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VALIDATION OF SIMBAT-PWR USING STANDARD CODE OF COBRA-EN ON REACTOR TRANSIENT CONDITION Muhammad Darwis Isnaini; Muhammad Subekti
JURNAL TEKNOLOGI REAKTOR NUKLIR TRI DASA MEGA Vol 18, No 1 (2016): Februari 2016
Publisher : Pusat Teknologi Dan Keselamatan Reaktor Nuklir (PTKRN)

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The validation of Pressurized Water Reactor typed Nuclear Power Plant simulator developed by BATAN (SIMBAT-PWR) using standard code of COBRA-EN on reactor transient condition has been done. The development of SIMBAT-PWR has accomplished several neutronics and thermal-hydraulic calculation modules. Therefore, the validation of the simulator is needed, especially in transient reactor operation condition. The research purpose is for characterizing the thermal-hydraulic parameters of PWR1000 core, which be able to be applied or as a comparison in developing the SIMBAT-PWR. The validation involves the calculation of the thermal-hydraulic parameters using COBRA-EN code. Furthermore, the calculation schemes are based on COBRA-EN with fixed material properties and dynamic properties that calculated by MATPRO subroutine (COBRA-EN+MATPRO) for reactor condition of startup, power rise and power fluctuation from nominal to over power. The comparison of the temperature distribution at nominal 100% power shows that the fuel centerline temperature calculated by SIMBAT-PWR has 8.76% higher result than COBRA-EN result and 7.70% lower result than COBRA-EN+MATPRO. In general, SIMBAT-PWR calculation results on fuel temperature distribution are mostly between COBRA-EN and COBRA-EN+MATPRO results. The deviations of the fuel centerline, fuel surface, inner and outer cladding as well as coolant bulk temperature in the SIMBAT-PWR and the COBRA-EN calculation, are due to the value difference of the gap heat transfer coefficient and the cladding thermal conductivity.
A COMPARISON IN THERMAL-HYDRAULICS ANALYSIS OF PWR1000 USING FIXED AND TEMPERATURE FUNCTION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY Muhammad Darwis Isnaini; Etty Mutiara
Jurnal Pengembangan Energi Nuklir Vol 18, No 1 (2016): Juni 2016
Publisher : Pusat Kajian Sistem Energi Nuklir, Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional

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A COMPARISON IN THERMAL-HYDRAULICS ANALYSIS OF PWR-1000 USING FIXEDAND TEMPERATURE FUNCTION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY. A study to analyze theinfluence of the fuel-cladding’s thermal conductivity on the sub-channel of pressurized waterreactor 1000 (PWR-1000) using COBRA-EN computer code was conducted. The purpose ofthis research is to gain complete understanding of sub-channel thermal-hydraulic aspectsrelated to fuel performance, especially the appropriate range of thermal conductivity of UO2fuel (kf) and zircaloy-4 cladding (kc) in order to obtain an accurate sub-channel analysisrelated to its safety behavior. The research was conducted by comparing the calculation withthe combination values of the fixed kf and kc, as well as the calculation using kf and kc astemperature function. The fixed kf using in this calculation were 5.26 W/m.K, 3.85 W/m.K,3.60 W/m.K, 3.18 W/m.K, 2.90 W/m.K, 2.53 W/m.K and 2.34 W/m.K, while the kc were13.0 W/m.K, 15.57 W/m.K, 16.75 W/m.K, 17.94 W/m.K and 18.69 W/m.K. The maximumfuel center linet emperature using kf and kca s temperature function (MATPRO) for hot sub -channel was 1717.65°C and taken as the reference in accepting the calculation result usingfixed thermal conductivity. The analysis was accepted, if the deviation between bothtemperature was in the range of -10% to 10%. This analysis results for hot sub-chan nelwas accepted for the calculation using value of kf in the range of 3.18 - 2.90 W/m.K for allall variation value of kcW. hile the calculation using value of koff 2.53 W/m.K was accepet dfor value of kc in the range of 16.76 - 18.69 W/m.K