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Experimental investigation of the impulse gas injection into liquid and the use of experimental data for verification of the HYDRA-IBRAE/LM thermohydraulic code. / Lobanov, P. D.; Usov, E. V.; Butov, A. A. et al.
In: Thermal Engineering, Vol. 64, No. 10, 01.10.2017, p. 770-776.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Experimental investigation of the impulse gas injection into liquid and the use of experimental data for verification of the HYDRA-IBRAE/LM thermohydraulic code
AU - Lobanov, P. D.
AU - Usov, E. V.
AU - Butov, A. A.
AU - Pribaturin, N. A.
AU - Mosunova, N. A.
AU - Strizhov, V. F.
AU - Chukhno, V. I.
AU - Kutlimetov, A. E.
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - Experiments with impulse gas injection into model coolants, such as water or the Rose alloy, performed at the Novosibirsk Branch of the Nuclear Safety Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, are described. The test facility and the experimental conditions are presented in details. The dependence of coolant pressure on the injected gas flow and the time of injection was determined. The purpose of these experiments was to verify the physical models of thermohydraulic codes for calculation of the processes that could occur during the rupture of tubes of a steam generator with heavy liquid metal coolant or during fuel rod failure in water-cooled reactors. The experimental results were used for verification of the HYDRA-IBRAE/LM system thermohydraulic code developed at the Nuclear Safety Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. The models of gas bubble transportation in a vertical channel that are used in the code are described in detail. A two-phase flow pattern diagram and correlations for prediction of friction of bubbles and slugs as they float up in a vertical channel and of two-phase flow friction factor are presented. Based on the results of simulation of these experiments using the HYDRA-IBRAE/LM code, the arithmetic mean error in predicted pressures was calculated, and the predictions were analyzed considering the uncertainty in the input data, geometry of the test facility, and the error of the empirical correlation. The analysis revealed major factors having a considerable effect on the predictions. The recommendations are given on updating of the experimental results and improvement of the models used in the thermohydraulic code.
AB - Experiments with impulse gas injection into model coolants, such as water or the Rose alloy, performed at the Novosibirsk Branch of the Nuclear Safety Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, are described. The test facility and the experimental conditions are presented in details. The dependence of coolant pressure on the injected gas flow and the time of injection was determined. The purpose of these experiments was to verify the physical models of thermohydraulic codes for calculation of the processes that could occur during the rupture of tubes of a steam generator with heavy liquid metal coolant or during fuel rod failure in water-cooled reactors. The experimental results were used for verification of the HYDRA-IBRAE/LM system thermohydraulic code developed at the Nuclear Safety Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. The models of gas bubble transportation in a vertical channel that are used in the code are described in detail. A two-phase flow pattern diagram and correlations for prediction of friction of bubbles and slugs as they float up in a vertical channel and of two-phase flow friction factor are presented. Based on the results of simulation of these experiments using the HYDRA-IBRAE/LM code, the arithmetic mean error in predicted pressures was calculated, and the predictions were analyzed considering the uncertainty in the input data, geometry of the test facility, and the error of the empirical correlation. The analysis revealed major factors having a considerable effect on the predictions. The recommendations are given on updating of the experimental results and improvement of the models used in the thermohydraulic code.
KW - calculation code
KW - heavy liquid metal coolant
KW - HYDRA-IBRAE/LM
KW - Rose’s alloy
KW - two-phase processes
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029749239&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1134/S004060151710007X
DO - 10.1134/S004060151710007X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029749239
VL - 64
SP - 770
EP - 776
JO - Thermal Engineering (English translation of Teploenergetika)
JF - Thermal Engineering (English translation of Teploenergetika)
SN - 0040-6015
IS - 10
ER -
ID: 9906747