Characteristics of heat transfer in corrosion products deposited on the surface of pressurized water reactor fuel elementsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Applied Thermal Engineering, ISSN 1359-4311, E-ISSN 1873-5606, Vol. 257, article id 124177Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The occurrence of porous deposits on the core surface during the operation of a pressurized water reactor can seriously affect its heat transfer characteristics and increase the surface temperature of the cladding. Continued heat transfer deterioration causes subcooled boiling and boron enrichment within porous deposits, leading to axial power anomalies in the core, and the study of porous deposits is beneficial to improving the economics and safety of reactor operation. In this paper, a two-dimensional boiling unit model of a porous deposits was established using COMSOL software to couple heat conduction, darcy flow, solute transport and chemical reactions in a multiphysics field to reasonably predict the temperature field, velocity field, boric acid concentration distribution, and PH distribution within the porous deposits. On this basis, the influence of different parameters (porosity, boiling unit radius of porous deposits, heat flow density) on the maximum effective thermal conductivity, the pattern of thermal parameters (temperature, superheat, percentage of subcooled boiling, and saturation temperature) on the chimney boundary are analyzed. The results show that localized superheating, maximum boric acid concentration and subcooled boiling occur at the bottom of the porous deposits. There is a negative correlation between the porosity and the percentage of subcooled boiling area, and a positive correlation between the radius of the porous deposits and the heat flow density and the percentage of subcooled boiling area.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2024. Vol. 257, article id 124177
Keywords [en]
Porous deposits, Multiphysics field coupling, Boric acid enrichment, Heat transfer
National Category
Energy Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-353164DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124177ISI: 001300468600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85201631667OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-353164DiVA, id: diva2:1897360
Note
QC 20240912
2024-09-122024-09-122024-09-12Bibliographically approved