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APPLICATION FEATURES OF SPATIAL CONDUCTOMETRY SENSORS IN MODELLING OF COOLANT FLOW MIXING IN NUCLEAR POWER UNIT EQUIPMENT

https://doi.org/10.21122/2220-9506-2016-7-3-66-75

Abstract

Coolant flow mixing processes with different temperatures and concentrations of diluted additives widely known in nuclear power units operation. In some cases these processes make essential impact on the resource and behavior of the nuclear unit during transient and emergency situations. The aim of the study was creation of measurement system and test facility to carry out basic tests and to embed spatial conductometry method in investigation practice of turbulent coolant flows. In the course of investigation measurement system with sensors and experimental facility was designed, several first tests were carried out. A special attention was dedicated to calibration and clarification of conductometry sensor application methodologies in studies of turbulent flow characteristics. Investigations involved method of electrically contrast tracer jet with concurrent flow in closed channel of round crosssection. The measurements include both averaged and unsteady realizations of measurement signal. Experimental data processing shows good agreement with other tests acquired from another measurement systems based on different physical principles. Calibration functions were acquired, methodical basis of spatial conductometry measurement system application was created. Gathered experience of spatial sensor application made it possible to formulate the principles of further investigation that involve large-scale models of nuclear unit equipment. Spatial wire-mesh sensors proved to be a perspective type of eddy resolving measurement devices.

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A. A. Barinov
Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev
Russian Federation

Address for correspondence: Barinov A.A. – Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev, Minin str., 24, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia  e-mail: lxbarinov92@mail.ru



S. M. Dmitriev
Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev
Russian Federation


A. E. Khrobostov
Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev
Russian Federation


V. G. Glavny
S.S. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation


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Barinov A.A., Dmitriev S.M., Khrobostov A.E., Glavny V.G. APPLICATION FEATURES OF SPATIAL CONDUCTOMETRY SENSORS IN MODELLING OF COOLANT FLOW MIXING IN NUCLEAR POWER UNIT EQUIPMENT. Devices and Methods of Measurements. 2016;7(3):247-255. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21122/2220-9506-2016-7-3-66-75

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