In the third generation pressurized water reactor AP1000 plant, the Automatic Depressurization System (ADS) is one of the most important passive safety system. As the steam continues to discharge into the IRWST, the high-temperature and high-pressure steam condenses in the IRWST intensely and rapidly. In the present work, multi-hole spargers DCC experimental bench has been built to study the condensation and mixing phenomena in the accidental depressurization events in AP1000. The key parameters including the temperature, velocity, and flow patterns are monitored by the thermocouples, PIV technique, and high speed camera, etc. Based on the experimental results, the heat transfer characteristics of the steam-jet Direct Contact Condensation (DCC) in the ADS depressurization process were analyzed. The experimental comparison shows that the spraying steam behaviors are closely related to the steam mass flux, which determined the ejection patterns. The spraying steam is condensed rapidly in the core region with the flow regime locating in chugging, transitional chugging, and stable ejection stages. The 88-hole experimental results fit well with Fukuda’s condensation oscillation correlations, whereas the 2-hole experimental results are slightly lower than the values predicted by traditional single hole correlation.
A Study on the Condensation Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Loop Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger for High Speed Rotary Shaft Cooling
