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First results of the QUENCH-ALISA bundle test

Stuckert, Juri ORCID iD icon; Birchley, Jonathan; Große, Mirco; Hollands, Thorsten; Kalilainen, Jarmo; Laier, J.; Lind, T.; Moch, J.; Peters, U.; Steinbrück, Martin ORCID iD icon; Zhang, Y.

Abstract (englisch):

Experiment QUENCH-18 on air ingress and aerosol release was successfully conducted at KIT on 27 September 2017. This test was performed in the frame of the EC supported ALISA programme. It was proposed by XJTU Xi’an (China) and supported by PSI (Switzerland) and GRS (Germany). The primary aims were to examine the oxidation of M5® claddings (OD=9.5 mm, wall thickness 570 µm) in air/steam mixture following a limited pre-oxidation in steam, and to achieve a long period of oxygen and steam starvations to promote interaction with the nitrogen. QUENCH-18 was thus a companion test to the earlier air ingress experiments, QUENCH-10 and -16 (in contrast to QUENCH-18, these two bundle tests were performed without steam flow during the air ingress stage). Additionally, the QUENCH 18 experiment investigated the effects of the presence of two Ag/In/Cd control rods on early-phase bundle degradation (companion test to the QUENCH-13 experiment), and two pressured unheated rod simulators (60 bar, He). The low pressurised heater rods (2.3 bar, similar to the system pressure) were Kr-filled.
In a first transient, the bundle was heated from the peak cladding temperature Tpct ≈ 900 K in an atmosphere of flowing argon (3 g/s) and superheated steam (3.3 g/s) by electrical power increase to the peak cladding temperature of Tpct ≈ 1400 K. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000076916
Veröffentlicht am 28.11.2017
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Materialien – Angewandte Werkstoffphysik (IAM-AWP)
Publikationstyp Vortrag
Publikationsdatum 17.10.2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator urn:nbn:de:swb:90-769168
KITopen-ID: 1000076916
HGF-Programm 32.02.11 (POF III, LK 01) Auslegungsüberschreitende Störfälle
Veranstaltung 23rd International QUENCH Workshop, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, 17.-19.10.2017
Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung Proceedings of the 23th QUENCH Workshop: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000076201
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