Research on operational characteristics of passive residual heat removal system under rolling motion Original Research Article

The operational characteristics of passive residual heat removal system under rolling motion were investigated experimentally. The passive residual heat removal system under rolling motion was simulated with the advanced RELAP5 code. The results are consistent with experiments. The relative discrepancy between calculating and experimental results is less than 10%. The modified condensation heat transfer model can also be used to calculate the condensation heat transfer coefficient with droplet carryover precisely. The fluctuation of condensate temperature and steam pressure is not noticeable. As the power becomes larger for the same rolling motion, the oscillation amplitude of condensate flow rate becomes larger. The effect of rolling motion upon heat transfer coefficient and flow resistance was investigated with experimental results. Rolling motion can increase the flow resistance in a great extent. The more serious the rolling is, the more the flow resistance is. Additional pressure drop does not effect on average flow velocity. The decreasing of average flow velocity is due to the decreasing average gravity pressure drop and the increasing of flow resistance. The contribution of gravity pressure drop on the decrement of average flow velocity is less than 20%. The other is due to the increasing flow resistance. In the present paper, the experimental results are listed first, and then the simulation results comparing with the experimental results are listed in the second part. At last, the effect of rolling motion is investigated theoretically.