Analysis of the AP600 core makeup tank experiments using the NOTRUMP code
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
The AP600 design utilizes passive methods to perform core and containment cooling functions for a postulated loss of coolant. The core makeup tank (CMT) is an important feature of the AP600 passive safety system. The NOTRUMP code has been compared to the 300-series core makeup tank experiments. It has been observed that the code will capture the correct thermal-hydraulic behavior observed in the experiments. The correlations used for wall film condensation and convective heat transfer to the heated CMT liquid appear to be appropriate for these applications. The code will predict the rapid condensation and mixing thermal-hydraulic behavior observed in the 300-series tests. The NOTRUMP predictions can be noding-dependent since the condensation is extremely dependent on the amount of cold CMT liquid that mixes with the incoming steam flow.
- OSTI ID:
- 400851
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950828-; TRN: 96:030281
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1995 National heat transfer conference, Portland, OR (United States), 5-9 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Heat transfer -- Portland 1995; El-Genk, M.S. [ed.] [Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)]; PB: 378 p.; AIChE Symposium Series, Volume 91, Number 306
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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