Cooling duct assembly for control element drive mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9583226-B2
Application number	US-201414322811-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2014
Priority date	Jul 2, 2013
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

The cooling duct assembly for a control element drive mechanism (CEDM) includes a skirt that is combined on a circumference of a reactor head and has first air channels in an inner side thereof; a lower duct that is combined with an upper side of the skirt, has second air channels that are connected to the first air channels, and is disposed to surround a circumference of the CEDM; and an upper duct, an edge of which is combined with the cooling air handling device, and other edge of which is detachably combined with the lower duct, wherein air that cools the CEDM is discharged to the outside after sequentially passing the first air channels, the second air channels, the upper duct, and the cooling air handling device, and the upper duct separated from the lower duct is lifted together with the cooling air handling device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cooling duct assembly for a control element drive mechanism that is installed on an upper assembly of a nuclear reactor that comprises a control element drive mechanism that is disposed above a reactor head; a cable tray disposed above the control element drive mechanism, and a cooling air handling device that is disposed above the cable tray, the cooling duct assembly comprising:
a cylindrical skirt that is combined on a circumference of the reactor head and has first air channels in an inner side thereof;
a lower duct that is combined with an upper side of the skirt, has second air channels connected to the first air channels, is disposed to surround a circumference of the control element drive mechanism, and has flow spaces for allowing air around the reactor head to flow towards the control element drive mechanism,
an upper duct, one edge of which is combined with the cooling air handling device, and another edge of which is detachably combined with the lower duct; and
a lifting rig that moves the upper duct up and down,
wherein the lifting rig comprises a guide rail that extends in upper and lower directions of the upper duct and is combined with an outer surface of the upper duct, a guiding block that supports the guide rail by being attached to the cable tray or the cooling air handling device , a wire having an edge fixed on a lower edge of the upper duct, a winch that lifts and descends the upper duct by winding or unwinding the wire, and a pulley that is disposed between the edge of the wire and the winch to guide the wire,
wherein air that cools the control element drive mechanism is discharged to the outside after sequentially passing through the first air channels of the skirt, the second air channels of the lower duct, the upper duct, and the cooling air handling device, and
the upper duct separated from the lower duct is lifted together with the cooling air handling device, and the edge of the upper duct is detachably combined with the cooling air handling device.

2. The cooling duct assembly of claim 1 , wherein the winch comprises:
a reducer that controls a rotation speed of a driving axis;
a motor that rotates the driving axis; and
a brake that stops the motor from rotating.

3. The cooling duct assembly of claim l, wherein the cable tray or the cooling air handling device further comprises a fixing plate that is combined with the guiding blocks, and the pulley is rotatably combined with supporting bracket that is combined with the fixing plate.

4. The cooling duct assembly of claim 1 , wherein the lower duct comprises a plurality of sub-lower ducts having flow spaces for inducing air around the reactor head towards the control element drive mechanism, wherein the sub-lower ducts are separated from each other.

5. The cooling duct assembly of claim 4 , wherein the sub-lower ducts comprise a first sub-lower duct having a flow space for inducing the air around the reactor head towards the control element drive mechanism and a second sub-lower duct having flow spaces for inducing the air around the reactor head towards the control element drive mechanism.

Assignees

• Kepco Eng & Constr Co Inc

Inventors

• Lee Myoung Goo
• Choi Woo Cheol
• Cho Yeon Ho

Classifications

• G21C19/19 Primary

  Reactor parts specifically adapted to facilitate handling, e.g. to facilitate charging or discharging of fuel elements · CPC title

• G21C7/10

  Construction of control elements · CPC title

• Y02E30/39

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G21C9/00 Primary

  Emergency protection arrangements structurally associated with the reactor {, e.g. safety valves provided with pressure equalisation devices}(emergency cooling arrangements G21C15/18) · CPC title

• Y02E30/30

  Nuclear fission reactors · CPC title