient is tremendously close to the empirical correlation. Temperature, void fraction, and velocity distributions in different locations show reasonable distribution. The simulation results indicate that TSP can enhance the heat transfer in the secondary side of the steam generator. On the top of TSP, with the increase in cross-section flow area, the back-flow phenomenon occurs, which might lead to the contamination of precipitation.
Kurzfassung
Auf der Sekundärseite von Dampferzeugern sind zur Halterung der Rohre der Rohrbündel Stützplatten eingebaut. Neben dem Stützen der Rohre beeinflussen diese Stützplatten auch die Strömung an der Außenseite der Rohre. Zur Berechnung dieses Einflusses wurden CFD-Analysen durchgeführt, deren Ergebnisse in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt werden. Dabei wurde die Bandbreite von einphasiger adiabater Strömung hin zu zweiphasiger Strömung mit hohem Dampfgehalt und Sieden untersucht. Die Rechenergebnisse wurden mit vorliegenden experimentellen Daten und Korrelationen verglichen. Dabei zeigten berechnete und experimentelle Dampfgehalte eine gute Übereinstimmung, die Verteilungen von Temperatur, Dampfgehalt und Geschwindigkeit werden als nachvollziehbar beschrieben. Zusammenfassend wird der Einfluss der Stützplatten auf die Strömung als strömungsverbessernd gekennzeichnet. Allerdings können im oberen Bereich der Stützplatten mit dem zunehmenden Strömungsquerschnitt Rückströmungen auftreten, die aufgrund der erhöhten Blasenkonzentration zu lokalem Materialverschleiß infolge Korrosion führen können.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Contents/Inhalt
- Contents
- Summaries/Kurzfassungen
- Summaries
- Editorial
- Challenges in reactor core thermal-hydraulics: subchannel analysis, CFD modeling and rod bundle CHF
- Technical Contributions/Fachbeiträge
- Subchannel analysis and correlation of the Rod Bundle Heat Transfer (RBHT) steam cooling experimental data
- CFD analysis on mixing effects of spacer grids with different dimples and sizes for advanced fuel assemblies
- An experimental investigation on dynamics and heat transfer associated with a single droplet impacting on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost point temperature
- Study on effects of mixing vane grids on coolant temperature distribution by subchannel analysis
- Reflood experiments in rod bundles with flow blockages due to clad ballooning
- The effect of spacer grid critical component on pressure drop under both single and two phase flow conditions
- Numerical method improvement for a subchannel code
- Numerical investigation on the characteristics of two-phase flow in fuel assemblies with spacer grid
- Effects of axial power shapes on CHF locations in a single tube and in rod bundle assemblies
- CFD evaluation on the thermohydraulic characteristics of tube support plates in steam generator
- Analysis of heat transfer under high heat flux nucleate boiling conditions
- Review of the correlation developments and a new concept based on mixing mechanism for heat transfer enhancement of spacer grids
- A comparison of the CFD simulation results in 5 × 5 sub-channels with mixing grids using different turbulence models
- Simulation of isothermal multi-phase fuel-coolant interaction using MPS method with GPU acceleration
- RELAP5 investigation on subchannel flow instability
