Indicated and actual mass inventory measurements for an inverted U-tube steam generator
Abstract
Results from an experimental investigation of actual versus indicated secondary liquid level in a steam generator at steaming conditions are presented. The experimental investigation was performed in two different small scale U-tube-in-shell steam generators at typical pressurized water reactor operating conditions (5-7 MPa; saturated) in the Semiscale facility. During steaming conditions, the indicated secondary liquid level was found to vary considerably from the actual ''bottled-up'' liquid level. These difference between indicated and actual liquid level are related to the frictional pressure drop associated with the two-phase steaming condition in the riser. Data from a series of bottle-up experiments (Simultaneously, the primary heat source and secondary feed and steam are terminated) are tabulated and the actual liquid level is correlated to the indicated liquid level.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5052110
- Report Number(s):
- EGG-M-06986; CONF-861211-5
ON: DE86013481
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-76ID01570
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers winter meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, 7 Dec 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; STEAM GENERATORS; TESTING; CORRELATIONS; FLUID FLOW; LEVELS; BOILERS; REACTORS; VAPOR GENERATORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; 210200* - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Nonboiling Water Cooled
Citation Formats
Loomis, G G, Plessinger, M P, and Boucher, T J. Indicated and actual mass inventory measurements for an inverted U-tube steam generator. United States: N. p., 1986.
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Loomis, G G, Plessinger, M P, & Boucher, T J. Indicated and actual mass inventory measurements for an inverted U-tube steam generator. United States.
Loomis, G G, Plessinger, M P, and Boucher, T J. 1986.
"Indicated and actual mass inventory measurements for an inverted U-tube steam generator". United States.
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title = {Indicated and actual mass inventory measurements for an inverted U-tube steam generator},
author = {Loomis, G G and Plessinger, M P and Boucher, T J},
abstractNote = {Results from an experimental investigation of actual versus indicated secondary liquid level in a steam generator at steaming conditions are presented. The experimental investigation was performed in two different small scale U-tube-in-shell steam generators at typical pressurized water reactor operating conditions (5-7 MPa; saturated) in the Semiscale facility. During steaming conditions, the indicated secondary liquid level was found to vary considerably from the actual ''bottled-up'' liquid level. These difference between indicated and actual liquid level are related to the frictional pressure drop associated with the two-phase steaming condition in the riser. Data from a series of bottle-up experiments (Simultaneously, the primary heat source and secondary feed and steam are terminated) are tabulated and the actual liquid level is correlated to the indicated liquid level.},
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year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
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