FRTAC超临界二氧化碳布雷顿循环瞬态模型测试

Verification of Transient Modeling of FRTAC Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle

  • 摘要: 超临界二氧化碳(SCO2)具有较好的换热能力、稳定性、安全性和经济性,是一种良好的能量转换工质,具有广阔的应用前景。将SCO2布雷顿循环运用到核能系统中,不仅可以提高热效率,还有利于实现小型化,因此SCO2动力循环系统在先进反应堆设计中被广泛关注。液态金属冷却剂反应堆系统瞬态分析软件FRTAC中开发了相应的SCO2动力循环系统的计算模块,为验证该模型计算的可靠性和准确性,采用FRTAC程序对SCO2循环系统中的关键部件及系统开展稳态和瞬态建模测试。将FRTAC程序计算结果与SCTRAN程序的计算结果进行比较,得到了与SCTRAN程序吻合度较好的数据,涡轮机等关键设备和循环回路的稳态测试结果相对偏差与SCTRAN程序相比不超过1%,瞬态测试参数变化情况高度一致,基本验证了FRTAC程序超临界二氧化碳布雷顿循环瞬态模型的正确性。

     

    Abstract: Supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO2), with its good heat transfer capability, stability, safety and economy, is a good energy conversion workhorse with broad application prospects. The application of supercritical carbon dioxide Brayton cycle to nuclear energy systems not only improves thermal efficiency, but also facilitates miniaturization. Sodium-cooled fast reactors and lead-cooled fast reactors, among six generation Ⅳ systems proposed by the Generation Ⅳ Nuclear Energy Forum (GENERAF), also recommend the use of SCO2 as a Brayton cycle workhorse. So SCO2 power cycle systems have been widely noticed in advanced reactor design. Fast reactor transient analysis code (FRTAC) is a system analysis program developed independently by China Institute of Atomic Energy, which can be used for steady-state and transient simulations of liquid metal cooled reactors. In order to further satisfy the needs of the program, a corresponding calculation module for the SCO2 power cycle system was developed in the FRTAC program, which used the interpolation method to obtain the CO2 physical property library, the quasi-steady-state method to predict the mechanical behavior of the turbine, and the assumptions such as the uniform distribution of the flow in the flow channel to model the printed-circuit plate heat exchanger, and empirical relational formulas to calculate the frictional heat transfer of SCO2. In order to verify the reliability and accuracy of the model calculation, FRTAC was used to test the steady-state and transient modeling of the key components and systems in the SCO2 cycle system, such as the turbine, compressor, and printed circuit plate heat exchanger. For single-module testing of key components, steady-state testing of one turbine, two compressors, and three return heaters was performed, and flow reduction transient calculations were performed for one of the return heaters. For system testing of the recompression Brayton cycle circuit, steady-state, 5% load increase and decrease, and 5% cooling water flow increase and decrease transient calculations were performed. Comparing the FRTAC program calculation results with those of SCTRAN program, data with good agreement with SCTRAN program were obtained, and the deviation of the steady-state test of key equipment such as the turbine and the recirculation loop was no more than 1% compared with that of SCTRAN program, and the relative deviation is within the acceptable range. The change trend of each transient test key parameter is highly consistent with SCTRAN program, and the deviation of parameters before and after the transient change is small, which basically verifies the correctness of the transient model of FRTAC program SCO2 Brayton cycle. It is demonstrated that FRTAC program is primed to analyze steady-state and transient conditions in the SCO2 Brayton cycle.

     

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