超临界水冷混合堆快谱区组件物理——热工分析

提出了超临界水冷混合堆快谱区多层燃料组件设计方案.应用MCNP程序为该组件建立计算模型,并进行了相应的物理计算;同时运用子通道分析程序STAFAS对多层燃料组件子通道进行了初步的稳态热工分析.计算结果表明:超临界水冷混合堆快谱区多层燃料组件燃料转换比超过1.0,并且获得负的冷却剂空泡反应性系数;燃料包壳表面最高温度约为595℃,低于设计准则规定的上限值,同时组件各子通道出口冷却剂温度均匀性较好.通过对燃料棒径敏感性分析可知,较大棒径组件燃料转换比较大,但也会导致热通道包壳表面温度峰值升高.     

基于SCWR堆芯结构的子通道程序开发与应用

为能够对超临界水堆（SCWR）堆芯进行子通道分析,开发了新的子通道分析程序SABER。该程序在COBRA程序的基础上改进了网格结构和热传导模型,加入了新的边界条件和水物性模块,以适用于SCWR慢谱燃料组件的子通道分析。为评估程序的适用性,采用该程序对SCWR堆芯概念设计中的慢谱燃料组件进行子通道建模,并进行稳态计算。结果表明,该程序能够用于SCWR堆芯的子通道计算分析,并较好地解决了慢谱组件计算中慢化通道和冷却通道间的热耦合及逆向流动的模拟问题。     

混合能谱超临界水堆堆芯热工-物理性能分析

针对一种新型的超临界水堆设计方案——混合能谱超临界水堆（SCWR-M）进行分析。混合能谱超临界水堆包括热谱区和快谱区两部分,分别布置在堆芯的外部与内部。它在继承了热谱与快谱超临界堆芯设计优点的同时,有效地克服了两者的不足。对于热谱区,冷却剂与慢化剂同向流动,大幅降低了燃料包壳的表面温度和组件的机械加工难度;对于快谱区,采用多层燃料组件和较大的栅距棒径比p/d,可得到较高的燃料转换比和较小的冷却剂负反应性系数。本工作采用自主开发的基于子通道分析和三维物理计算的耦合程序,对混合能谱超临界水堆的热工性能和中子物理性能（包括燃耗性能）进行研究。初步的耦合分析结果表明了混合能谱超临界水堆设计方案的可行性。     

超临界水冷堆环形燃料组件核热耦合分析

在超临界水冷堆预概念设计中,组件设计是十分重要的,将影响堆芯性能。超临界水冷堆中水密度变化剧烈的特性要求必须进行核热耦合分析。从中子学及热工性能角度,使用三维核热耦合程序对环形燃料组件进行了优化设计。应用中子学计算程序FENNEL-N对环形燃料组件进行三维扩散计算,可得到组件内单棒功率分布,应用热工计算程序SUBSC对组件进行子通道分析。在计算过程中,分析了燃料棒间距及燃料棒与组件壁盒之间的间隙对组件性能的影响。计算结果显示,增大棒间距和棒壁间隙能提高组件k_inf,但会增大组件内功率峰因子;子通道受热不均匀性对组件热工性能影响较大,通过加入定位格架的方式能展平冷却剂出口温度,降低最大包壳温度。对环形燃料组件的安全分析表明,从中子学角度该组件是安全的。     

超临界水堆子通道分析

超临界水堆作为6种第4代未来堆型中唯一的水冷堆,具有一些独特的特点,受到了广泛重视。本工作以上海核工程研究设计院的常规压水堆子通道程序为基础,开发编制了适用于超临界水堆的子通道程序,并对典型带有慢化剂水棒的超临界水堆燃料组件进行了模拟计算,得到了堆芯子通道内的温度、燃料棒包壳温度、表面传热系数等参数的分布规律。此外,研究了不同超临界流体换热关系式对计算结果的影响,结果显示,各传热关系式的计算结果存在一定差异。     

超临界水冷堆燃料棒性能分析程序适用性研究

根据超临界水冷堆(SCWR)燃料棒的热工水力特点,基于压水堆(PWR)燃料棒性能分析程序的理论模型和计算方法研究燃料包壳的物性模型和超临界水(SCW)与燃料包壳的传热模型,建立适用于SCWR燃料棒的性能分析程序——SCWRFPA。采用SCWRFPA和可分析SCWR的热工水力子通道程序ATHAS分别对1/8欧洲超临界轻水堆(HPLWR)燃料组件燃料棒进行计算,其计算结果基本一致。     

超临界水冷堆双排燃料组件子通道分析

研究基于Cobra-IV程序,开发了适用于超临界水冷堆燃料组件分析的子通道程序.针对超临界水冷堆慢谱双排组件,进行了稳态计算,获取了相关组件热工水力参数.在此基础上,针对单一通道进行了瞬态计算,分析了燃料棒线功率变化和冷却剂流量变化条件下,超临界水冷堆燃料组件的流动和传热的动态响应,为超临界水冷堆组件的优化设计提供了参考.     

基于燃料棒层面核热耦合的超临界水堆堆芯研究

针对超临界水堆堆芯内流体物性分布非均匀性显著、核热反馈强烈的特点,建立了适用于超临界水堆运行环境的、基于燃料棒层面的精细化堆芯中子学/热工水力耦合方法,开发了子通道程序NCEDSCWR、节块扩散计算程序MRAPS、多功能程序COUPLE,结合西屋公司组件能谱计算程序PARAGON,构建了堆芯中子学/热工耦合分析程序系统SCAP。以具有121盒燃料组件的超临界水堆堆芯进行模拟分析,研究了堆芯三维功率分布和流体物性分布的特点以及反应性参数与重要同位素密度等随燃耗的变化规律。结果表明,本文提出的精细化核热耦合方法和开发的程序系统可以应用于超临界水堆堆芯的研究与分析,相关研究结果对超临界水堆堆芯设计具有一定的指导意义。     

PT-SCWR燃料组件的物理热工耦合分析

利用蒙特卡罗程序(MCNP)和子通道程序ATHAS对压力管式超临界水堆(PT-SCWR)燃料组件进行物理热工耦合分析;这种耦合方式是合理有效的。分析结果表明:PT-SCWR组件中燃料富集度的分布对燃料组件的径向功率分布有很大影响,通过调节各圈棒束的燃料富集度,可以有效地改善径向功率分布;慢化剂厚度对棒束轴向功率分布有明显影响,当慢化剂厚度为25 cm时,轴向功率分布最接近余弦形状。     

超临界水堆燃料棒流致振动简化模型

在超临界水堆中,当超临界水流过带有绕丝的燃料棒时可能诱发其发生振动,使得燃料包壳发生疲劳现象。带有的接触的非线性有限元模型使得计算量大大增加,而且其计算精度仍有待实验验证。本文针对超临界水堆流致振动实验,将绕丝的影响简化为弹簧,建立燃料棒流致振动的简化模型,并通过有限元模型对燃料棒的固有特性进行分析,验证了模型的正确性。最后,以功率谱对模型加载,求得了超临界水堆燃料棒的位移响应和1δ解。     

Core and sub-channel analysis of SCWR with mixed spectrum core

The SCWR core concept SCWR-M is proposed based on a mixed spectrum and consists of a thermal zone and a fast zone. This core design combines the merits of both thermal and fast SCWR cores, and minimizes their shortcomings. In the thermal zone co-current flow mode is applied with an exit temperature slightly over the pseudo-critical point. The downward flow in the thermal fuel assembly will provide an effective cooling of the fuel rods. In the forthcoming fast zone, a sufficiently large negative coolant void reactivity coefficient and high conversion ratio can be achieved by the axial multi-layer arrangement of fuel rods. Due to the high coolant inlet temperature over the pseudo-critical point, the heat transfer deterioration phenomenon will be eliminated in this fast spectrum zone. And the low water density in the fast zone enables a hard neutron spectrum, also with a wide lattice structure, which minimizes the effect of non-uniformity of the circumferential heat transfer and reduces the cladding peak temperature.     

CFD analyses in tight-lattice subchannels and seven-rod bundle geometries of a Super Fast Reactor

This paper presents CFD analyses in heat unsymmetric subchannels and heat symmetric seven-rod bundle geometries of a Super Fast Reactor (Super FR) fuel assembly using STAR-CD. The purpose of CFD analyses in heat unsymmetric subchannels is to evaluate the effect of the power differences on the heat transfer in subchannels of the Super Fast Reactor. For heat symmetric seven-rod bundles, the effects of the gap clearance between the fuel rod and the assembly wall and the displacement of the fuel rod on the circumferential temperature distributions and Maximum Cladding Surface Temperature (MCST) are analyzed. The results show that larger power difference between fuel rods gives larger circumferential temperature difference of the hottest fuel rods. Considering cross flow between edge and ordinary subchannels, 1 mm gap between the fuel rod and the assembly wall is better for small MCST although the circumferential temperature difference in edge subchannel is large. MCST increases exponentially with the displacement. The relative error of displacement should be less than 1% if the allowable increment of MCST due to displacement is less than 6 °C.     

钠冷快堆六角形组件换热特性分析

钠冷快堆乏燃料组件在转运过程中,会暴露在传热性能较差的氩气环境中。为保证燃料组件温度在转运过程中低于安全限值,本研究基于37棒燃料组件开展了在氩气环境下的实验研究及数值模拟计算。研究结果表明：可采用等效导热法对组件内绕丝模型进行简化,简化模型能满足计算精度要求。将计算结果与实验研究结果进行对比分析,结果表明数值模拟方法能较好模拟组件在氩气环境下的换热。六角形燃料组件在氩气中的换热分析中,辐射换热具有重要的影响,实验工况下辐射换热占总换热量的36%～57%。     

压力管式超临界水堆极限事故下“无堆芯熔化”概念评估

在自主研发的事故分析程序SCTRAN的基础上,开发并验证了二维导热模型和辐射换热模型,并将改进后的SCTRAN应用于加拿大压力管式超临界水堆在失水事故（LOCA）叠加丧失紧急堆芯冷却系统（LOECC）事故中的堆芯安全评估,并对燃料棒到慢化剂之间的传热效率以及关键的影响因素进行了评估。计算结果表明,在LOCA叠加LOECC工况下,燃料棒到燃料通道的辐射换热和燃料棒到蒸汽的自然对流换热能够有效导出反应堆的衰变余热,最高功率的燃料组件内、外圈燃料棒的最高包壳温度分别为1278℃和1192℃,均低于不锈钢包壳的熔化温度,因此整个事故过程中不会发生堆芯熔化。      

Analysis of radiant heat transfer in a BWR fuel assembly

A computer code ‘CIDER’ was developed which analyzes radiant heat transfer in a BWR fuel rod bundle under loss of coolant conditions. In the code, (1) a channel box and fuel rods are considered to be gray bodies, (2) reflection and absorption of radiation beams in the atmosphere is neglected, (3) a fuel rod is approximated by a regular polygonal rod, and (4) radiant heat flux is calculated considering circumferential temperature distribution on each fuel rod surface, which is determined from radial and circumferential heat conduction calculations in a fuel rod. It was found that the conventional model with uniform cladding temperature overestimated heat flux about 30% in a typical situation, or correspondingly underestimated the temperature rises.     

Heat transfer in turbulent longitudinal flow through unbaffled assemblies of fuel rods

A numerical analysis of heat transfer in turbulent longitudinal flow through assemblies of unbaffled fuel rods is presented. The solution applies to triangular or rectangular arrays of fuel rods with fully developed velocity and temperature profiles, for fluids with Prandtl number 1 and « 1. In the case of liquid metals, the thermal resistance of the cladding and bond are considered, but the turbulent heat transport component is neglected. For common liquids the circumferential turbulent heat transfer is considered. Results are compared in the range of dimensionless rod spacing of 1.0–1.6. Theoretical predictions and experimental results of other authors dealing with the problem show relatively good agreement.     

CFD analysis of heat transfer in subchannels of a Super Fast Reactor

This paper presents CFD analyses of heat transfer in subchannels of a Super Fast Reactor fuel assembly. Analyses are concentrated on the circumferential temperature distribution on the cladding outer surface because the Maximum Cladding Surface Temperature (MCST) has been a crucial design parameter to evaluate fuel cladding integrity of the Super Fast Reactor. Speziale non-linear high Re k-? model, which can reproduce the anisotropic turbulence flow in non-circular flow channels, with two-layer near-wall treatment is adopted. The results show that heat conduction in the cladding should be considered in the CFD analyses. Larger circumferential temperature gradient occurs on the cladding surface in the edge and corner subchannels than that in the ordinary subchannel because of their special geometries causing larger heterogeneity of mass flow rate distribution inside the subchannels. Improved subchannel configurations to reduce the circumferential temperature gradient are proposed. This study will be a good guideline to the future core design improvement.     

数值反应堆堆芯通道级三维热工水力程序CorTAF开发及初步验证

堆芯是核动力系统的核心部件,其完整性是反应堆安全运行的重要前提。传统核反应堆堆芯热工水力分析方法无法满足未来先进核动力系统的高精度模拟需求。本文依托开源CFD平台OpenFOAM,针对压水堆堆芯棒束结构特点建立了冷却剂流动换热模型、燃料棒导热模型和耦合换热模型,开发了一套基于有限体积法的压水堆全堆芯通道级热工水力特性分析程序CorTAF。选取GE3×3、Weiss和PNL2×6燃料组件流动换热实验开展模型验证,计算结果与实验数据基本符合,表明该程序适用于棒束燃料组件内冷却剂流动换热特性预测。本工作对压水堆堆芯安全分析工具开发具有参考和借鉴意义。     

转运通道中燃料组件沸腾传热的试验研究

在压水堆换料过程中,乏燃料组件要通过水下通道完成从反应堆厂房到乏燃料水池的运输。为获得乏燃料组件在换热条件较恶劣的承载器顶角区域的传热特性,开展了试验研究,测量得到了2 400～20 000 W/m²不同热流密度下承载器顶角区域3根燃料棒顶部的沸腾换热系数,并拟合得到沸腾传热关联式。研究结果可为今后工程应用中评估燃料组件在转运过程中的热工安全状态和表面最高温度提供参考。     

Modele de comportement mecanique d'element combustible dans un assemblage PWR

Irradiated fuel in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) frequently displays rod bowing, due to two kinds of assymmetry. The first originates in the fabrication of the sheath, causing eccentricity, ovalization and thickness non-uniformity. The other comes from in-pile fuel element conditions such as off-line grids compressing the rods, circumferential thermal gradients on the sheath, and pellet-clad interactions.The MAC code was developed for parametric studies of some of these effects. It shows that:In the case of fuel rods undergoing compressive forces by the spacer grids the usual friction forces are unable to bow the rods significantly, except when the rods are blocked by the spacer grid springs.In some assembly configurations, the temperature difference between adjacent rods is able to bow them, requiring an increase in number of spacer grids.Localized pellet-clad interactions may cause significant bowing, particularly when they occur near the grids.