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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2012.32.2A.123

Investigation of Hydraulic Flow Properties around the Mouths of Deep Intake and Discharge Structures at Nuclear Power Plant by Numerical Model  

Lee, Sang Hwa (동아대학교 공과대학 토목공학과)
Yi, Sung Myeon (한국전력기술 원자력본부 토목건축기술그룹)
Park, Byong Jun (한국농어촌공사 농어촌연구원 수리시험연구팀)
Lee, Han Seung (동아대학교 공과대학 토목공학과 하천항만실험실)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.32, no.2A, 2012 , pp. 123-130 More about this Journal
Abstract
A cooling system is indispensable for the fossil and nuclear power plants which produce electricity by rotating the turbines with hot steam. A cycle of the typical cooling system includes pumping of seawater at the intake pump house, exchange of heat at the condenser, and discharge of hot water to the sea. The cooling type of the nuclear power plants in Korea recently evolves from the conventional surface intake/discharge systems to the submerged intake/discharge systems that minimize effectively an intake temperature rise of the existing plants and that are beneficial to the marine environment by reducing the high temperature region with an intensive dilution due to a high velocity jet and density differential at the mixing zone. It is highly anticipated that the future nuclear power plants in Korea will accommodate the submerged cooling system in credit of supplying the lower temperature water in the summer season. This study investigates the approach flow patterns at the velocity caps and discharge flow patterns from diffusers using the 3-D computational fluid dynamics code of $FLOW-3D^{(R)}$. The approach flow test has been conducted at the velocity caps with and without a cap. The discharge flow from the diffuser was simulated for the single-port diffuser and multi-ports diffuser. The flow characteristics to the velocity cap with a cap demonstrate that fish entrainment can significantly be minimized on account of the low vertical flow component around the cap. The flow pattern around the diffuser is well agreed with the schematic diagram by Jirka and Harleman.
Keywords
nuclear power plant; deep intake; deep discharge; velocity cap; FLOW-3D$^{(R)}$;
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