10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: NUCLEAR OPTION IN COUNTRIES WITH SMALL AND MEDIUM ELECTRICITY GRIDS

1 – 4 June 2014, Zadar, Croatia

S2-151

Hot Leg Streaming Calculation for Two-Loop

PWR Plant

Davor Grgić,
Tomislav Fancev,
Vesna Benčik,
Siniša Šadek
University of Zagreb, Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and
Computing
Unska 3, Zagreb, Croatia
davor.grgic@fer.hr,
tomislav.fancev@fer.hr,
vesna.bencik@fer.hr,
sinisa.sadek@fer.hr
Keywords: hot leg streaming, PARCS, FLUENT, temperature profiles
Thermal stratification in hot leg pipe (often called hot leg streaming
(HLS)) of PWR plant is caused by different heating of core fluid streams
in fuel assemblies having different power production. Fluid streams hav-
ing different temperature at core exit, after some mixing, enter hot leg
pipe. Any perpendicular plane downstream hot leg pipe will have some
kind of 2D temperature distribution and temperature measured by im-
mersed RTD will depend on circumferential position and insertion depth
of RTD detector. In order to get representative average temperature of the
water typically 3 different circumferential measurement positions were
used. The model for HLS calculation is developed based on core exit tem-
peratures calculated by PARCS code and ANSYS-FLUENT CFD model of
outlet plenum and hot legs. The scooping calculation was performed to
determine HLS temperature profiles for NPP Krško.

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