ERSEC Tube (Inside) (SET facility)

CCVM Key:

3.12

Country:

France

Organization:

CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique

Operating years:

Reference reactor:

Westinghouse PWR ;; FRAMATOME PWR

Availability:

Dismantled

Objectives:

Study thermal behaviour during reflooding in a simple test section with given boundary and initial conditions

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Experimental conditions

Pressure min:0.1 MPa

Pressure max:0.6 MPa

Temperature max:600 °C

Power max:6.27 kW

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Components details:

Tube is made of inconel 600 and its dimensions are : - Heated length : 3.325m - Inner diameter : 12.10^-3 m - outer diameter : 14.10^-3 m

P. Clement, et al.: "Refroidissement de secours des reacteurs a eau legere. Essais de nenoyage en geometrie tubulaire". Note CEA, Service des Transferts Thermiques TT no. 156, April 1979
ERSEC, investigation of the reflooding phase of a Loss of Coolant Accident

http://www.oecd-nea.org/tools/abstract/detail/csni1026/