Abstract:
The steam direct contact condensation of high-temperature steam in sub-cooled water is an important way to reduce the temperature and pressure in the primary circuit in the third generation of advanced pressurized water reactors such as AP1000 and CAP1400 in the event of accidental overpressure. Based on the system codes of RELAP5 and COSINE, the process of saturated steam injecting into large volume sub-cooled water through a double-hole nozzle was modeled, calculated and analyzed. The temperature distributions along the axial direction of the high-temperature steam ejected from the nozzle were obtained. At the same time, the visual experiments of steam jet condensation were performed. The thermocouple matrix and high-speed camera were used to measure the key thermal-hydraulic parameters to obtain the temperature distributions along the steam plume and the flow patterns of the steam jet, which were used to verify the accuracy of the system code to simulate the process of steam spraying and condensation. The results show that the system code RELAP5 can basically simulate the general trend of ADS steam condensation process under the simplified model. The average error of the simulation results is 2.97% compared with the experimental results. In addition, the COSINE code was used to further modify and improve the model of the spraying condensation process. Considering the influence of the overall flow in the water tank on the condensation characteristics, the simulation results fit well with the experimental results, with an average error of 1.89%. However, the actual double-hole spraying process is complex and has obvious three-dimensional characteristics, so the relevant condensation heat transfer model in the system code still needs to be further improved to simulate its local condensation characteristics more accurately.