Counter-Current Flow Limitation (CCFL) is of importance for PWR safety analyses in several accident scenarios connected with loss of coolant. Basing on the experiences obtained during a first series of hot leg tests now new experiments on counter-current flow limitation were conducted in the TOPFLOW pressure vessel. The test series comprises air-water tests at 1 and 2 bar as well as steam-water tests at 10, 25 and 50 bar. During the experiments the flow structure was observed along the hot leg model using a high-speed camera and web-cams. In addition pressure was measured at several positions along the horizontal part and the water levels in the reactor-simulator and steam-generator-simulator tanks were determined.
This report documents the experimental setup including the description of operational and special measuring techniques, the experimental procedure and the data obtained.
From these data flooding curves were obtained basing on the Wallis parameter. The results show a slight shift of the curves in dependency of the pressure. In addition a slight decrease of the slope was found with increasing pressure. Additional investigations concern the effects of hysteresis and the frequencies of liquid slugs. The latter ones show a dependency on pressure and the mass flow rate of the injected water.
The data are available for CFD-model development and validation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:d120-qucosa-216094 |
| Date | 15 February 2017 |
| Creators | Beyer, Matthias, Lucas, Dirk, Pietruske, Heiko, Szalinski, Lutz |
| Contributors | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, |
| Publisher | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:report |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Relation | dcterms:isPartOf:Wissenschaftlich-Technische Berichte / Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf; HZDR-076 |
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