
237
ENSI Erfahrungs- und Forschungsbericht 2011
Author und Co-author(s) T. Lind, D. Suckow, A. Dehbi, S. Güntay, S. Danner,
S. Deshpande
Institution Paul Scherrer Institut
Address 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
T
e
l., E-mail
, Inter
net address
+4
1 (0)56 31
0 21 11, te
rttaliisa.l
[email protected], www
.psi.ch
Duration of project September 1, 2008 to August 31, 2011
ABSTRACT
A steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) in a
pressurized water reactor (PWR) has a poten-
tial of causing release of radioactivity into the
environment due to the possibility of the ra-
dionuclides by-passing the containment. The
release may take place as droplets of primary
coolant containing dissolved iodine during de-
sign basis accident phase, or as aerosols (par-
ticles and gas phase compounds) containing
fission products if the accident develops into a
severe accident.
For severe accidents, generally, no credit is
taken for the retention of aerosols inside the
steam generator, and consequently, the re-
lease fraction of the activity associated with
SGTR may be overestimated. In addition, un-
der design basis accident conditions in the dry
steam generator secondary side with no recir-
culation, no data exist for droplet retention.
Therefore, no retention of radioactivity in the
steam generator secondary side may be ac-
counted for under these conditions.
Based on the need for aerosol and droplet re-
tention data during a Steam Generator Tube
Rupture (SGTR) accident, Paul Scherrer Insti-
tut (PSI) established an international cost share
project called Aerosol Trapping In a Steam
Generator (ARTIST), with a continuation proj-
ect ARTIST II. In ARTIST II, experimental and
analytical work were carried out to comple-
ment the work carried out in ARTIST. The main
topics of ARTIST II were:
❚ determination of aerosol retention in the
break vicinity where most of the retention
takes place
❚ determination of the aerosol retention in
the flooded steam generator secondary side,
and improvement of the existing models for
pool scrubbing to be applicable to flooded
bundle conditions
❚ determination of the droplet retention in the
steam generator dryer and the effect of the
droplet size on retention.
In addition, several topics were investigated
as PhD work: i) determination of particle ag-
glomerate break-up upon impaction, ii) parti-
cle transport in turbulence, both analytical and
experimental approaches, and iii) determina-
tion of flow hydrodynamics in tube bundles.
In this report, we present the main conclusions
from the ARTIST II project.
ARTIST II
Aerosol Trapping in the Steam Generator
Komentarze do niniejszej Instrukcji