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A boron removal demineralizer is used to decrease the boric acid concentration in the reactor coolant, when fuel is significantly burned up at the last stage of the reactor core life. In the latest design plants, no boron removal demineralizer is employed, since the boron dilution function can be provided by a boric acid recovery unit to process excess letdown water for diluting the reactor coolant

  1. Volume control tank

The volume control tank collects excess water that is not accommodated by the pressurizer during the plant power level increases, as seen in the plant start-up period. Hydrogen gas is maintained as cover gas in the volume control tank to control the concentration of dissolved hydrogen in the reactor coolant. The capacity of the volume control tank is determined considering such parameters as increasing tank internal pressure caused by letdown flow surges during plant load transients and make-up water control margins.

  1. Charging pumps

Three centrifugal charging pumps charge water into the reactor coolant system and inject seal water into the reactor coolant pump seals. Under the plant normal operating conditions, including the heat-up and cool-down operations, one charging pump satisfies the water flow requirements. Three pumps give the system the redundancy needed to continue the plant operation, satisfying the single failure criterion, even when one charging pump is out of service for repair. In recent plants, an additional charging pump with a small capacity is incorporated into the design of the charging system for plant cold shutdown.

  1. Excess letdown heat exchanger

An excess letdown heat exchanger is used to maintain seal water injection flows into the reactor coolant pump seals, when the normal letdown path is not available; a small amount of letdown flow from the reactor coolant system used to balance the injection flow through the reactor coolant pump seals, is cooled by the excess letdown heat exchanger.

  1. Residual Heat Removal System (rhrs)

  1. System composition and functions

  1. System composition

The RHRS, as shown in Figure 3.8.2, consists of two independent trains, with each train having a residual heat removal pump, a residual heat exchanger and associated piping and valves. The suctions of the residual heat removal pumps are connected to hot legs of the reactor coolant piping, with each suction line having two isolation valves in series. The discharges of the pumps are connected to the reactor coolant piping cold legs through the residual heat exchangers. A bypass line in parallel with each residual heat exchanger keeps the cooling-down rate of the reactor coolant under the maximum permitted value (55*U/h), by regulating the flow through the bypass line. A return line to the refueling water storage tank, normally isolated by a manually operated valve, is branched from the line downstream from each residual heat exchanger.

The residual heat removal pump suction lines are normally aligned to the refueling water storage tank, so that the pumps can inject the tank water into the reactor coolant system to cool the reactor core, upon the receipt of an ECCS actuation signal. In the plant start-up and shutdown phases, a circulation flow path, starting from the hot legs and returning to the cold legs of the reactor coolant loops, is established to remove the residual heat from the reactor. Since the reactor coolant system pressure is low (below 2.7 MPa [gage]) when the RHRS is put into operation, the system pressure is not sufficient to give the required letdown flow for cleaning-up the reactor coolant to the CVCS through the normal letdown path. Hence, a low pressure letdown flow path, beginning at the discharge of one of the residual heat removal exchangers and connected to the CVCS letdown line, sends the required flow for cleaning-up the reactor coolant

  1. Functions

The RHRS has three functions. The first is to remove the decay heat and the sensible heat from the reactor and to reduce the reactor coolant temperature to below 60*0 within 20 h after the

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Figure 3.8.2 Residual heat removal system flow diagram

Chapter 3 Systems of PWR Nuclear Power Plants