A review on hydrogen generation, explosion, and mitigation during severe accidents in light water nuclear reactors

R Gharari, H Kazeminejad, NM Kojouri… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Progress of severe accident (SA) can be divided into core degradation and post core
meltdown. An important phenomena during severe accidents is the hydrogen generation …

Research progress of hydrogen behaviors in nuclear power plant containment under severe accident conditions

F Liu, Z Sun, M Ding, H Bian - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Severe accident in a water-cooled nuclear power plant may lead to the production and
release of hydrogen. If hydrogen forms flammable gas with air and steam in the containment …

Code validation and application of hydrogen mitigation by passive autocatalytic recombiner in small modular reactor

F Wang, M Zhao, Z Zou, J Deng, H Zhang… - … Engineering and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Hazard of hydrogen fast deflagration or explosion could highly lead to an over-
pressurization of nuclear reactor containment in case of severe accidents. In order to …

Hydrogen distribution and Passive Autocatalytic Recombiner (PAR) mitigation in a PWR-KWU containment type

E Lopez-Alonso, D Papini, G Jimenez - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The evaluation of Passive Autocatalytic Recombiners (PARs) performance has
been foreseen from the EU stress tests in the framework of a complementary and …

Investigations of hydrogen hazard mitigation by deliberate ignition in small modular reactor during severe accident using GASFLOW-MPI

F Wang, Z Zou, J Deng, H Qin, M Zhang - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrogen explosion, which represents a complex safety issue in the water-cooled Small
Modular Reactors (SMRs), could lead to over-pressurization and threaten the integrity of the …

Hydrogen hazard mitigation in small modular reactor during SBO severe accident using GASFLOW-MPI

Z Zou, F Wang, J Deng, H Zhang, M Zhang… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrogen combustion or explosion will lead to over-pressurization of the reactor
containment in case of severe accident caused by Station BlackOut (SBO) in an Small …

Determination of PAR configuration for PWR containment design: A hydrogen mitigation strategy

M Saghafi, F Yousefpour, K Karimi… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper deals with determination of the minimum number and identification of the best
configurations of passive autocatalytic recombiners (PAR) for the effective design of the …

A review on PAR operating characteristics and impact on hydrogen behaviors in containment of PWRs

T Man, Y Feng, X Zhou, Z Guo, M Ding - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2025 - Elsevier
Passive autocatalytic recombiners (PARs), owing to its excellent hydrogen removal
capability and passive characteristic, have been widely utilized to prevent the potential …

CFD simulation of hydrogen mitigation by a passive autocatalytic recombiner

Y Halouane, A Dehbi - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
In the case of a nuclear severe accident, hydrogen produced by the metal-water reaction
and core-concrete interaction is released in the containment in which large amounts of …

Superhydrophobic Pt–Pd/Al2O3 catalyst coating for hydrogen mitigation system of nuclear power plant

W Yu, X Yu, ST Tu, P Tian - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Passive auto-catalytic recombiner (PAR) system is an important hydrogen mitigation method
which has been applied in most modern light water nuclear reactors. The two challenges for …