双面加热环形通道内干涸点的确定

根据环形管通道内流体流动和换热的特点,以Kirillov和Smogalev提出的干涸点理论模型假设为基础,从最基本的质量守恒方程出发,并引入临界液膜厚度等相应的辅助模型,得到了双面加热环形通道内流动沸腾干涸点的理论模型。同时针对间隙为1.0mm和1.5mm的环形窄缝进行了低压低质量流速工况下干涸点的实验研究。比较发现理论模型预测值与实验结果基本相符。说明本文提出的理论模型适用于低压低流量条件下的窄环形通道。实验同时发现:环状流临界热流密度在系统压力为2.2MPa达到最大值,临界含汽量随质量流速的增大呈缓慢下降趋势。     

螺旋管内高压汽水两相流动沸腾干涸点的研究

在较宽的实验参数范围内(系统压力P=8～15 MPa,质量流速G=800～1800 kg·m~(-2)·s~(-1),壁面热流密度q_w=200～950 kW·m~(-2))对一立式螺旋管内(管内径为10 mm,螺旋直径为300 mm,节距为50 mm)汽水两相流动沸腾干涸特性进行了实验研究。通过研究,获得了干涸发生时螺旋管圈壁温的分布特征以及压力、质量流速和壁面热流密度这三个参数对临界干度的影响规律。同时在实验数据的基础上,提出了一个适用于计算螺旋管内高压高含汽率工况下汽水两相流临界干度的经验关系式。     

竖直矩形微槽内的特殊干涸与换热行为

利用宽视场体视显微镜、高速摄影仪以及CCD摄像系统对纯蒸发和沸腾换热情形下竖直矩形毛细微槽内液体的特殊干涸行为进行了观察,对液体沿微槽槽道方向的润湿高度进行了观察测量,并对液体沿微槽槽道方向的相变换热特性进行了实验研究.实验结果表明:竖直矩形毛细微槽群是一种高性能的相变换热强化表面,微槽中液体的蒸发与沸腾对干涸点高度的变化有着复杂的影响,热流密度和相变换热系数沿槽道方向的分布不均匀.     

Heat flux effect on the droplet entrainment and deposition in annular flow dryout

This paper discusses the internal mass transfer process in annular flow dryout. The emphasis is put on the order of magnitude estimation of respective hydrodynamic and thermal mechanisms and the analysis of the heat flux effect on droplet entrainment and deposition. A simple interfacial turbulence model is developed to characterize the turbulence intensity suppression due to interface tension. The heat flux effect on droplet entrainment depends on the competition between the shear force decrease due to vapor effusion and the bubble emission: in low flow condition, the bubble emission outweighs the shear force decrease, thus the net effect is to increase the droplet entrainment; in high flow condition, the situation may reverse. The heat flux impact on droplet deposition is significant only for very fine droplets (less than 1 μm) because of the coupled effect of interface turbulence damping and the radial vapor effusion due to evaporation, but for droplets of medium and large sizes the heat flux effect is negligible. The analysis is then used to develop constitutive equations for droplet entrainment and deposition rates to take into account the interaction between thermal and hydrodynamic mechanisms, which gives improved CHF prediction for limiting quality regime (LQR) CHF experimental data.     

Experimental research on transient critical heat flux in vertical tube under oscillatory flow condition

The transient critical heat flux (CHF) experiments with forced sinusoidal inlet flow oscillation (oscillation period in 1–11 s, normalized amplitude of inlet flow oscillation in 0–3.0) were conducted in a vertical tube under low pressure condition. To analyze the triggering mechanism and aftermath of periodic dryout, the wall temperature fluctuation characteristics at the onset of periodic dryout and during post-periodic dryout were investigated. Under inlet flow oscillation condition, periodic dryout would be triggered at the wave trough of liquid film oscillation as wall heat flux far below the stable-flow CHF. The transient periodic dryout would give rise to temperature fluctuations on the tube wall, the amplitude of which increased with oscillation period and heat flux. The large wall temperature fluctuation during long-playing periodic dryout could significantly pre-trigger continuous dryout. The changing trends of the periodic dryout heat flux show a reasonable agreement with Okawa’s theoretical model, in which the liquid film oscillation was supposed be weakened by the axial mixing of liquid film. Moreover, the droplet entrainment at the oscillatory interface also has noticeable influence on the oscillation characteristics of liquid film. Based on the analysis of parameter effects on periodic dryout, a semi-empirical correlation was proposed to predict the periodic dryout heat flux under inlet flow oscillation condition.     

CO_2两相回路启动过程阶段蒸发和干烧现象分析

采用并联蒸发器作为传热元件,并联冷凝器作为散热部件,建立了包括热量收集、传递与排散的机械泵驱动两相回路集成试验系统,并对该系统的热启动进行实验研究.实验结果表明:(1)在冷工况、低热流密度的情况下,采用长程毛细管结构的蒸发器对分布式小热源进行集热时,会出现阶段性形核沸腾蒸发,并且上游过热液体形核沸腾后会导致下游出现干烧现象.(2)对于该系统,并联蒸发器相同热量同时启动是相对较好的启动方式.     

燃料电池中质子交换膜干涸的热物理机制

本文首次应用有内热源的多孔介质中流体流动与换热理论,对直接甲醇燃料电池中PEM中的传热过程和干涸 现象进行定量研究。建立了相应的数学物理模型并进行了数值求解。计算结果表明:反映水的热容量和膜的内部产热量的 两个无因次参数D和N是影响PEM中传热的主要因素;水的质量流率小和电流密度过高是造成膜干涸的主要原因。     

A mechanistic critical heat flux model for subcooled flow boiling based on local bulk flow conditions

The critical heat flux (CHF) mechanisms for subcooled flow boiling are reviewed. Based on experimental observations reported by previous investigators, the authors have developed a new mechanistic CHF model for vertical subcooled flow at high pressure and high mass velocity. This model is based on the dryout of a thin liquid layer (sublayer) beneath an intermittent vapor blanket due to a Helmholtz instability at the sublayer-vapor interface. The parametric trends of CHF have been explored qualitatively and quantitatively with respect to variations in pressure, mass velocity, subcooling and tube diameter. Comparisons of the model predictions with experimental data for water show good agreement in the simulation of subcooled flow conditions of pressurized water reactors (PWRs).     

Analysis of the dryout incident in the Oskarshamn 2 boiling water reactor

Early in 1988 dryout of fuel rods occurred in the Oskarshamn 2 boiling water reactor. During refuelling it was observed that one corner rod was damaged in each of four fuel assemblies. These were of the SVEA design, SVEA being the trade name of the ABB Atom water cross fuel. The damaged zone covered about 180° of the rod periphery facing the corner sub-channel, over a stretch of about 30 cm with the upper end just below the last downstream spacer.

The dominating cause of the dryout was re-use of fuel channels for ordinary 64-rod fuel, which were located in neighbouring positions to the SVEA fuel. The re-used channels showed excessive bowing because of irradiation. This bow increased the water gap between the fuel assemblies, thus increasing the neutron moderation and the local power around one corner of the SVEA fuel. This and some other factors caused the local peaking factor for the corner rod to increase from 1.04 to 1.38.

The flow and power conditions in the damaged fuel assemblies were calculated by means of the POLCA, PHOENIX, CASMO and CONDOR computer programs. The results of these calculations were used as a base for dryout predictions, which were carried out employing eight correlations, which are available in the open literature. The Barnett, the Becker and the Bezrukow correlations predicted the dryout power within 1%. Also the Condie & Bengston, the EPRI and the XN-1 correlations yielded very good results with accuracies of, respectively, −5.1, −2.3 and 7.3%. The Becker, the XN-1, the Bezrukow and the Condie & Bengston correlations predicted dryout to occur inside of the observed dryout zone of 30 cm length.

It is concluded that the dryout in the Oskarshamn 2 nuclear power plant was not caused by any faults in the design or manufacture of the SVEA fuel, and that the re-use of fuel channels should not be permitted.     

Finite element solution of multi-dimensional two-phase flow through porous media with arbitrary heating conditions

Mechanistic models for flow regime transitions and drag forces proposed in an earlier work are employed to predict two-phase flow characteristics in multi-dimensional porous layers. The numerical scheme calls for elimination of velocities in favor of pressure and void fraction. The momentum equations for vapor and liquid then can be reduced to a system of two partial differential equations (PDEs) which must be solved simultaneously for pressure and void fraction.

Solutions are obtained both in two-dimensional cartesian and in axi-symmetric coordinate systems. The porous layers in both cases are composed of regions with different permeabilities. The finite element method is employed by casting the PDEs in their equivalent variational forms. Two classes of boundary conditions (specified pressure and specified fluid fluxes) can be incorporated in the solution. Volumetric heating can be included as a source term. The numerical procedure is thus suitable for a wide variety of geometry and heating conditions. Numerical solutions are also compared with available experimental data.