CFD simulation of thermal stratification and mixing in a Nordic BWR pressure suppression pool
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Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) employs the Pressure Suppression Pool (PSP) as a heat sink to prevent overpressure of the reactor vessel and containment. Steam can be injected into the PSP through spargers in normal and accident conditions and through blowdown pipes in case of a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). There is a safety limit on the maximum PSP temperature at which such steam injection might cause dynamic loads on the containment structures. The performance of the pool can be affected if thermal stratification is developed when temperature of the hot layer grows rapidly while cold layer remains inactive. Simulation of pool behavior during realistic accident scenarios requires validated models that can sufficiently address the interaction between phenomena, safety systems and operational procedures. Direct modeling of steam injection into a water pool in long-term transients is computationally expensive due to the need to resolve simultaneously the smallest space and time scales of individual steam bubbles and the scales of the whole PSP. To enable PSP analysis for practical purposes, Effective Heat source and Effective Momentum source (EHS/EMS) models have been proposed that avoid the need to resolve steam-water interface. This paper aims to implement mechanistic approaches previously developed by authors for the simulation of transient thermal stratification and mixing phenomena induced by steam injection through spargers in a Nordic BWR PSP. The latest version of the EHS/EMS models using the ‘Unit cell’ approach has been validated against integral effect pool tests and applied to plant simulations. Several scenarios with boundary conditions corresponding to postulated accident sequences were simulated to investigate the possibility of stratification development and the effects of activation of different systems (e.g., blowdown pipes, high momentum nozzle) on the pool behavior.
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Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) employs the Pressure Suppression Pool (PSP) as a heat sink to prevent overpressure of the reactor vessel and containment. Steam can be injected into the PSP through spargers in normal and accident conditions and through blowdown pipes in case of a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). There is a safety limit on the maximum PSP temperature at which such steam injection might cause dynamic loads on the containment structures. The performance of the pool can be affected if thermal stratification is developed when temperature of the hot layer grows rapidly while cold layer remains inactive. Simulation of pool behavior during realistic accident scenarios requires validated models that can sufficiently address the interaction between phenomena, safety systems and operational procedures. Direct modeling of steam injection into a water pool in long-term transients is computationally expensive due to the need to resolve simultaneously the smallest space and time scales of individual steam bubbles and the scales of the whole PSP. To enable PSP analysis for practical purposes, Effective Heat source and Effective Momentum source (EHS/EMS) models have been proposed that avoid the need to resolve steam-water interface. This paper aims to implement mechanistic approaches previously developed by authors for the simulation of transient thermal stratification and mixing phenomena induced by steam injection through spargers in a Nordic BWR PSP. The latest version of the EHS/EMS models using the ‘Unit cell’ approach has been validated against integral effect pool tests and applied to plant simulations. Several scenarios with boundary conditions corresponding to postulated accident sequences were simulated to investigate the possibility of stratification development and the effects of activation of different systems (e.g., blowdown pipes, high momentum nozzle) on the pool behavior.
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