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ENSI Erfahrungs- und Forschungsbericht 2011
Author und Co-author(s) T. Lind, D. Suckow, A. Dehbi, S. Güntay, S. Danner,
S. Deshpande
Institution Paul Scherrer Institut
Address 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Duration of project September 1, 2008 to August 31, 2011
ABSTRACT
A steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) in a
pressurized water reactor (PWR) has a poten-
tial of causing release of radioactivity into the
environment due to the possibility of the ra-
dionuclides by-passing the containment. The
release may take place as droplets of primary
coolant containing dissolved iodine during de-
sign basis accident phase, or as aerosols (par-
ticles and gas phase compounds) containing
fission products if the accident develops into a
severe accident.
For severe accidents, generally, no credit is
taken for the retention of aerosols inside the
steam generator, and consequently, the re-
lease fraction of the activity associated with
SGTR may be overestimated. In addition, un-
der design basis accident conditions in the dry
steam generator secondary side with no recir-
culation, no data exist for droplet retention.
Therefore, no retention of radioactivity in the
steam generator secondary side may be ac-
counted for under these conditions.
Based on the need for aerosol and droplet re-
tention data during a Steam Generator Tube
Rupture (SGTR) accident, Paul Scherrer Insti-
tut (PSI) established an international cost share
project called Aerosol Trapping In a Steam
Generator (ARTIST), with a continuation proj-
ect ARTIST II. In ARTIST II, experimental and
analytical work were carried out to comple-
ment the work carried out in ARTIST. The main
topics of ARTIST II were:
❚ determination of aerosol retention in the
break vicinity where most of the retention
takes place
❚ determination of the aerosol retention in
the flooded steam generator secondary side,
and improvement of the existing models for
pool scrubbing to be applicable to flooded
bundle conditions
❚ determination of the droplet retention in the
steam generator dryer and the effect of the
droplet size on retention.
In addition, several topics were investigated
as PhD work: i) determination of particle ag-
glomerate break-up upon impaction, ii) parti-
cle transport in turbulence, both analytical and
experimental approaches, and iii) determina-
tion of flow hydrodynamics in tube bundles.
In this report, we present the main conclusions
from the ARTIST II project.
ARTIST II
Aerosol Trapping in the Steam Generator
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