EP0043760B1 - Ensemble de séchage pour générateur de vapeur destiné notamment aux générateurs de vapeur de réacteurs nucléaires - Google Patents

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EP0043760B1
EP0043760B1 EP81401048A EP81401048A EP0043760B1 EP 0043760 B1 EP0043760 B1 EP 0043760B1 EP 81401048 A EP81401048 A EP 81401048A EP 81401048 A EP81401048 A EP 81401048A EP 0043760 B1 EP0043760 B1 EP 0043760B1
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Claude Lavalerie
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F22—STEAM GENERATION
    • F22B—METHODS OF STEAM GENERATION; STEAM BOILERS
    • F22B37/00—Component parts or details of steam boilers
    • F22B37/02—Component parts or details of steam boilers applicable to more than one kind or type of steam boiler
    • F22B37/26—Steam-separating arrangements
    • F22B37/28—Steam-separating arrangements involving reversal of direction of flow
    • F22B37/286—Steam-separating arrangements involving reversal of direction of flow specially adapted for steam generators of nuclear power plants

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  • the present invention relates to a drying assembly for water-vapor separation equipment located in the upper part of a steam generator with natural circulation, that is to say downstream of the production of steam.
  • the drying assembly according to the invention is intended in particular to ensure the separation of steam in a steam generator associated with a nuclear reactor, although this application is in no way limiting.
  • steam generators with natural circulation include water-steam separation equipment so that the steam produced by the tube bundle (or by combustible elements in the case of boiling water reactors) is as dry as possible at the outlet. of the generator.
  • separation equipment comprises two assemblies arranged in series in the direction of flow of the vapor, these assemblies being distinguished essentially by the amount of water that they can capture; a first set, or set of primary separators, is intended to remove most of the water to be separated from steam, while the second set, or drying set, makes it possible to capture the few particles of water which can be still entrained by steam downstream of the set of primary separators.
  • Drying devices are already known which make it possible to finely dry the steam coming from the primary separators, in particular by the French patent published under the number 2,275,731.
  • This document describes a separation equipment in which the drying assembly (called in the second moisture separator patent) consists of two groups of herringbone separators arranged one above the other, the entry of the steam to be dried being made by the periphery and its exit by the central zone.
  • French utility certificate published under No. 2 254 092 describes a set of separators formed by drying frames constituting either a bed of several concentric crowns or a radiating structure, an arrangement of pipes being provided at the base of the frames for collecting and draining the collected water, such arrangements are suitable for boiling water reactors.
  • drying devices comprising drying elements arranged so as to constitute cells of triangular section. Such an arrangement is described in German Patent No. 2819346. This arrangement does not allow the drying elements to be arranged over the entire surface of the cross section of the steam generator but only over a peripheral zone.
  • the present invention proposes a new design of a drying assembly which eliminates these drawbacks by allowing, on the one hand a modular construction and, on the other hand, ensuring a large available exchange surface in the smallest possible overall volume.
  • the drying assembly according to the invention therefore makes it possible to achieve a gain in volume at the level of the generator pressure envelope, which makes it possible to more closely adapt its design to the conditions of optimal thermohydraulic operation. It also ensures a distribution and organization of the steam circulation which promotes a particularly efficient use of the section offered within the steam generator as well as the improvement of the operation and therefore of the separation efficiency.
  • the drying assembly of the invention comprises a plurality of drying elements, steam guiding means organizing the admission of wet steam into the drying elements and the outlet of the dry steam from the drying elements and the separate water collection devices associated with the drying elements.
  • the drying assembly according to the invention is distinguished in a characteristic manner by the fact that it has a modular structure, all the drying elements being identical and distributed in a symmetry of ternary revolution and in that, in a first series of drying elements, said elements are arranged radially and associated with steam guiding means which alternately form around of the axis of revolution, an outlet volume of dry steam from one element and an intake volume of wet steam into the next element, the intake volumes each occupying in a lower cross section of the assembly an area identical to that occupied by each of the outlet volumes in an upper cross section of the assembly.
  • the drying assembly of the invention may advantageously comprise one or more concentric series of identical drying elements arranged radially as has just been defined, and in addition one or more series of drying elements constituting an annular peripheral ring where the elements, of parallelepiped shape and preferably identical to the drying elements which they surround, are arranged along the sides of a polygonal shape, each extending from the end of a radial element to the following radial element of the same series.
  • the means for guiding the steam associated with the drying elements of the second series provide for each an intake volume located radially outside the element, between the latter and a cylindrical enclosure, and on the other hand an outlet volume located radially inside the element, while for the drying elements of the first series, the volumes of admission into an element and of vapor outlet of the element are distributed alternately around the axis of revolution of the assembly. This gives a very homogeneous distribution of the passage of steam through the drying elements over the entire section of the upper part of the generator.
  • each element of the second series forms with two elements of the first series a cell of triangular shape whose three sides are constituted respectively by the three drying elements.
  • each cell is advantageously divided by a partition isolating the drying elements from each other and comprising three vertical plates extending in a part of each of the bisector planes of the cell and fixed to each other along a contact axis in the center of the cell, so as to delimit there three equal compartments, and on the other hand three transverse plates comprising two lower plates closing the base two compartments respectively and an upper plate closing the top of the third compartment.
  • the best operating conditions are generally obtained when the cells are arranged in the drying assembly so that the drying element adjacent to one of the compartments closed by a lower plate constitutes an element of the peripheral crown.
  • the drying assembly is limited by drying elements defining a hexagon.
  • identical hexagons can be combined to occupy a larger overall cross-section.
  • the drying assembly comprises water collection devices opening out into conduits oriented parallel to the axis of symmetry arranged at the outer radial end of each of the elements of the first series, said conduits serving also for collecting separate water in the drying elements of the second series, and the guide means comprise an annular plate delimiting a volume of admission of wet steam into the drying elements of the peripheral ring and extending between a cylindrical outer enclosure and the top of each of the elements of the second series.
  • FIG 1 there is shown schematically at 1 the outer casing of a steam generator whose dome-shaped top has an orifice for the outlet of the steam produced.
  • 3 there is shown the steam production chamber housed in the lower part of the casing 1 and in which is installed the traditional bundle of tubes (not shown) in which a primary fluid circulates and which ensures the vaporization of the secondary fluid (namely water) contained in the chamber 3.
  • the steam escapes from the chamber 3 by passing through a water-steam separator 4 of conventional structure and ensuring the collection of most of the water entrained by the steam as well as his return to the bedroom.
  • drying assembly 6 may also contain fine suspended water droplets, droplets of which the drying assembly according to the invention, generally designated in 6, ensures collection and return by pipes E to the part generator.
  • the drying assembly 6 is therefore, for this purpose, located downstream of the separator 4 and the steam 8 leaving this assembly 6 has a humidity compatible with the proper functioning of the devices using this steam.
  • the volume of the generator located downstream of the drying assembly is isolated from the rest of the generator by a separator plate generally designated at 7 and whose structure which will be described in detail below is such that it forces the "wet" steam to pass through the drying assembly 6 before reaching the discharge orifice 2, which is located above the drying assembly, substantially on its axis.
  • the drying assembly consists of drying elements 9a and 9b of parallelepiped shape and all identical, associated with partitions which guide the steam circulating vertically, from the bottom to the top, through the drying elements.
  • the latter are distributed in a symmetry of ternary revolution around the axis of the assembly, so as to form a modular structure with six modules in the particular case shown.
  • the elements 9a six in number in the example considered, are arranged radially so as to form a radiating star centered on the axis of the enclosure.
  • the second series constitutes a peripheral ring-shaped ring around the first.
  • the drying elements 9b are arranged there, vertically like the first, each on one side of a polygonal section, here hexagonal, and extending between one end of a radial element and the end of the following radial element.
  • the drying elements have a conventional structure such as that which is shown in FIG. 6 by way of example, constituted by a rectangular peripheral frame 10 with a U-section open at 11 and 12 on its two large opposite faces and filled with a stack. strips or rafters 15 forming chicane passages 15a allowing the frame to pass through with steam. These strips are arranged vertically so that the water droplets which deposit on them can slide towards the base of the frame 9 in which is formed a drainage channel 14 situated under a perforated plate 13 supporting the strips 15.
  • the separator plate 7 has been shown in dashed lines in FIG. 5. It comprises an annular external part 16 to which the drying elements 9b of the peripheral ring are fixed, this external part 16 closing the gaps located between the envelope 1 of form cylindrical and the dryers that occupy a rectangular section, each on one side of the polygon.
  • the plate 7 also comprises a central part 17, connected to the part 16 by radial members 18 advantageously extending along the length of the dryers 9a to which they are fixed; the central part 17 ensures the closure of the top of the central space left free between the ends of the dryers 9a.
  • the attachment of the dryers to the plate 7 can optionally be supplemented by vertical frames B (see FIGS. 1 and 5) integral with the plate 7 and to which are fixed the faces of the dryers 9a by which the dry steam leaves the dryers to gain the space above the plate 7 as will be explained later.
  • each dryer 9b constitutes with two consecutive radial dryers 9a, a cell generally designated in 19 ( Figure 5), and having a general shape of equilateral triangle.
  • each cell 19 is divided by a partition whose role is to achieve the isolation of each dryer 9a or 9b from the others.
  • This partitioning comprises three vertical plates 20, 21 and 22, which extend respectively from the center of the cell along each of the bisectors of the angles at the top of the cell, these plates being joined together along their common contact line H (FIG. 5 ) and delimiting three equal compartments in the cell; the partitioning is completed by two lower triangular plates 23 and 24 and an upper triangular plate 25.
  • the lower plate 23 closes the lower base of the compartment adjacent to the peripheral dryer 9b and it is linked to the lower edge S thereof and to the lower edges of the vertical plates 20 and 22, while the lower plate 24 closes off the same way a compartment adjacent to one of the radial dryers 9a by being linked to the lower edge thereof and to the lower edges of the vertical plates 20 and 21 (see Figure 3).
  • the upper triangular plate 25, in turn, closes the upper part of the third compartment of the cell and it is linked to the upper edge R of the second radial dryer 9a and to the upper edges of the vertical plates 21 and 22. (FIG. 3).
  • the steam can have free access to the radial dryers 9a by the intake compartments delimited by the vertical plates 21 and 22 and closed at their tops by the upper plates 25.
  • the steam is therefore forced to pass through the dryers 9a according to the arrows F 3 (FIG. 4) and it leaves therefrom through the outlet compartments delimited by the vertical plates 20 and 21 closed at their base by the plate 24 but open at their top to allow the steam to rise according to the arrow F 4 in the direction of the discharge orifice 2.
  • the lower plates 23, 24 and upper 25 will be slightly inclined in order to facilitate the guiding of the vapor.
  • the contact axis of the three vertical plates of the partitioning, in H, then extends only over part of the height of the cell, in its middle part.
  • FIG. 4 thus shows a collecting duct E collecting the separated water in a radial drying element and two adjacent peripheral drying elements, therefore belonging to two different cells of the modular construction.

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EP81401048A 1980-07-02 1981-06-30 Ensemble de séchage pour générateur de vapeur destiné notamment aux générateurs de vapeur de réacteurs nucléaires Expired EP0043760B1 (fr)

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