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Mario De Salve, Giovanni Del Tin, Bruno Panella
Nuclear Technology | Volume 111 | Number 2 | August 1995 | Pages 275-282
Technical Paper | Nuclear Criticality Safety Special / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35137
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Experimental data and an analysis of outsurge transients in a small pressurizer at constant electrical power input are discussed. The test section is a vertical cylinder that is connected at the bottom to a cylindrical horizontal section where the steam is produced by electric heaters. The range of the pressure is from 3 to 6 MPa. The fluid and outer wall temperatures are measured at several elevations, and the flashing rate and the fluid/ wall heat transfer are derived from the pressure and temperature time history data. The pressure transient is simulated by means of an extension of the Lu and Simpson prediction method.