US20150096721A1 - Emergency cooling system using a loop thermosyphon - Google Patents

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US20150096721A1
US20150096721A1 US14/390,634 US201314390634A US2015096721A1 US 20150096721 A1 US20150096721 A1 US 20150096721A1 US 201314390634 A US201314390634 A US 201314390634A US 2015096721 A1 US2015096721 A1 US 2015096721A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D15/00—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies
    • F28D15/02—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies in which the medium condenses and evaporates, e.g. heat pipes
    • F28D15/0266—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies in which the medium condenses and evaporates, e.g. heat pipes with separate evaporating and condensing chambers connected by at least one conduit; Loop-type heat pipes; with multiple or common evaporating or condensing chambers
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D15/00—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies
    • F28D15/02—Heat-exchange apparatus with the intermediate heat-transfer medium in closed tubes passing into or through the conduit walls ; Heat-exchange apparatus employing intermediate heat-transfer medium or bodies in which the medium condenses and evaporates, e.g. heat pipes
    • F28D15/06—Control arrangements therefor
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
    • G21C—NUCLEAR REACTORS
    • G21C15/00—Cooling arrangements within the pressure vessel containing the core; Selection of specific coolants
    • G21C15/02—Arrangements or disposition of passages in which heat is transferred to the coolant; Coolant flow control devices
    • G21C15/12—Arrangements or disposition of passages in which heat is transferred to the coolant; Coolant flow control devices from pressure vessel; from containment vessel
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    • G21—NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
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    • G21C15/00—Cooling arrangements within the pressure vessel containing the core; Selection of specific coolants
    • G21C15/18—Emergency cooling arrangements; Removing shut-down heat
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  • This invention relates to an emergency cooling system using a loop thermosyphon for circulating working fluid transporting heat between an evaporating portion and a condensing portion.
  • the thermosyphon is a heat transfer device comprised of a sealed conduit and a working fluid encapsulated therein such as water, alcohol or ammonium.
  • a heat transportation is provided by an vaporization of the working fluid caused by locally applying a heat to the conduit, and a condensation of the vapor migrated to a site where a temperature and a pressure are low.
  • non-condensable gas is evacuated from the conduit and only the working fluid is encapsulated in the thermosyphon.
  • the condensed working fluid is returned to the evaporating portion utilizing a capillary pressure or gravitationally.
  • thermoelectric element thus structured may also be called a heat pipe.
  • a heat transporting direction is limited to a vertical direction from the upper side to the lower side. Therefore, the heat pipe of this kind is called a thermosyphon.
  • a straight or curved pipe is used as a container (or a casing) of the heat pipe or the thermosyphon.
  • One end of the container is placed at a site where the temperature is high to serve as the evaporating portion (or heating portion), and other end of the container is placed at a site where the temperature is low to serve as the condensing portion (or cooling portion).
  • the working fluid vaporized at the evaporating portion flows toward the condensing portion, and the flow rate of the fluid reaches sonic speed. Then, the working fluid condensed at the condensing portion is returned to the evaporating portion through the wick provided on an inner wall of the container.
  • a flow channel for the vaporized working fluid and a flow channel for the condensed working fluid are too close to each other, a flow of the condensed working fluid toward the evaporating portion may be hindered by the vapor flow. In this case, the working fluid cannot be delivered sufficiently to the evaporating portion thereby deteriorating a heat transporting performance.
  • the loop heat pipe or thermosyphon is formed into a cyclic structure while connecting the evaporating portion with the condensing portion by a vapor pipe and a return pipe. That is, the flow channel for the vaporized working fluid and the flow channel for the condensed working fluid are sufficiently isolated from each other. Therefore, in the loop heat pipe or thermosyphon, the flow of the condensed working fluid toward the evaporating portion will not be hindered by the vapor flow so that the heat transporting performance can be enhanced.
  • a heat accumulation type steam generator using the loop heat pipe is described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2501 discloses.
  • a switching valve is disposed in the fluid return pipe for returning the working fluid from the condensing portion to the evaporating portion. Therefore, a dryout of the heat pipe may be achieved by closing the switching valve to block the working fluid flowing toward the evaporating portion. Consequently, the working fluid disappears from the evaporating portion so that a heat transportation of the heat pipe is stopped. The heat transportation may be restarted by opening the switching valve thereby allowing the working fluid to flow downwardly toward the evaporating portion. Consequently, the working fluid is vaporized at the evaporation portion to resume the heat transportation. In this situation, however, the working fluid is delivered to the evaporating portion in the dry condition.
  • Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-103679 describes a structure to prevent the Leidenfrost phenomenon. According to the teachings of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-103679, a structure comprises a needlelike protrusion formed by cutting and bending a tip of the metal strand of a mesh body, and the protrusion penetrates into the dew to transfer the heat directly to the dew.
  • the loop thermosyphon As described, in the loop heat pipe or the loop thermosyphon (both devices will simply be called a “loop thermosyphon” hereafter), the working fluid is evaporated by an external heat, and the vapor of the working fluid flows toward the condensing portion where the temperature and the pressure is low to radiate the heat. For this reason, the loop thermosyphon is allowed to be operated automatically without requiring any specific power source, and heat transporting performance thereof is excellent. This characteristic is useful for the emergency cooling when emergency or abnormal situation happens in a heating facility or system. For instance, if the loop thermosyphon is used in the emergency cooling system for a core or a nuclear fuel storage facility of a nuclear reactor, a temperature of the nuclear reactor will not be raised abnormally even if a power is lost.
  • Such emergency situation is brought about a loss of power or cooling water. That is, in the emergency case, the temperature of the evaporating portion may have been raised abnormally when the loop thermosyphon is started. In this situation, if the working fluid is delivered to the evaporating portion, the heat transfer to the working fluid is disturbed by the afore-mentioned Leidenfrost phenomenon. Consequently, a cooling operation may be delayed, or the cooling operation may not be carried out.
  • the needlelike protrusion taught by Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-103679 may be applied to the inner wall of the evaporating portion. However, although the needlelike protrusion facilitates the heat transfer to the dew of the working fluid, it may not solve the Leidenfrost phenomenon completely. Therefore, the conventional loop thermosyphon has to be improved to be used in the emergency cooling system for the nuclear reactor.
  • the present invention has been conceived noting the above-mentioned technical problems, and it is therefore an object of the present invention is to provide an emergency cooling system using a loop thermosyphon that has an excellent cooling performance and that can be started immediately.
  • the present invention is applied to an emergency cooling system comprised of: a loop thermosyphon, in which an evaporating portion at which heat exchange with a cooling object takes place is connected with a condensing portion at which a heat radiation takes place through a vapor pipe and a return pipe in a manner to form a cyclic conduit; a condensable working fluid that is circulated within the loop thermosyphon to be evaporated by a heat of the cooling object at the evaporating portion, and to be condensed at the condensing portion to radiate the heat conducted from the cooling object; and a switching valve that is disposed on the return pipe to selectively allow the working fluid in a liquid phase to be returned from the condensing portion to the evaporating portion.
  • the emergency cooling system is provided with a heat transfer pipe, which is arranged in the evaporating portion and to which the heat of the cooling object is conducted; a heat transfer protrusion that is formed on an inner wall of the heat transfer pipe to penetrate through a dew of the working fluid; and a preheating portion, which is formed within a portion of the return pipe connected to the heat transfer pipe, and to which the heat of the cooling object is conducted.
  • the preheating portion is formed within the portion of the return pipe extending inside of the cooling object.
  • the preheating portion may be formed into a meander pipe by bending the return pipe.
  • the condensing portion is situated higher than the evaporating portion, and the storage tank is connected with a lower portion of the condensing portion to hold the working fluid in the liquid phase.
  • the emergency cooling system according to the present invention may be used to cool a container holding an atomic fuel.
  • the evaporating portion is comprised of: an upper header pipe; an lower header pipe; and a plurality of the heat transfer pipes arranged in parallel with one another while being connected with the upper header pipe and the lower header pipe.
  • the condensing portion is comprised of: another upper header pipe; another lower header pipe; a plurality of a radiating pipes arranged in parallel with one another while being connected with said another upper header pipe and said another lower header pipe; and a plurality of radiator fins mounted on the radiating pipes to radiate the heat to the air.
  • the switching valve is opened to deliver the working fluid in the liquid phase to the evaporating portion to cool the cooling object in case of emergency.
  • the return pipe leading the working fluid in the liquid phase partially serves as the preheating portion receiving the heat from the cooling object.
  • a temperature of the cooling object is raised significantly. Therefore, a temperature of the working fluid flowing toward the evaporating portion is raised almost to the saturation temperature during passing through the preheating portion. In this situation, since the evaporating portion has already been heated by the heat of the cooling object, the liquid phase working fluid is heated drastically to be turned into dews covered with a vapor film.
  • the dews of the working fluid is allowed to be heated from inside through the protrusion.
  • the heat can be conducted efficiently to the dews of the working fluid that has been heated preliminary.
  • the Leidenfrost phenomenon can be solved to facilitate the heat conduction to the liquid phase working fluid. That is, the cooling object can be cooled efficiently through the heat transfer pipes. Consequently, the working fluid is vaporized and flows toward the condensing portion. Then, the heat transported by the working fluid in the vapor phase is radiated from the condensing portion and the working fluid is condensed again.
  • the working fluid thus condensed is again delivered to the evaporating portion through the return pipe to be evaporated while drawing the heat from the cooling object.
  • the heat of the cooling object is transported and released to outside by the working fluid circulating in the system while being evaporated and condensed alternately.
  • the liquid phase working fluid and the vapor phase working fluid flow through different routes. Therefore, the liquid phase working fluid and the vapor phase working fluid will not conflict with each other so that the working fluid can be returned to the evaporating portion in ample amounts. For this reason, a heat transporting efficiency and a cooling performance of the emergency cooling system can be enhanced.
  • the emergency cooling system of the present invention can be operated without requiring an external power. Therefore, the cooling object can be cooled certainly even if the electric power is lost.
  • the condensing portion is situated higher than the evaporating portion, and the storage tank is connected with the lower portion of the condensing portion. That is, the working fluid in the liquid phase is allowed to be returned gravitationally to the evaporating portion. Therefore, the working fluid is allowed to be returned certainly to the evaporating portion so that the dry-out of the evaporating portion can be prevented certainly, and the cooling object can be cooled certainly.
  • the emergency cooling system of the present invention may also be used to cool a containment of the atomic fuel which may cause a serious accident.
  • FIG. 1 is a view schematically showing a preferred example of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional view showing a heat-transfer protrusion according to the present invention.
  • the present invention may be applied to a heat generating facility that potentially causes an accident under a situation where a temperature thereof cannot be controlled.
  • the present invention is applied to a facility for converting thermal energy resulting from an exothermal reaction into a mechanical power or an electric power.
  • the present invention is applied to a fuel container of a nuclear plant.
  • the loop thermosyphon of the present invention is entirely formed into a cyclic pathway, and comprised of an evaporating portion at which a heat of the cooling object is drawn, and a condensing portion from which the heat is radiated.
  • the evaporating portion and the condensing portion are connected through a vapor pipe and a return pipe, and a condensable working fluid encapsulated therein returns gravitationally from the condensing portion to the evaporating portion.
  • a heat receiving area and a radiating area may be enlarged.
  • the cooling system according to the present invention is used for emergencies. Therefore, a switching valve is disposed in the return pipe to start the system on an emergency basis. To this end, a fuse closing the valve is unlocked automatically or broken in case of emergency to open the valve without requiring external power.
  • the emergency cooling system is adapted to radiate heat of the containment 1 without using an external power.
  • the emergency cooling system is comprised of a loop thermosyphon 2 for transporting the heat from the containment 1 to the air. That is, the loop thermosyphon 2 is a thermoelectric element (or heat transfer means) adapted to transport the heat in the form of latent heat of condensable working fluid.
  • the loop thermosyphon 2 is comprised of an evaporating portion 3 where an evaporation of the working fluid takes place, and a condensing portion 4 where a condensation of the working fluid takes place.
  • the evaporating portion 3 and the condensing portion 4 are connected through a vapor pipe 5 and a return pipe 6 in a circular manner.
  • the evaporating portion 3 is arranged inside of the containment 1 in a manner to exchange the heat with the containment 1 .
  • the evaporating portion 3 is comprised of a plurality of a heat transfer pipe 7 arranged in parallel with one another, an upper header pipe 8 , and a lower header pipe 9 .
  • An upper end of each heat transfer pipe 7 is individually connected with the upper header pipe 8
  • a bottom end of each heat transfer pipe 7 is individually connected with the lower header pipe 9 .
  • Such piping structure provides an enlarged surface area of the evaporating portion 3 . As shown in FIG.
  • a plurality of heat transfer protrusions 10 adapted to penetrate into dews resulting from the Leidenfrost phenomenon are formed on inner walls of the heat transfer pipe 7 and the header pipes 8 and 9 .
  • the heat transfer protrusion 10 is formed into a needlelike conical shape so that the protrusion 10 can penetrate into a dew 11 utilizing a strenuous movement of the dew 11 caused by heat.
  • the condensing portion 4 is situated in the air above the level of the evaporating portion 3 .
  • the condensing portion 4 is comprised of a plurality of a radiating pipes 13 arranged in parallel with one another, an upper header pipe 14 , and a lower header pipe 15 .
  • a plurality of radiator fins 12 are mounted to each radiating pipe 13 , and an upper end of each radiating pipe 13 is connected individually with the upper header pipe 14 and a bottom end of each radiating pipe 13 is connected individually with the lower header pipe 15 .
  • the upper header pipe 8 of the evaporating portion 3 is connected with the upper header pipe 13 of the condensing portion 4 through the vapor pipe 5
  • the lower header pipe 9 of the evaporating portion 3 is connected with the lower header pipe 15 of the condensing portion 4 through the return pipe 6 .
  • the loop thermosyphon 2 is entirely formed into a circuit conduit.
  • a diameter of the vapor pipe 5 is larger than that of the return pipe 6 .
  • condensable working fluid such as water or alcohol is encapsulated.
  • a portion of the return pipe 6 within a predetermined length from the evaporating portion 3 serves as a preheating portion 16 . Therefore, a temperature of the liquid phase working fluid flowing through the preheating portion 16 can be heated preliminary by exchanging heat with containment 1 . To this end, one of the end portions of the return pipe 6 within a predetermined length from the evaporating portion 3 extends through the containment 1 .
  • the preheating portion 16 may be formed by partially bending the preheating portion 16 to form a meander pipe so that the containment 1 may also be cooled by the preheating portion 16 .
  • a switching valve 17 is disposed on a predetermined portion of the return pipe 6 between the condensing portion 4 and the preheating portion 16 .
  • the switching valve 17 is opened in case of emergency without requiring external power such as electricity.
  • the switching valve 17 is closed by a fuse or a locking mechanism under the normal condition, and the fuse or the locking mechanism is melted or broken to open the switching valve 17 in case of emergency so as to cool the containment 1 urgently.
  • a storage tank 18 for holding the working fluid in the liquid phase is connected with a lower portion of the condensing portion 4 , more specifically, to the lower header pipe 15 . Given that the switching valve 17 is closed, the working fluid condensed into the liquid phase at the condensing portion 4 flows gradually into the storage tank 18 . Since the storage tank 18 is connected to the cyclic conduit, the incondensable gas such as the air is also evacuated from the storage tank 18 so that only the working fluid is allowed to enter into the storage tank 18 .
  • the emergency cooling system thus structured will be explained hereinafter.
  • the temperature of the containment 1 is not especially high and the cooling operation of the loop thermosyphon 2 will not be carry out. Therefore, the switching valve 17 is closed.
  • the working fluid is not delivered to the evaporating portion 3 so that the evaporating portion 3 is dried out. Therefore, the heat transportation utilizing the evaporation and the condensation of the working fluid is not caused.
  • the temperature of the containment 1 is raised excessively by a heat resulting from a collapse of the fuel rod.
  • the switching valve 17 is opened in response to such an emergency thereby allowing the working fluid in the condensing portion 4 and the storage tank 18 to flow down through the return pipe 6 gravitationally (i.e., by a hydraulic head pressure).
  • the portion of the return pipe 6 within a predetermined length from the evaporating portion 3 serves as the preheating portion 16 . Therefore, the working fluid in liquid phase is heated at the preheating portion 16 so that the temperature of the working fluid is raised and the working fluid is evaporated partially. In this situation, the Leidenfrost phenomenon can be inhibited to facilitate the heat transportation to the liquid phase working fluid by forming the heat transfer protrusions 10 shown in FIG. 2 on the inner wall of the preheating portion 16 . Consequently, the working fluid preliminary heated almost to the saturation temperature is delivered to the evaporating portion 3 .
  • the working fluid is delivered initially to the lower header pipe 9 , and the heat transfer pipes 7 are gradually filled with the working fluid. That is, the fluid level in the heat transfer pipe 7 rises with an increase in quantity of the working fluid delivered to the lower header pipe 15 .
  • the evaporating portion 3 Before the power was lost accidentally, the evaporating portion 3 has been kept in the dry condition so that the temperatures of the lower header pipe 9 and the heat transfer pipes 7 have been raised considerably. Therefore, the working fluid delivered to the lower header pipe 9 is contacted sequentially with the inner walls of the lower header pipe 9 and the heat transfer pipe 7 and evaporated rapidly. As a result, the dews 11 covered with the vapor of the working fluid are created. That is, the Leidenfrost phenomenon occurs at least locally. However, a plurality of the heat transfer protrusions 10 shown in FIG. 2 are formed on the inner walls of the lower header pipe 9 and the heat transfer pipe 7 .
  • protrusions 10 penetrate into the dews 11 of the working fluid so that the dews 11 are heated by the protrusions 10 from the inside. If the surface of the dew 11 is covered with the vapor film, the dew 11 is prevented from being contacted with the inner walls of the lower header pipe 9 and the heat transfer pipes 7 , and this makes difficult to transfer the heat to the to the dews 11 . However, the heat can be conducted efficiently to the dews 11 by the heat transfer protrusions 10 .
  • the liquid phase working fluid flowing through the return pipe 6 has already been heated to almost the saturation temperature by the preheating portion 16 on the way to the evaporating portion 3 . Therefore, the working fluid is immediately evaporated when reaches the evaporating portion 3 .
  • the temperature of the evaporating potion 3 has been raised considerably after the occurrence of emergency. For this reason, even if the working fluid in the liquid phase has already been heated nearly to the saturation temperature, the Leidenfrost phenomenon may be caused in this situation.
  • the heat is conducted efficiently to the dews 11 of the working fluid resulting from the Leidenfrost phenomenon from inside by the protrusions 10 . Therefore, the heat transfer to the working fluid can be facilitated to vaporize the working fluid rapidly in large quantity by thus preliminary heating the working fluid almost to the saturation temperature while solving film boiling.
  • the vapor thus generated by the heat transfer pipes 7 ascends to the upper header pipe 8 , and then migrates to the condensing portion 4 exposed to the air to be cooled. Therefore, the heat of the vaporized working fluid is radiated through the radiating pipes 13 and the radiating fins 12 .
  • the heat of the containment 1 is conveyed in the form of latent heat and radiated to the air so that the containment 1 is cooled naturally indirectly.
  • the temperature of the working fluid is lowered so that the working fluid is condensed to be brought into the liquid phase, and falls to the lower header pipe 15 .
  • the condensing portion 4 is situated higher than the evaporating portion 3 so that the working fluid thus brought into liquid phase is allowed to be returned gravitationally (i.e., by a hydraulic head pressure) to the evaporating portion 3 through the return pipe 6 .
  • the working fluid thus delivered again to the evaporating portion 3 is evaporated by the heat of the containment 1 .
  • the temperature of the inner walls of the lower header pipe 9 and the heat transfer pipes 7 has been lowered to some extent by the working fluid delivered thereto previously. Therefore, the evaporation of the working fluid can be facilitated by thus heating the liquid phase working fluid to some extent by the preheating portion 16 while preventing the occurrence of the Leidenfrolst phenomenon.
  • the working fluid is delivered automatically to the cooling object by opening the switching valve 17 , and the heat can be transported by the working fluid continuously to the air. Therefore, even if the power is lost, the temperature of the cooling object such as the containment 1 can be maintained to be lower than a temperature which might destroy the cooling object 1 .
  • the preheating portion 16 and the heat transfer protrusions 10 prevent an occurring of the Leidenfrost phenomenon so that the heat transmission to the working fluid and the evaporation of the working fluid can be facilitated. Therefore, the cooling object can be cooled immediately and certainly in the begging of emergency situation.
  • the emergency cooling system is applied to the containment 1 holding the atomic fuel in the preferred example, the emergency cooling system of the present invention may also be applied to other facilities necessary to be cooled in the emergency situation.

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