Being the Vacuum Vessel Pressure Suppression System (VVPSS) one of the most important passive safety systems to be foreseen in DEMO plant, design and integration challenges have to be faced to ensure that best performance within safety requirements are always achieved. In this framework, parametric safety analyses have been performed to support VVPSS design activities; in particular to determine the minimum flow area required by the suppression system pipework to limit the vacuum vessel pressure below the limit imposed as a requirement by design. The selected Postulated Initiating Event (PIE) is a double-ended guillotine break in the Primary Heat Transfer System (PHTS) feeding pipe of the Breeding Zone (BZ) during plasma activity. Coolant is discharged inside the VV upper port volume and an unmitigated disruption occurs, causing further breaks in the first wall (FW) cooling channels. Considering that limiters could be introduced in the future design of the EU DEMO reactor to prevent damages to plasma-facing components, the same parametric study has been performed considering limiters accident mitigation effects. Because discharge flow area toward the suppression pool could also affect the source terms mobilization, the transport of radioactive products (e.g. tritium, tungsten dust and activated corrosion products) has been simulated with the fusion version of the MELCOR code (ver. 1.8.6).
Pressure suppression system influence on vacuum vessel thermal-hydraulics and on source term mobilization during a multiple first Wall – Blanket pipe break / D'Onorio, M.; Caruso, G.. - In: FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN. - ISSN 0920-3796. - 164:(2021), pp. 1-7. [10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.112224]
Pressure suppression system influence on vacuum vessel thermal-hydraulics and on source term mobilization during a multiple first Wall – Blanket pipe break
D'Onorio M.
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;Caruso G.Ultimo
2021
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Being the Vacuum Vessel Pressure Suppression System (VVPSS) one of the most important passive safety systems to be foreseen in DEMO plant, design and integration challenges have to be faced to ensure that best performance within safety requirements are always achieved. In this framework, parametric safety analyses have been performed to support VVPSS design activities; in particular to determine the minimum flow area required by the suppression system pipework to limit the vacuum vessel pressure below the limit imposed as a requirement by design. The selected Postulated Initiating Event (PIE) is a double-ended guillotine break in the Primary Heat Transfer System (PHTS) feeding pipe of the Breeding Zone (BZ) during plasma activity. Coolant is discharged inside the VV upper port volume and an unmitigated disruption occurs, causing further breaks in the first wall (FW) cooling channels. Considering that limiters could be introduced in the future design of the EU DEMO reactor to prevent damages to plasma-facing components, the same parametric study has been performed considering limiters accident mitigation effects. Because discharge flow area toward the suppression pool could also affect the source terms mobilization, the transport of radioactive products (e.g. tritium, tungsten dust and activated corrosion products) has been simulated with the fusion version of the MELCOR code (ver. 1.8.6).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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