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Single-channel thermal analysis of fully ceramic microencapsulated fuel via two-temperature homogenized model

  • Yoonhee Lee
  • , Nam Zin Cho*
  • , Sun Kyo Chung
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Korea Electric Power

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Abstract

The fully ceramic microencapsulated (FCM) fuel, one of the accident tolerant fuel (ATF) concepts, consists of TRISO particles randomly dispersed in SiC matrix. This high heterogeneity in compositions leads to difficulty in explicit thermal calculation of such a fuel. For thermal analysis of a fuel element in very high temperature reactors (VHTRs) which has a similar configuration to the FCM fuel, a two-temperature homogenized model was proposed by the authors. The model was developed using particle transport Monte Carlo method for heat conduction problems. It gives more realistic temperature profiles and provides the fuel-kernel and graphite temperatures separately. In this paper, we apply the two-temperature homogenized model to single-channel thermal analysis of the FCM fuel element for steady- and transient-states using 2-D FEM/1-D FDM hybrid method. The results of analyses are compared to those of conventional UO2 fuel having the same geometric dimension and operating conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThermal Hydraulics
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791845905
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE 2014 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 2014.07.72014.07.11

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE
Volume2A

Conference

Conference2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE 2014
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period14.07.714.07.11

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