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@PHDTHESIS{Kubelt:773318,
author = {Kubelt, Christian Martin},
othercontributors = {Allelein, Hans-Josef and Zehfuß, Jochen and Pitsch, Heinz},
title = {{A}blagerungsverhalten von {K}ernschmelz- und
{B}randaerosolen in einem {DWR}-{S}icherheitsbehälter},
school = {Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Aachen},
reportid = {RWTH-2019-11028},
pages = {1 Online-Ressource (ii, 194 Seiten) : Illustrationen,
Diagramme},
year = {2019},
note = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen
University 2020; Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische
Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2019},
abstract = {A main focus of reactor safety research is the mitigation
of radiological consequences during a severe accident of a
nuclear power plant. In the case of such an event a
significant amount of radioactivity is released into the
containment in form of aerosols. Knowledge about their size
distribution, concentration and chemical composition during
a severe accident scenario is crucial regarding source term
estimations for environment and also accident management
measures, e.g. the design of venting systems. Even if much
knowledge is available concerning aerosol behaviour under
the complex boundary conditions of a severe accident, only
little is known about the impact of fire aerosols on the
characteristics of the nuclear aerosols in the containment
atmosphere. The current work is an experimental
investigation aiming to examine the potential impact of fire
products on core melt species and their depletion behaviour.
For this purpose an experimental facility is set up being
able to continuously generate, mix and measure chemically
representative core melt species and representative cable
fire aerosols. As chemically representative core melt
species the materials SnO2, CsI, Ag and Cs2MoO4 are used. As
representative cable fire products pyrolysis products and
soot from under-ventilated as well as well-ventilated
combustion of a fire resistant non-corrosive containment
cable (FRNC-BX) and soot of a well-ventilated PVC cable fire
are generated. Then single components and multi-component
aerosols were mixed with fire aerosols in order to study
changes in size distribution, concentration, morphology and
chemical composition. Results show that the presence of fire
aerosols induces physical and chemical interaction. Compared
to representative core melt aerosols, cable fire aerosols
are a large source of small particles having an aerodynamic
number mean diameter of about 0,3 µm, whereas the used core
melt aerosol particles are twice as large. Physical
interaction leads to a broader size distribution which is
shifted to smaller mean particle sizes. The depletion
behavior is enhanced for aerosol species with small initial
diameters by preventing accumulation of particles in a size
range between 1 µm and 3 µm AMMD. This is mainly observed
for CsI and Cs2MoO4. For large silver particle, which mainly
sediment during depletion, a reduced deposition due to cable
fire aerosols is observed. Significant results concern the
chemical impact of cable fire aerosols on the composition of
CsI particles during the experimental feed-in and depletion
phase. Results confirmed that a decomposition of CsI
particles under the presence of cable fire products takes
place. The decreasing iodine to cesium ratios are leading to
the conclusion that volatile, probably organic iodine was
formed. Volatile iodine species production is known to be
dominated by radiolytic reactions, but an additional
production path due to fire aerosol interaction may also
have a non-negligible impact on the airborne iodine activity
and iodine source term estimation.},
cin = {413110},
ddc = {620},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)413110_20140620$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2019-11028},
url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/773318},
}