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CFD Simulation of Atmospheric Dispersion Influenced by Cooling Towers in Inland Nuclear Power Plant

  • WANG Bo;GUO Ruiping;ZHANG Qiong;WANG Erqi;YANG Yang;LIU Fudong;WANG Xuan;GENG Nan
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  • 1. Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, Beijing 100082, China;2. Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, Shanghai 200233, China;3. Beijing Intelligent United Innovation Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing 100027, China

Received date: 2013-07-31

  Revised date: 2013-10-18

  Online published: 2013-11-18

Abstract

The spatial and temporal variations of wind field and the atmospheric turbulence characteristics are important factors that affect the migration and dispersion of local atmospheric pollutants. Considering the complexity of meteorological and landform conditions around the inland nuclear power plant, the 3-Dimensional wind field and concentration field distribution of airborne radionuclide particle 137Cs, aerosol 131I and conventional gas pollutant CO dispersion in the atmosphere were carried out by a 3-Dimensional CFD (computational fluid dynamics) model Fluidyn-PANACHE. This method can be used to reasonably simulate the turbulent and circumferential flow around large cooling towers in the inland nuclear power plant, compensating the shortage in subtleness of the standard Gaussian model, as well as shortage in realizing multi-wind direction simulation in the calculation by the traditional CFD model. The calculation results of annual average atmospheric dispersion factor under normal operation indicated the seasonal differences, with maximum average dispersion factor in autumn, which were consistent with those suggested by Gaussian mixture model. Consequently, it's reasonable to arrange refueling overhauling in autumn to diminish pollution. The numerical simulation results from four typical fixed wind directions were compared and they are consistent with the observed values of wind tunnel experiments, providing new references for atmospheric dispersion research and evaluation on inland nuclear power plants in China.

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WANG Bo;GUO Ruiping;ZHANG Qiong;WANG Erqi;YANG Yang;LIU Fudong;WANG Xuan;GENG Nan . CFD Simulation of Atmospheric Dispersion Influenced by Cooling Towers in Inland Nuclear Power Plant[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2013 , 31(32) : 34 -41 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2013.32.005

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