Liquid Film Thickness on Fuel Rod under High Pressure and High Temperature Steam-Water Two Phase Flow

Accession number;06A0254191
Title;Liquid Film Thickness on Fuel Rod under High Pressure and High Temperature Steam-Water Two Phase Flow
Author; SATO MICHIO (Toshiba Corp.) MOROOKA SHIN'ICHI (Toshiba Corp.) SHIRAKAWA KEN'ETSU (Toshiba Corp.) YAMAMOTO YASUSHI (Toshiba Corp.) WATANABE KAZUMI (Toshiba Corp.) ARAI RYOICHI (Toshiba Corp.)
Journal Title;Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan
Journal Code:L4596A
ISSN:1347-2879
VOL.5;NO.1;PAGE.14-24(2006)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.20, TBL.2, REF.13
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;This paper deals with behavior of liquid film on the fuel rod which is very important for the critical power prediction. In this study, the liquid film measurement device using an ultrasonic transducer has been developed and the liquid film thickness data has been obtained for a simulated BWR 4 * 4 rod bundle under 1 MPa condition. The cooling fluid is steam-water mixture and flow direction is vertical. Also the following results were obtained. Firstly, the liquid film thickness becomes thinner with increasing quality and the liquid film thickness is about 0.2 mm at 9.3% of quality. Secondary, the time change of liquid film thickness becomes smaller with increasing the quality. It was found that the change of liquid film thickness becomes more smoothly near the dryout condition. (author abst.)