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The Hydrogen Source and Hydrogen Mitigation Measurement during Severe Accidents for AP1000

  • LI Jingxi;TONG Lili;CAO Xuewu
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  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Received date: 2012-05-25

  Revised date: 2012-07-06

  Online published: 2012-07-28

Abstract

AP1000 model, including Reactor Coolant System(RCS), Engineering Safety Features (ESFs), and containment, is built by using the integrated severe analysis code. According to AP1000 Probability Risk Analysis (PRA), several typical sequences are selected. The accident progressions are analyzed and hydrogen sources are investigated. It indicates that 624kg hydrogen will be generated in pressure vessel induced by MB-LOCA. The model of hydrogen control system, which consists of 64 glow-up igniters and two Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners (PARs), is built to analyze the effectiveness of removing hydrogen and the combustion modes are identified by the Shapiro triangular diagram. The results show that hydrogen concentration could be controlled within the safety limits by using 64 glow-up igniters and two PARs to protect the containment integrity from hydrogen deflagration or detonation.

Cite this article

LI Jingxi;TONG Lili;CAO Xuewu . The Hydrogen Source and Hydrogen Mitigation Measurement during Severe Accidents for AP1000[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2012 , 30(21) : 30 -33 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2012.21.003

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