乏燃料连续溶解过程的动态仿真模型研究

Study on Dynamic Simulation Model of Continuous Dissolution Process of Spent Fuel

  • 摘要: 本文通过分析乏燃料芯块与硝酸之间溶解反应的质量传递过程,以及溶解液中溶质的质量传递过程,基于质量衡算得到了乏燃料芯块溶解过程的动态溶解模型,并利用Comsol和Matlab软件建立了求解溶解模型的仿真程序。仿真结果表明,在温度90 ℃、硝酸进料浓度6 mol/L、进料流率11 L/min、回流量35 L/min的工艺条件下,溶解液需要270 min达到出料要求,而达到平衡所需时间为2 000 min。达到平衡后的溶解液出料中,铀浓度为253.23 g/L、硝酸浓度为2.78 mol/L,能满足出料要求。模拟结果的全过程质量平衡计算表明,模拟结果与理论计算值的相对误差为2.57%。模拟结果中溶质浓度变化趋势与实际过程基本一致,溶解器内铀浓度总体上呈先迅速升高、后较快减小、最后又缓慢减小,而硝酸浓度总体变化趋势则与铀浓度的变化趋势相反。以上结果表明,本研究所建立的回转式连续溶解器动态溶解仿真模型能较好地描述该溶解器中乏燃料的实际溶解行为,能为实际生产过程中乏燃料溶解工艺段提供仿真数据支撑。

     

    Abstract: Spent fuel reprocessing is one of the most critical links in the process of closed nuclear fuel cycle process. Carrying out computer simulation research on this process and establishing its dynamic simulation model can carry out process analysis and optimization with less human and material resources and in a more general scope. In this paper, by analyzing the mass transfer process of the dissolution reaction between spent fuel pellets and nitric acid and the mass transfer process of solute in the solution, a dynamic dissolution model of spent fuel pellets dissolution process was obtained based on mass balance calculation. The model includes three parts: chemical reaction module, solute transfer module and solution flow field analysis module, which are respectively used to calculate the mass transfer caused by chemical reaction, the mass transfer caused by the convection and diffusion of liquid in the liquid phase and the analysis of the flow state of fluid in the solution system. The turbulent flow state of the dissolved liquid in the dissolver was simulated by Comsol software, and the flow field cloud diagram of the dissolved liquid flow was obtained, which provided the analysis data of the liquid phase flow state for the established dynamic dissolution model of the spent fuel pellet dissolution process. The numerical simulation program for solving the real-time simulation model of spent fuel pellet dissolution process was established by using Matlab software, and the feeding dynamic simulation of spent fuel dissolution process in continuous dissolver was carried out under the process conditions of 90 ℃, nitric acid feed concentration of 6 mol/L, feed flow rate of 11 L/min and return flow of 35 L/min. The change trend of the simulation results is basically consistent with the actual process, and the dissolution process needs about 2 000 minutes to reach dynamic equilibrium. After equilibrium, the concentration of nitric acid in the solution discharge is 2.78 mol/L and the concentration of uranium is 253.23 g/L. The relative error of material balance calculation of uranium in the whole dissolution process is generally in an acceptable range. When it reaches equilibrium, the relative error of overall mass balance calculation is only 2.57%. The simulation results show that the dynamic dissolution simulation model of the rotary continuous dissolver established in this study can better describe the actual dissolution behavior of the spent fuel in the dissolver, and provide simulation data support for the spent fuel dissolution process in the actual production process.

     

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