Vibration Reducing Method for High Pressure Feedwater Heater Drain Piping System

고압급수가열기 배수계통 배관계 고진동 해소방안 연구

The 120 meters high pressure feedwater heater drain piping in nuclear power plant had been suffered by excessive vibration from the beginning of power generation. As time goes by, the piping vibration was beyond the allowable limit and an appropriate countermeasure was required to prevent the fatigue failure of the pipeline from the abnormal vibration. In this study, the vibrational characteristics of high pressure feedwater heater drain piping and the countermeasure for abnormal vibration were investigated. Among the several vibration reduction methods, the piping layout changed by making the smooth pipeline was applied to the high Pressure feedwater heater drain piping in nuclear Power plant. Applying the countermeasure, the vibration level was found to reduce over 54 percents and was satisfied under the allowable velocity at the full-power operation condition.