Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

The Korean Society of Marine Engineering (한국마린엔지니어링학회)
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Proposal and Analysis of Hydrogen Mitigation System Guiding Hydrogen in Containment Building

  • Park, Kweonha (Division of Mechanical & Energy Systems Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University) ;
  • Lee, Khor Chong (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
  • Received : 2014.08.27
  • Accepted : 2014.12.03
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

This study is about a hydrogen mitigation system in a containment building like an offshore or a nuclear plant. A hydrogen explosion is possibly happened after condensation of steam if hydrogen releases with steam in a containment buildings. Passive autocatalytic recombiner is the one of the measures, but the performance of this equipment is not sure because the distribution of hydrogen is very irregular and is not predicted correctly. This study proposes a new approach for improving the hydrogen removing performance with hydrogen-guiding property. The steam is simulated and analysed. The results show that the shallow air containment reduced over 55% of the released hydrogen and the deep air containment type reduces over 80% of released hydrogen.

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