Fusion device charging valve box remote leakage monitoring and positioning system
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the operating technology of a thermonuclear fusion reactor, and particularly relates to a gas supply pipeline leakage monitoring and positioning system.
Background
In future thermonuclear fusion reactors, hydrogen, deuterium and tritium are used as fuels, and methods such as edge gas injection and shot injection are used for refueling. Fuels such as hydrogen, deuterium, tritium and the like are transported to the vicinity of the device from a gas storage and transportation system through a gas supply pipeline, and injected into the vacuum chamber after species selection, flow control or pellet preparation. Where tritium is radioactive, its leakage can be a safety hazard to personnel, so leakage monitoring of the gas supply lines is required during operation of the fusion plant.
According to the requirement of tritium safety protection, a secondary containing layer needs to be designed besides a primary containing pipeline directly contacting tritium of the gas supply system, so that tritium is prevented from being directly leaked into the environment. The space between the primary containment duct and the secondary containment layer, referred to as the plenum space, is typically filled with an inert gas (e.g., nitrogen) at a pressure below ambient. This is a typical feature of tritium-related operation devices. For the gas supply pipeline, the secondary containing layer can be designed into a pipeline with a larger diameter to surround a tritium primary containing pipe or a plurality of fuel gas primary containing pipelines together to form a composite pipeline; and the air supply control device near the device adopts a valve box as a secondary containing layer. For future fusion devices, multiple charging valve boxes are typically provided to enable multi-point injection or as backup valve boxes. The composite pipeline for supplying gas is designed into a manifold structure and supplies gas for a plurality of valve boxes simultaneously.
For the existing fusion device involving tritium, the detection of tritium leakage of a gas supply pipeline mainly comprises the step of periodically sending gas in an interlayer space into an analysis chamber of a tritium factory for tritium concentration analysis, and the time effect of leakage is obviously delayed. And if leakage is found, the position of a leakage injection point cannot be positioned, and the positions of the leakage points are only checked one by one through field leakage detection. For future fusion devices, the scale is larger, the design of a gas supply system and a tritium plant is more complex, and it is no longer feasible to directly identify the leakage of the gas supply system by means of an analysis system of the tritium plant. Because the control device of the gas supply pipeline is mainly positioned in the valve box, the leakage probability of various live connections is far greater than the probability of pipeline welding, the possibility that the leakage of the gas supply system occurs in the valve box can be presumed to be the greatest, and the leakage monitoring and positioning must be carried out on the charging valve box in the experimental operation process. However, the loading valve box is located near the device, high-energy neutrons and strong ionization radiation continuously exist in the surrounding environment, and personnel are strictly prohibited to enter and exit during the experiment operation. Even after shutdown, personnel are required to gain access to the environment for maintenance after the radiation dose in the environment has dropped to an acceptable threshold, meaning that for future fusion devices operating in steady state, it will take a long time to perform leak detection in the field.
The charging system is an essential system for the operation of a fusion device, how to realize the rapid leakage monitoring, positioning and isolation of a charging valve box in a remote mode so as to reduce unnecessary device shutdown events (abandoning the leakage valve box and ensuring the normal operation of a gas supply system) as far as possible, and is a problem which must be solved by the future fusion reactor charging system.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a fusion device charging valve box remote leakage monitoring and positioning system which can remotely monitor and quickly position a leakage valve box and isolate the valve box.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
a fusion device charging valve box remote leakage monitoring and positioning system comprises a gas supply pipeline and an external containing pipe, wherein a nitrogen outlet pipeline and a plurality of manifolds are arranged on the containing pipe, a charging valve box is arranged at the end part of each manifold, and a processing inlet on the side wall of the lower end of each charging valve box is used as a nitrogen filling port; the gas supply pipeline is provided with one more gas supply branch pipe than the manifolds, one gas supply branch pipe is positioned in the nitrogen outlet pipeline, and the other gas supply branch pipes are respectively positioned in the corresponding manifolds and extend into the corresponding charging valve boxes; the manifold is provided with a bypass pipeline which is communicated with a nitrogen outlet of the charging valve box and the inside of the manifold.
The air supply branch pipes in the manifold are a plurality of parallel branches which are branched from the air supply pipeline and are respectively N air supply pipelines and one emptying pipeline.
The N air supply pipelines are provided with pneumatic isolation valves D and C, the emptying pipeline is provided with a pneumatic isolation valve E, and the pipeline where all the parallel branches are collected is provided with a pressure sensor B.
And the bypass pipeline is provided with a pneumatic isolation valve B for opening or closing the bypass pipeline.
And a pneumatic isolating valve A is arranged on the pipeline where the nitrogen injection port is located and used for opening or closing the injection pipeline where the nitrogen injection port is located.
And a pressure sensor A is arranged on the gas supply branch pipe of the nitrogen outlet pipeline.
When the measured value of the pressure sensor A exceeds 0.95bar, all the pneumatic isolation valves D are closed, the pneumatic isolation valves C and the pneumatic isolation valves E are opened until the measured value of the pressure sensor B8 drops below 0.01bar, the pneumatic isolation valves E are closed, and if the signal of one pressure sensor B8 rises to 0.1bar and continues rising, the corresponding charging valve box is judged to have leakage.
And a gas monitor is arranged on the gas supply branch pipe of the nitrogen outlet pipeline.
When the volume concentration of hydrogen and deuterium detected by a gas monitor exceeds 1 percent VOL or the concentration of radioactivity of tritium detected exceeds 1E8Bq/m3And closing all the pneumatic isolation valves D, opening the pneumatic isolation valves C and E until the measured value of the pressure sensor B8 drops below 0.01bar, closing the pneumatic isolation valves E, and judging that the corresponding charging valve box has leakage if the signal of a certain pressure sensor B rises to 0.1bar and continues rising.
The measurement range of the pressure sensor B is 0-1 bar, and the measurement range of the pressure sensor A is 0-2 bar.
The emptying pipeline is in a vacuum state, and the vacuum degree is 1 Pa-100 Pa.
The working pressure range of the gas supply pipeline is 0.85 bar-0.92 bar.
The invention has the following remarkable effects:
1. the charging valve box is communicated with the containing pipe through a bypass, the valve box is provided with a nitrogen injection port, a nitrogen outlet and a gas monitor are arranged near the end of the containing pipe, and nitrogen continuously flows to realize the real-time monitoring of gas components.
2. The pneumatic isolation valve is arranged after the gas supply pipeline enters the valve box, and the valve box can be communicated or separated from the gas supply pipeline, so that each valve box can be isolated from the whole gas supply system for leakage positioning, and the system can continue to operate after the leakage valve box is separated;
3. the gas supply pipeline is communicated or separated with the air exhaust pipeline by a pneumatic isolating valve in the valve box, so that the air exhaust and replacement of the gas supply pipeline can be realized.
4. The pressure sensor is arranged on the gas supply pipeline, and the pressure sensor is arranged on the connecting section of the gas supply pipeline and the emptying pipeline in the valve box.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a fusion device charging valve box remote leakage monitoring and positioning system;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the position structure of a charging valve box;
in the figure: 1. a charging valve box; 2. a nitrogen gas injection port; 3. a bypass pipeline, 4. a containing pipe, and 5. an air supply pipeline; 6. gas monitor, 7, pressure sensor A; 8. a pressure sensor B; 9. a pneumatic isolation valve A; 10. a pneumatic isolation valve B; 11. a pneumatic isolation valve C; 12. a pneumatic isolation valve D; 13. a pneumatic isolation valve E; 14. an air supply duct; 15. and (6) emptying the pipeline.
Detailed Description
The invention is further illustrated by the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.
As shown in fig. 1, fuel gas is supplied from a gas supply line 5 into a plurality of charging valve boxes 1.
The gas supply pipeline 5 is arranged in the containing pipe 4, the containing pipe 4 is provided with a nitrogen outlet pipeline and a plurality of manifolds, the end part of each manifold is provided with a charging valve box 1, and the side wall of the lower end of each charging valve box 1 is provided with a processing inlet as a nitrogen filling port 2.
Each branch gas supply pipe of the gas supply pipeline 5 extends into the charging valve box 1 in a manifold, and meanwhile, a bypass pipeline 3 is arranged on each manifold and communicated with a nitrogen outlet of the charging valve box 1 and the inside of the manifold;
and a pressure sensor A7 is arranged on the gas supply branch pipe of the gas supply pipeline 5 in the nitrogen outlet pipeline, and the measurement range of the pressure sensor A7 is 0-2 bar.
The working pressure of the air supply pipeline 5 is 0.9bar under the normal state, and the fluctuation range is 0.85 bar-0.92 bar. The alarm threshold is set at 0.95bar and if the pressure sensor a7 measures a value above this threshold, this indicates that the supply duct 5 is leaking.
The pressure sensor A7 and the two gas monitors 6 are positioned in the nitrogen outlet pipeline, the two gas monitors 6 are respectively a hydrogen monitor, a deuterium monitor and a tritium monitor and are respectively used for detecting the volume concentration of hydrogen and deuterium and the radioactive activity concentration of tritium, the alarm threshold of the hydrogen monitor and the deuterium monitor is set to be 1 percent VOL, and the alarm threshold of the tritium monitor is set to be 1E8Bq/m3。
If either of the two gas monitors 6 exceeds the corresponding alarm threshold, a leak in the gas supply line 5 is indicated.
As shown in fig. 2, a pneumatic isolation valve B10 is installed on each bypass pipe 3 for opening or closing the bypass pipe. A pneumatic isolation valve a9 is installed on the line on which the nitrogen gas injection port 2 is located, for opening or closing the injection line on which it is located.
The gas supply pipeline 5 is divided into three parallel branches corresponding to each charging valve box 1, namely two gas supply pipelines 14 and one emptying pipeline 15; two of the air supply pipelines 14 are respectively provided with a pneumatic isolation valve D12 and a pneumatic isolation valve C11, the emptying pipeline 15 is provided with a pneumatic isolation valve E13, and a pipeline at the convergence of the three parallel branches is provided with a pressure sensor B8.
The gas supply pipeline 5 enters the valve box from the top of the charging valve box 1, the bypass pipeline 3 is connected to a manifold of the containing pipe 4 from the top of the charging valve box 1, and the nitrogen injection port 2 is positioned near the bottom of the charging valve box 1. Considering that the leaked gas hydrogen is lighter than nitrogen and is easy to gather at the top of the valve box, the nitrogen is injected into the interlayer space of the charging valve box 1 from the nitrogen injection port 2 from bottom to top, then enters the interlayer space between the containing pipe 4 and the gas supply pipeline 5 from the bypass pipeline 3, and flows to the outlet after flowing through the gas monitor 6 along the containing pipe 4.
In the embodiment, according to detonation safety and radioactivity safety, the alarm threshold of the hydrogen and deuterium monitor is set to be 1% VOL, and the measurement range is 0-4% VOL; the alarm threshold of the tritium monitor is set to 1E8Bq/m3Measurement Range 1E4Bq/m3~1E10Bq/m3. Under the normal state, the display values of the hydrogen, deuterium and tritium monitors are all 0, and if the measured value exceeds a set threshold value, the leakage event which possibly endangers the safety of the corresponding gas supply pipeline occurs.
An air supply pipeline 14 and an emptying pipeline 15 are arranged on the air supply pipeline 5, wherein the number of the air supply pipelines 14 can be 1 or more, and 2 air supply pipelines are taken as an example in the figure. The plurality of gas supply lines 14 are joined in a valve box and then connected to an injection line for supplying gas to the vacuum chamber. The other branch is connected to an emptying pipeline 15, and the emptying pipeline 15 is in a vacuum state under a normal condition, and the vacuum degree is 1 Pa-100 Pa.
The pneumatic isolation valve C11 is used to select the feed gas to open and close, typically in a closed state, according to experimental requirements. Pneumatic isolation valve D12 is for leak positioning, normally in a normally open position. Another pressure sensor B8 is located at the merging section of the supply duct, normally at a pressure in the range 0.3bar to 0.4 bar.
When the measured value of either one of the two gas monitors 6 or the pressure sensor a7 exceeds the corresponding alarm threshold, all the pneumatic isolation valves D12 in the charging valve box 1 are remotely closed at once, and then the pneumatic isolation valve C11 and the pneumatic isolation valve E13 are opened. When the measurement from the pressure sensor B8 falls below 0.01bar, the pneumatic isolation valve E13 is closed and the signal from the corresponding pressure sensor B8 in each charging valve box 1 is continuously monitored in real time. If the signal of a certain pressure sensor B8 rises to 0.1bar (positioning alarm value) and continues rising, it indicates that the corresponding charging valve box 1 has leakage, thereby realizing the positioning of the leakage valve box.