Abstract
During the DEMO pre-concept design phase, a review of existing and under development technologies suitable for the Coolant Purification System (CPS) of the Water-Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) Breeding Blanket (BB) was carried out and two tritium recovery strategies were individuated, named on-line and off-line. The on-line concept relies on the continuous by-pass and treatment of a certain primary coolant fraction into CPS whereas the off-line scheme foresees the discharge of the whole primary water inventory after one year of DEMO operation, that will be treated in an external facility inside the tritium plant. Among these, the on-line strategy has been recently recommended as the most suitable for lowering the tritium inventory within BB and Primary Heat Transfer System (PHTS). Furthermore, such solution does not need high decontamination factor since treated water is not discharged in the environment, but it is redirected again into PHTS. In such condition, Water Distillation (WD) could be a promising technology with intrinsic simplicity and safety. The present work deals with the feasibility assessment of WD for DEMO WCLL BB CPS, investigating its capability to meet water CPS duty. A parametric study has been preliminary carried out, analysing the effect of selected parameters (i.e., tritium concentration at CPS inlet, tritium concentration in the enriched stream, efficiency of anti-permeation barriers, and operative conditions) on the WD sizing and operation. Then, a preliminary reference design has been individuated and verified with a dynamic model developed in MATLAB environment. Finally, the process flow diagram of the system has been derived and a preliminary sizing of auxiliary components is provided.
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