Efficiency of selected methods of hydrogen removal from a nuclear reactor's containment building

• Autorzy: Bury T.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Large amounts of gaseous hydrogen may be released into the containment building during a severe accident in a water cooled nuclear reactor. The main methods of hydrogen removal from the containment are described in brief in this paper. HEPCAL - an in-house lumped parameter computer code - was used for simulation purposes and the results were used to evaluate the efficiency of various hydrogen removal systems.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

nuclear reactor; containment; hydrogen; hydrogen removal systems; thermal-hydraulic analysis

PL

reaktor jądrowy; obudowa bezpieczeństwa reaktora; wodór; systemy usuwania wodoru; analiza termohydrauliczna

• Wydawca: Institute of Heat Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Journal of Power Technologies
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: Vol. 94, nr 5
• Strony: 96--104
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz., rys., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Bury T.

• Institute of Thermal Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Konarskiego 22, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

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