Abstract
Zeolite Molecular Sieves (ZMSs) are commonly adopted in tritium handling facilities for impurity removal from gaseous streams, particularly for tritiated water trapping. Several activities have been conducted to characterize the adsorption and desorption behaviour of the sieving materials. Instead, less attention has been put on the analysis of the integral process comprising the adsorption of the tritiated humidity, the regeneration of the molecular sieve and the recovery of the desorbed water. Focusing on the application for the EU-DEMO helium Coolant Purification System (CPS), this work presents a process simulator relying on a MATLAB dynamic model of the ZMS bed and on a RELAP5/MOD3.3 model for the regeneration loop. The dynamic model can simulate both the adsorption and regeneration modes of the ZMS by providing the temperature and the adsorbate concentration profile along the column, while the thermal-hydraulic model is used to assess the conditions of the regeneration loop. By coupling the outcomes of the two models it is possible to establish the effective regeneration efficiency of the process and the amount of the tritiated water recovered. For the case of helium CPS, the analysis demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed operative scheme and the capabilities of the regeneration procedure to ensure a 74.4 % regeneration efficiency of the ZMS bed.
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