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HORIZON EXPANSION OF THERMAL-HYDRAULIC ACTIVITIES INTO HTGR SAFETY ANALYSIS INCLUDING GAS-TURBINE CYCLE AND HYDROGEN PLANT

  • No, Hee-Cheon (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Yoon, Ho-Joon (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Seung-Jun (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Byeng-Jin (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Ji-Hwang (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Hyeun-Min (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lim, Hong-Sik (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
  • Published : 2009.09.30
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Abstract

We present three nuclear/hydrogen-related R&D activities being performed at KAIST: air-ingressed LOCA analysis code development, gas turbine analysis tool development, and hydrogen-production system analysis model development. The ICE numerical technique widely used for the safety analysis of water-reactors is successfully implemented into GAMMA, with which we solve the basic equations for continuity, momentum conservation, energy conservation of the gas mixture, and mass conservation of 6 species (He, N2, O2, CO, CO2, and H2O). GAMMA has been extensively validated using data from 14 test facilities. We developed a tool to predict the characteristics of HTGR helium turbines based on the throughflow calculation with a Newton-Raphson method that overcomes the weakness of the conventional method based on the successive iteration scheme. It is found that the current method reaches stable and quick convergence even under the off-normal condition with the same degree of accuracy. The dynamic equations for the distillation column of HI process are described with 4 material components involved in the HI process: H2O, HI, I2, H2. For the HI process we improved the Neumann model based on the NRTL (Non-Random Two-Liquid) model. The improved Neumann model predicted a total pressure with 8.6% maximum relative deviation from the data and 2.5% mean relative deviation, and liquid-liquid-separation with 9.52% maximum relative deviation from the data.

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