PAssive Systems: Simulating the Thermal-hydraulics with ExperimentaL Studies

Informations projet

PASTELS

N° de convention de subvention: 945275

DOI

10.3030/945275

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 20 Mai 2020

Date de début 1 Septembre 2020

Date de fin 31 Août 2024

Financé au titre de

• Euratom

Coût total

€ 3 801 457,50

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 993 262,76

Coordonné par

ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE
France

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Les liens vers les livrables et les publications des projets du 7e PC, ainsi que les liens vers certains types de résultats spécifiques tels que les jeux de données et les logiciels, sont récupérés dynamiquement sur OpenAIRE .

Livrables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Plan dealing with the acquisition and archiving of data as well as rules for access to this data for all partners

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

PASI facility description for PASTELS

A report describing PASI configuration used in PASTELS

Technical description and design review of the PKL facility and the SACO component

Technical description volumes masses pressure losses heat losses geometry of all components of PKL test facility and SACO The SACO design review report will comprise considerations on the scaling approach in the PKL facility shortcomings of the scaling approach possible distortions of relevant phenomena induced by geometrical and pressure scaling and recommendations for the use of TH system codes

Documents, reports (16)

PASTELS symposium

Symposium at the end of the project targeting mainly NPP operators to disseminate PASTELS results and roadmaps

Roadmaps for European versions of SACO and CWC

Technical Report to quantify the effort required to bring SACO and CWC to industrial application

Bibliographic research on the phenomena related to the natural circulation in closed loop

Describes phenomena and models with strengths and weaknesses and review of existing SET experimental support

PASI post-test analysis results

A report on post-test analyses using codes of partners’ choice, based on as-built PASI configuration data and actual test parameters and boundary conditions, being aware of test outcomes.

Advances on safety CWC design and related models

Summary of WP4 activities and key findings.

Dissemination and communication plan

Detailed plan defining all activities for the dissemination and communication of the project and its results to its different target audience groups

Simulation of PERSEO experiments

Describes test facility and compare results of different approaches used in T23 with experimental results

PASI test specification

A report detailing test matrix experimental boundary conditions and needed instrumentation

Methodologies and guidelines for validation and use of numerical tools

Technical synthesis based on outputs from WP2,WP3 and WP4.

Synthesis on the status of code validation on separate (SET) and combined effect tests (CET)

Describes achievements and deficiencies in code capabilities for simulation of simple passive systems, suggest new developments and additional experimental support.

Advances on SACO design and related models

The report merges the findings on code performance from the pre- and post-test analyses, gives recommendations and guidelines on the application of test results acquired from reduced-scale testing to real PWR dimensions, provides recommendations on improvements of the SACO concepts and, in general, it points the way for the development of the SACO concept towards TRL7.

PASI pre-test analysis results

A report on pretest analyses using codes of partners choice PASI basic data and PASI test plans as input specified test configurations parameters boundary conditions but no knowledge of actual test results yet

Summary of P1 pre and post-test calculations

A short summary of T3.4 stage I computational activities used as an input for the preparations of proposals for BIC and procedures of the phase 2 experiments

PASI-CWC test results

An electronic database reporting test data and a summary report will be produced

Benchmark report

Collect outcomes, conclusions, recommendation from benchmark exercise blind and open phases

Simulations of HERO-2 experiments

Describes test facility and compare results of different approaches used in T22 with experimental results

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project public website

Public website will provide information about the project publications news and events

Other (2)

PKL-SACO phase 1-experiments

A report which comprises objectives, facility configuration, list of actions, salient results, etc. and accompanying data: test data, measurement lists and plans, movie. The supply to the project partners may be realised via data DVD and/or download/sharepoint sites.

PKL-SACO phase2-experiments

Containing: objectives, facility configuration, list of actions, salient results, etc., test data, measurement lists and plans, movie)

Publications

Conference proceedings (9)

Efficiency of Passive Open Loop Heat Removal Over Wide Range of Loop Flow Resistances - PASI Loop Tests in the EU-PASTELS Project

Auteurs: Telkkä, J., Riikonen, V., Räsänen, A., Kotro, E., Hyvärinen, J.
Publié dans: NURETH-20, Numéro Proceedings of the 20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20), 2023, Page(s) 1716-1726
Éditeur: American Nuclear Society

Assessment of NEPTUNE_CFD Applied to the Study of a Passive Safety Condenser: Modeling and First Validation Elements

Auteurs: J. Perez et al.
Publié dans: NURETH-20, Numéro 632-644, 2023
Éditeur: NURETH-20

Application of CFD and System Codes to Simulation of HERO-2 Experiment

Auteurs: Kecek A., Vyskocil L.
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference NENE 2023, Bled, Slovenia, 2023
Éditeur: Nuclear Society of Slovenia

Natural circulation HERO-2 experiment simulations for the EU funded PASTELS Project

Auteurs: C. Herer, L. Vyskocil, A. Kecek
Publié dans: TIC 2022, 2022
Éditeur: IAEA

RELAP5 simulations of the PASI experiment on Containment Wall Condensation

Auteurs: G. Grippo, M. Polidori
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: ICAPP 2024

TRACE investigation on the performance of passive safety condenser as ultimate heat sink

Auteurs: Omar S Al-Yahia, Ivor Clifford, Hakim Ferroukhi
Publié dans: SCOPE2023, Numéro vol.13, 2023, Page(s) 15
Éditeur: SCOPE2023

Parametric Study on the Modeling of the Open Passive Containment Cooling System (CWC)

Auteurs: Omar S. Al-Yahia, Ivor Clifford, Konstantin Nikitin and Hakim Ferroukhi
Publié dans: NUTHOS-13, 2022, Page(s) .
Éditeur: Elsevier

Simulation of PASI experiment on passive containment heat removal system with MELCOR and ATHLET

Auteurs: Kecek A., Parduba Z.
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference NENE 2023, Bled, Slovenia, 2023
Éditeur: Nuclear Society of Slovenia

PASTELS - PAssive Systems: Simulating the Thermalhydraulics with ExperimentaL Studies

Auteurs: M. Montout, C. Herer, I. Gomez-Garcia-Torano, Joonas Telkka, M. Polidori
Publié dans: NURETH-19, 2022, Page(s) 36
Éditeur: NURETH-19

Peer reviewed articles (4)

TRACE code simulation of the interaction between reactor coolant system and containment building with passive heat removal system

Auteurs: Omar S. Al-Yahia, Ivor Clifford, Konstantin Nikitin, Prosper Liu, Hakim Ferroukhi
Publié dans: Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2023, Page(s) ., ISSN 0029-5493
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2023.112234

Assessment of TRACE code for modeling of passive safety system during long transient SBO via PKL/SACO facility

Auteurs: Omar S Al-Yahia, Ivor Clifford, Hakim Ferroukhi
Publié dans: Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Numéro Volume 56, Numéro 8, 2024, Page(s) 2893-2905, ISSN 1738-5733
Éditeur: Korean Nuclear Society

Frequency and amplitude of flashing-induced instability in an open natural circulation loop

Auteurs: Paul Dené, Michael Montout, Eric Garcia, Joonas Telkkä, Vesa Riikonen, Franck David
Publié dans: Nuclear Engineering and Design, Numéro 424, 2024, Page(s) 113279, ISSN 0029-5493
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2024.113279

PASTELS project - overall progress of the project on experimental and numerical activities on passive safety systems

Auteurs: Michaël Montout, Christophe Herer, Joonas Telkkä
Publié dans: Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Numéro 56, 2024, Page(s) 803-811, ISSN 1738-5733
Éditeur: Korean Nuclear Society
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2023.08.021