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Measurement of the Gas Velocity in a Water-Air Mixture in CROCUS Using Neutron Noise Techniques

Hursin, Mathieu
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Pakari, Oskari  
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Perret, Gregory
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February 14, 2020
Nuclear Technology

The possibility of measuring the gas-phase velocity in a two-phase mixture through the use of neutron noise techniques is demonstrated in the zero-power reactor CROCUS of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. It is the first step toward the experimental validation of an existing theoretical model whose objective is the reconstruction of the void profile in a channel. The use of zero-power research reactors is advantageous due to their clean environment in terms of signal fluctuations. To this end, a channel was installed in the reflector of CROCUS. A two-component mixture is generated inside the channel through the injection of compressed air. The signal fluctuations of neutron detectors located at various axial locations next to the channel are processed to determine the transit time of the gas phase between detectors. Four methods are presented based on the detector signal time series either in the time domain (time correlations between signals) or in the frequency domain (phase of the cross-power spectral density. All four methods returned consistent transit times and similar experimental uncertainty. The largest possible gas injection rates as well as the highest possible neutron flux level improve the visibility of the traveling perturbation and reduce the experimental uncertainty on the transit time for a given acquisition time.

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research article
DOI
10.1080/00295450.2019.1701906
Web of Science ID

WOS:000515378300001

Author(s)
Hursin, Mathieu
Pakari, Oskari  
Perret, Gregory
Frajtag, Pavel  
Lamirand, Vincent  
Pazsit, Imre
Dykin, Victor
Por, Gabor
Nylen, Henrik
Pautz, Andreas  
Date Issued

2020-02-14

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Published in
Nuclear Technology
Volume

206

Issue

10

Start page

1566

End page

1583

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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neutron noise measurement

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two-phase flow

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gas velocity measurement

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boiling-water

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flow

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bwr

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REVIEWED

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