海洋条件下铅铋快堆螺旋管式直流蒸汽发生器热工水力特性研究

Analysis on Thermal-hydraulic Characteristic of Lead-bismuth Fast Reactor Helical Coil Once-through Steam Generator under Ocean Condition

  • 摘要: 螺旋管式直流蒸汽发生器(HCOTSG)相比于其他类型的蒸汽发生器在船只反应堆或海上平台上具有独一无二的优势。为了研究海洋条件导致的摇摆、倾斜运动对铅铋快堆HCOTSG运行的影响,一个热工水力分析程序被建立,并通过修改动量方程加入海洋条件的影响。利用该程序进行了铅铋快堆在海洋条件下的瞬态工况计算,探究了不同升潜周期、升潜幅度、升潜耦合倾斜方向、升潜耦合倾斜角度等工况下系统运行参数的变化。结果显示:随着升潜周期增大,各参数变化周期增大,变化幅度减小,升潜幅度越大,各参数变化幅度也越大。升潜耦合倾斜时倾斜方向对系统的安全具有很大影响,其中倾向x轴方向二次侧出口压力最大而传热量增加很小,对HCOTSG影响最为显著;随着倾斜角度增大,二次侧出口压力增大,传热量减小,一次侧出口温度升高,但总体影响较小。本文结果可为HCOTSG在船用铅铋快堆中的设计优化、安全评估和运行控制提供理论支持和技术参考。

     

    Abstract: Steam generators are critical core components in lead-bismuth fast reactor (LFR), playing an irreplaceable role in ensuring the safe, economical, and reliable long-term operation of the entire reactor system. As key equipment for heat exchange between the primary and secondary circuits, they directly affect the reactor’s thermal efficiency, power output stability, and overall safety margin, as they transfer the heat from nuclear fission in the primary circuit to the secondary circuit to produce high-pressure steam for power generation. Among various steam generators, helical coil once-through steam generators (HCOTSG) stand out due to their compact structure, high heat transfer efficiency, and strong adaptability to complex environments. Compared with traditional U-tube and straight-tube steam generators, HCOTSG have unique advantages in ship or offshore platform reactors, especially in space utilization, thermal stress resistance, and adaptability to dynamic conditions—their compactness is crucial for marine applications with limited space, and high heat transfer efficiency ensures effective heat transfer to improve overall power efficiency. To investigate the effects of rolling and tilt from complex ocean conditions on HCOTSG’s thermal-hydraulic performance, a high-precision thermal-hydraulic analysis code was established based on fluid mechanics and heat transfer principles. Ocean conditions’ influence on HCOTSG’s internal flow and heat transfer was incorporated by modifying the momentum equation, considering additional inertial forces and gravitational components from motions. The model’s reliability was verified using existing experimental data and literature, ensuring it could simulate HCOTSG’s thermal-hydraulic characteristics under normal and abnormal conditions. Based on model validation, the code was used for detailed transient calculations of LFR under typical ocean conditions. Key operating parameters were explored, including heaving motion periods, heaving motion amplitudes, heaving-tilt coupling directions, and angles. Key thermal-hydraulic parameters were monitored to analyze their variation rules. The results show that HCOTSG’s thermal-hydraulic parameters are closely related to heaving motion period and amplitude. With increasing heaving motion period, each parameter’s variation period increases while its amplitude decreases, due to reduced inertial force impact. A larger heaving motion amplitude causes more significant parameter fluctuations, as it leads to greater changes in HCOTSG’s internal flow field and heat transfer. Under heaving-tilt coupling, tilt direction significantly affects system safety. Tilt along the x-axis results in the maximum secondary-side outlet pressure with minimal heat transfer increase, imposing the most prominent impact. With increasing tilt angle, secondary-side outlet pressure rises, heat transfer decreases, and primary-side outlet temperature increases, but the overall influence is smaller than that of heaving motion period and amplitude. The findings show that thermal-hydraulic parameter fluctuation amplitude decreases with rising heaving motion period and increases with growing heaving motion amplitude; Tilt angle has a weak effect under coupling conditions. These results provide theoretical support and technical reference for HCOTSG’s design optimization, safety assessment, and operation control in marine LFR, improving the reactor’s adaptability under complex ocean conditions.

     

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