摘要:
A vapor generating unit having a U-shaped tube bundle is provided with an orificed downcomer shroud and a fluid flow distribution plate between the lower hot and cold leg regions to promote fluid entrained sediment deposition in proximity to an apertured blowdown pipe.
摘要:
A steam generator for a pressurized-water coolant nuclear reactor is of the type having a vertical housing with its lower portion closed by a horizontal tube sheet in which the inlet and outlet legs of an inverted U-shaped tube bundle are mounted, one forming an inlet leg and the other forming an outlet leg for the pressurized-water coolant circulated via the tube bundle and the reactor. The tube bundle is peripherally enclosed by a vertical shell forming a feed-water descent space between it and the housing with this space adjacently above the tube sheet peripherally opening to the latter for radially inwardly directed feed-water flow thereover through the interspaced tubes of the tube bundle legs and upward flow through the latter to generate steam in the housing. The feed-water flow over the tube sheet and through the tubes of the inlet leg, which is the hotter of the two legs, tends to locally boil so that corrosion-promoting products in the feed water are concentrated to form deposits introducing the danger of corrosion failure on the part of the tubes and/or tube sheet. To prevent this, means are provided for removing a portion of the feed water from adjacently above the tube sheet and between the interspaced tubes of the inlet leg, the means preferably removing a plurality of flows of feed water from a plurality of positions interspaced transversely over the tube sheet. The constant removal of the flows of feed-water increases the rate with which the feed water radially flows inwardly over the tube sheet and upwardly through the tube bundle, consequently reducing or eliminating the boiling tendency throughout the critical area where this tendency occurs over the portion of the tube sheet in which the inlet leg of the tube bundle is mounted.
摘要:
Removal of sediment caused by the settling of suspended particulate material in the secondary liquid circulated through a vapor generator of the shell and tube type is effected by providing a baffle plate closely spaced from the tube sheet therein to define a plenum therebetween. One or more blowdown lines extend from the plenum and the baffle plate contains a plurality of drilled holes through which a limited portion of the secondary liquid passes at a high velocity conducting sediment with it to the blowdown plenum for removal through the blowdown lines.
摘要:
The invention relates to a flexible lance for machining or inspecting a tubesheet of a boiler, having a first strip made of a flexible, metallic material and a second strip made of a flexible, metallic material, wherein the second strip is arranged on the first strip in the longitudinal direction, and wherein at least the second strip has a shaped portion extending in the longitudinal direction for receiving a supply line for a machining or inspection head arranged at the free end of the flexible lance, and wherein the first strip is connected to the second strip such that an open side of the shaped portion is covered by the first strip so as to form a guide channel, and wherein at least one edge region of the flexible lance, extending in the longitudinal direction, is formed only by the first strip or the second strip.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for manipulating a tool within the secondary side of a steam generator having a tube sheet with a tube bundle having a plurality of heat exchange tubes extending from the tube sheet in rows with an annulus extending around the heat exchange tubes on a periphery of the tube bundle, between the tubes and a wrapper which surrounds the tube bundle. A robot is introduced into the annulus and extends a probe with a tool across selected lanes between the rows of tubes. A method and apparatus is also disclosed for cleaning sludge from the top of a tube sheet that includes introducing a moveable suction apparatus having attached vacuum inlets into either the no tube lane or the circumferential annulus and sludge vacuuming the top of the tube sheet.
摘要:
A method of cleaning sludge from the top of tube sheet (34′) of a nuclear steam generator (10) includes introducing a moveable suction apparatus (120) having attached vacuum inlets (148), said moveable suction apparatus introduced through handholes (62) in the side of the generator and into either the no tube lane (60) or the circumferential annulus, and sludge vacuuming the top of the tube sheet (34′).
摘要:
A miniature sludge lance for a steam generator in a pressurized water nuclear reactor is provided. The sludge lance is structured to enter the steam generator via an inspection opening and has a body sufficiently thin to fit between adjacent tubes. The sludge lance rail has at least two types of nozzle assemblies that may be attached thereto. One nozzle assembly rotates and another nozzle assembly translates in a vertical direction. A drive assembly, a mounting assembly, an oscillation assembly, and flow straighteners are also provided.
摘要:
A miniature sludge lance for a steam generator in a pressurized water nuclear reactor is provided. The sludge lance is structured to enter the steam generator via an inspection opening and has a body sufficiently thin to fit between adjacent tubes. The sludge lance rail has at least two types of nozzle assemblies that may be attached thereto. One nozzle assembly rotates and another nozzle assembly translates in a vertical direction. A drive assembly, a mounting assembly, an oscillation assembly, and flow straighteners are also provided.
摘要:
Provided is a lancing device in which two guide rails and washing robots are installed in both directions of a hand hole, and each washing robot removes precipitates from the center of a steam generator, and therefore precipitates do not flow backwards, thereby completely removing precipitates.
摘要:
Provided area cleaning apparatus and an associated method of using the disclosed apparatus wherein the apparatus utilizes one or more nozzles configured to provide a coherent stream of one or more cleaning fluids for removing accumulated fine particulate matter, sludge, from surfaces. The nozzles may be sized, arranged and configured to provide coherent streams that maintain the initial stream diameter for a substantial portion of the maximum dimension of the space being cleaned. The apparatus and method are expected to be particularly useful in the cleaning of heat exchangers incorporating a plurality of substantially vertical and narrowly spaced tubes by directing cleansing streams along a plurality of intertube spaces.