Developments Toward Mechanistic Modeling of Critical Heat Flux on a CANDU Calandria Tube Following Pressure Tube Contact
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Abstract
Heavy water moderator surrounding each fuel channel is one of the important safety features in CANDU reactors since it provides an in situ passive heat sink for the fuel in situations where other engineered means of heat removal from fuel channels have failed. In a critical-break loss-of-coolant-accident scenario, fuel cooling becomes severely degraded because of rapid flow reduction in the affected flow pass of the heat transport system. This can result in pressure tubes (PTs) experiencing significant heatup during early stages of the accident when coolant pressure is still high, thereby causing uniform thermal creep strain (ballooning) of the PT in contact with its calandria tube (CT). The contact of the hot PT with the CT causes rapid redistribution of stored heat from the PT to the CT and a large heat flux spike from the CT to the moderator fluid. For conditions where subcooling of the moderator fluid is low, this heat flux spike can cause dryout of the CT. This can detrimentally affect channel integrity if the CT postdryout temperature becomes sufficiently high to result in continued thermal creep strain deformation of both the PT and the CT. The focus of this work is to develop a mechanistic model to predict critical heat flux (CHF) on the CT surface following a contact with its PT. A COMSOL multiphysics model using a two-dimensional transient fluid-thermal analysis of the CT surface undergoing heatup is used to predict the flow and temperature profiles on the CT surface. A mechanistic CHF model is to be proposed based on a concept of wall dry patch formation, prevention of rewetting, and subsequent dry patch spreading.
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