Validation of Sodium Chemistry (NAC) Package - FY18 Progress.

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1559563· OSTI ID:1559563

Louie, David ^[1]; Humphries, Larry L. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This report describes the progress on the validation of the development of MELCOR Sodium Chemistry (NAC) package. The primary focus for this report is to ensure that the implementation of the CONTAIN-LMR sodium models into MELCOR is correctly done. Thus, the verification test is to conduct the code-to-code comparison with MELCOR and CONTAIN-LMR. Last year we had reported the development of NAC package which included three sodium models: spray fire, pool fire and atmospheric chemistry. The first 2 models were completed and additional improvement for these two models were done this year to allow upward spray capability and various functional capability for modeling the pool fire experiment better, respectively. This year, the atmospheric chemistry implementation has been progressed to a point for testing in the presence of water vapor (modeled as ideal gas) as a part of the two-condensable option model in the CONTAIN- LMR. The user's guide and reference manual for the NAC package including these improvements are described in a separate document being published as a part of the MELCOR 2.2 release. For this report, we would discuss the experimental validation using the implemented spray fire and pool fire models. A code-to-code comparison with CONTAIN-LMR is described for a spray fire experiment. Note that the atmospheric chemistry model has not fully implemented due to the absence of the two condensable option. Only the chemical reactions between the sodium aerosol and water vapor can be modeled. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was overseen and managed by Matthew R. Denman (Sandia National Laboratories). In addition, we appreciate that Chris Faucett for developing experimental data and provided the initial input decks as a part of the MELCOR assessment report development for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's project. This work is supported by the Office of Nuclear Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy work package number AT-17SN170204 and NT-185N05030102.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Reactor Technologies (NE-7)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1559563
• Report Number(s): SAND2018--13701; 670929
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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