Modelling of Passive Heat Removal Systems: A Review with Reference to the Framatome BWR Reactor KERENA: Part II

René Manthey; Frances Viereckl; Amirhosein Moonesi Shabestary; Yu Zhang; Wei Ding; Dirk Lucas; Christoph Schuster; Stephan Leyer; Antonio Hurtado; Uwe Hampel

doi:10.3390/en13010109

Energies (Dec 2019)

Modelling of Passive Heat Removal Systems: A Review with Reference to the Framatome BWR Reactor KERENA: Part II

René Manthey,
Frances Viereckl,
Amirhosein Moonesi Shabestary,
Yu Zhang,
Wei Ding,
Dirk Lucas,
Christoph Schuster,
Stephan Leyer,
Antonio Hurtado,
Uwe Hampel

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René Manthey: Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Frances Viereckl: Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Amirhosein Moonesi Shabestary: Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 01328 Dresden, Germany
Yu Zhang: Faculty of Civil and Construction Engineering, Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, 94469 Deggendorf, Germany
Wei Ding: Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 01328 Dresden, Germany
Dirk Lucas: Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 01328 Dresden, Germany
Christoph Schuster: Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Stephan Leyer: Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, 4365 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Antonio Hurtado: Chair of Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Uwe Hampel: Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 01328 Dresden, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13010109
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
p. 109

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Passive safety systems are an important feature of currently designed and constructed nuclear power plants. They operate independent of external power supply and manual interventions and are solely driven by thermal gradients and gravitational force. This brings up new needs for performance and reliably assessment. This paper provides a review on fundamental approaches to model and analyze the performance of passive heat removal systems exemplified for the passive heat removal chain of the KERENA boiling water reactor concept developed by Framatome. We discuss modeling concepts for one-dimensional system codes such as ATHLET, RELAP and TRACE and furthermore for computational fluid dynamics codes. Part I dealt with numerical and experimental methods for modeling of condensation inside the emergency condenser and on the containment cooling condenser. This second part deals with boiling and two-phase flow instabilities.

Published in Energies

ISSN: 1996-1073 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology
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