Hydrogen Distribution Assessment With CFD Tool in Help of Severe Accident Management Available to Purchase

This paper presents the results of an analysis of the application of CFD tool to help hydrogen management. Some information pointed out the problem of hydrogen generation and distribution. Passive autocatalytic recombiners are the point of interest and mainly PAR units’ location. A severe accident is taken into account regarding the sources of hydrogen generation. The analysis of the severe accident progression is performed with MELCOR code. CFD tool Fluent (ANSYS) is applied to assess hydrogen and steam distribution in the atmosphere of the containment (confinement). The NPP unit of type WWER 440 (V230) is considered but as it is stressed this fact is irrelevant to phenomena and accident management targets.