• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.280-280
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• 2011

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.126-133
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• 2023

This study analyzes the flow characteristics and sponge ball recovery performance in a ball strainer according to vortex promoter design variables through flow-particle analysis based on actual experiments to derive a method for improving the recovery rate of cleaning sponge balls of CTCS applied to existing power plants. Based on the ball strainer in CTCS used in the power plant, the experiment was conducted by changing the design factor of the improved shape. In addition, flow and particle analysis were performed under the same conditions as the experiment to numerically the flow characteristics and recovery rate in the ball strainer according to the design factor of the vortex promoter. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that the recovery performance was improved by about 3% by changing the design height of the Vortex promoter. And when comparing the difference between maximum and minimum recovery rate, it was found that the effect on the recovery performance increased slightly according to the distance condition compared to the vortex promoter design height condition.

• 한국상하수도협회지
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• s.10
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• pp.56-59
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• 2005

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.295-310
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• 2013

Industry- or regulatory-sponsored research activities on the resolution of Generic Safety Issue (GSI)-191 were reviewed, especially on the chemical effects. Potential chemical effects on the head loss across the debris-loaded sump strainer under a post-accident condition were experimentally evidenced by small-scale bench tests, integrated chemical effects test (ICET), and vertical loop head loss tests. Three main chemical precipitates were identified by WCAP-16530-NP: calcium phosphate, aluminum oxyhydroxide, and sodium aluminum silicate. The former two precipitates were also identified as major chemical precipitates by the ICETs. The assumption that all released calcium would form precipitates is reasonable. CalSil insulation needs to be minimized especially in a plant using trisodium phosphate buffer. The assumption that all released aluminum would form precipitates appears highly conservative because ICETs and other studies suggest substantial solubility of aluminum at high temperature and inhibition of aluminum corrosion by silicate or phosphate. The industry-proposed chemical surrogates are quite effective in increasing the head loss across the debris-loaded bed and more effective than the prototypical aluminum hydroxide precipitates generated by in-situ aluminum corrosion. There appears to be some unresolved potential issues related to GSI-191 chemical effects as identified in NUREG/CR-6988. The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, however, concluded that the implications of these issues are either not generically significant or are appropriately addressed, although several issues associated with downstream in-vessel effects remain.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.1345-1354
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• 2019

Clogging of sump strainers that filter the recirculation water in containment after a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) seriously impedes the continued cooling of nuclear reactor cores. In experiments examining the corrosion of aluminium alloy 6061, a common material in containment equipment, in borated solutions simulating the water chemistry of sump water after a LOCA, we found that Fe-bearing intermetallic particles, which were initially buried in the Al matrix, were progressively exposed as corrosion continued. Their cathodic nature $vis-{\grave{a}}-vis$ the Al matrix provoked continuous trenching around them until they were finally released into the test solution. Such particles released from Al alloy components in a reactor containment after a LOCA will be transported to the sump entrance with the recirculation flow and trapped by the debris bed that typically forms on the strainer surface, potentially aggravating strainer clogging. These Fe-bearing intermetallic particles, many of which had a rod or thin strip-like geometry, were identified to be mainly the cubic phase ${\alpha}_c-Al(Fe,Mn)Si$ with an average size of about $2.15{\mu}m$; 11.5 g of particles with a volume of about $3.2cm^3$ would be released with the dissolution of every 1 kg 6061 aluminium alloy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.424-424
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• 1999

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.21-26
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• 2015

This study presents a development of the cleaning system in a nuclear power plant condenser. The tube cleaning system is very important equipment in a power plant condenser. Specially, removal of the fouling is a key process in the condenser tube. The objective of this study is development of a ball collector system for cleaning a condenser by using a sponge ball. This study uses CFD in order to optimize design of the ball strainer screen. Through the CFD, the implication of the ball strainer screen for static pressure distribution is examined. Results of research, this study have developed a 1/5 scale model for application to the power plant and developed a performance test equipment.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.273-277
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• 1994

1990년 7월 이후 #2 베어링에서 발생한 오일 휩 현상을 감지하고서도 그 주원인을 일반적으로 흔히 발생하는 사항에서만 해결방안을 찾으려 노력한 결과 3년 반의 시간이 경과되었고, 뜻하지 않게도 저널 직경의 불균일에 의한 오일 휩 현상임 을 뒤늦게 알게 되었다. 철저한 점검의 필요성을 강조하지 않을 수 없다. 증기터빈 의 Overhaul 작업완료 후 Oil Flusning 절차가 있는데 이 Oil Flusning 방법에 문제 가 있다. 보통은 작업완료후 로터를 정지한 상태에서 베어링 앞에 Oil Strainer(Fine Mesh)를 설치하고 오일 펌프를 기동하여 Flushing을 하는데 이때 Strainer를 통과한 작은 이물질이 베어링내에 축적되었다가 터빈 기동시 이 이물질과 로터가 접촉되어 저널이 손상되게 된다. 인천화력3호기 #2 베어링의 오일 휩을 일으키게 한 저널의 편마모 현상도 이와같은 경우임에 틀림없다. 왜냐하면 '90, O/H시 #2 베어링 저널의 직경은 원통형이었기 때문이다. 따라서 Oil Flusning은 터빈 구조상 불가능한 경우 도 있겠지만 베어링 by-pass Oil Flushing 시스템으로 개조 운영되어야 저널 및 베어링 마멸현상을 제거할 수 있고 이로인한 오일 휩 현상도 예방할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.246-246
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• 2012

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.358-367
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• 2013

In the present paper, we apply a porous modelling technique to accurately predict the pressure drop through the strainer by replacing all or some of the filter composed of perforated plates with porous media and there imposing the streamwise and transverse loss coefficients required according to the Forchheimer law and then confirm its effectiveness. At first, the streamwise coefficient is obtained by performing a simple simulation on the pipe flow mimicking the hole flow. Subsequently, the transverse coefficient is obtained by setting a unit pattern to have common flow loss characteristics with the repeated shape patterns in the filter, then performing numerical simulations on the prototype and porous model of the unit shape pattern, and finally comparing their results of pressure drop. To validate the applied modeling technique, we perform the numerical simulation with the two specified loss coefficients on a whole shape of strainer and compare the modeling results with those of the corresponding prototype numerical simulation. Comparison indicates that the modeling technique can predict the pressure drop and flow characteristics comparatively accurately and save the number of nodes closely related to the computational cost (CPU and memory) by about 3~4 times compared with the prototype simulation.