Study of functional characteristics for safety system check valve using scaled model

4/04/2015 2015 - #01 Thermal physics and thermal hydraulics

Baluyev D.E. Gusev D.V. Meshkov S.I. Nikanorov O.L. Osipov S.L. Rogozhkin S.A. Rukhlin S.V. Shepelev S.F.

https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2015.1.11

The paper provides results of experimental scale model studies on functional characteristics of a check valve used in the safety system of a liquid-metal-cooled reactor. The proposed check valve design with a hollow ball as a blocking element has a number of substantial advantages compared with the most widely spread valves with disc-type flaps used as blocking elements. The advantages are valve operation independent of functioning of other safety systems and absence of friction pairs. The need to conduct experimental studies is determined both by the novelty of the proposed check valve design and by absence of verified computational validation methods for functioning of this type of valves. In this connection, the paper presents a computational validation method for fluid-dynamic parameters of the proposed check valve design and similitude parameters describing fluid-dynamic characteristics of the check valve – numeric values of the similitude parameters were obtained in the course of calculations made by the ANSYS-CFX commercial fluid-dynamic code. The paper describes the experimental model of the check valve with two alternative options of the blocking element – one in the form of a hollow ball in a support bowl; and another one, in the form of a semi-sphere on a guide rod going through the support sleeve on the valve spindle. Provided is a brief description of the test facility. Check valve model fluid-dynamic characteristics obtained in the course of experimental studies are shown in diagrams as functions of some design and operation parameters of the model.

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liquid metal cooled reactor safety system check valve hydro-dynamic force similarity criteria check valve model test facility

Link for citing the article: Baluyev D.E., Gusev D.V., Meshkov S.I., Nikanorov O.L., Osipov S.L., Rogozhkin S.A., Rukhlin S.V., Shepelev S.F. Study of functional characteristics for safety system check valve using scaled model. Izvestiya vuzov. Yadernaya Energetika. 2015, no. 1, pp. 103-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.26583/npe.2015.1.11 (in Russian).