IP Library Granted Patent US 10,457,583
Granted Patent B2
US 10,457,583 · App. 15/418,853 · Granted Oct 29, 2019

Method for relieving corrosive environment of boiling water reactor, nuclear power plant, and method for injecting noble metal which is carried out in nuclear power plant

Inventors: Kazushige Ishida (Tokyo, JP); Youichi Wada (Tokyo, JP); Masahiko Tachibana (Tokyo, JP); Nobuyuki Oota (Hitachi, JP); Ryosuke Shimizu (Hitachi, JP); Mayu Sasaki (Hitachi, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
C02F5/00C02F1/68G21C17/0225C02F2103/023C02F2303/08Y02E30/40
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Patent No.
US 10,457,583
App. No.
15/418,853
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for relieving a corrosive environment of a boiling water reactor, the method including a step of injecting hydrogen and a noble metal compound into water to be replenished into the reactor pressure vessel during a period of a generating operation of a boiling water nuclear power plant including the reactor pressure vessel. In the method, the hydrogen is injected into water to be supplied into the reactor pressure vessel, and the noble metal compound is injected into water in a line of the boiling water nuclear power plant in which a concentration of oxygen or hydrogen peroxide is stoichiometrically higher than the concentration of hydrogen at which hydrogen undergoes a chemical reaction to turn to water. Thus, when a noble metal is injected into a boiling water reactor, the noble metal can be restrained from adhering onto a pipe for an injection and other pipes, and thereby can increase the amount of the noble metal to be injected into a cooling water in a reactor pressure vessel.

Claims (9)

1. A method for relieving a corrosive environment of a boiling water reactor, the method comprising the steps of:

heating a sodium hexahydroxoplatinate solution to 190° C. or higher to produce a platinum oxide colloid, then

injecting hydrogen and the platinum oxide colloid into a water line to be supplied into the reactor pressure vessel during power generation of the boiling water nuclear, and

injecting oxygen or hydrogen peroxide in the water line, wherein

a concentration of the injected oxygen or hydrogen peroxide in the water line is stoichiometrically higher than the concentration of the injected hydrogen.

2. The method for relieving the corrosive environment of the boiling water reactor according to claim 1 ,

wherein the platinum oxide colloid is injected into the water line downstream of where the oxygen or hydrogen peroxide is injected.

3. The method for relieving the corrosive environment of the boiling water reactor according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sodium hexahydroxoplatinate solution is heated to 280° C. or higher to produce the platinum oxide colloid.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 5, 2026
From: HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY, LTD.
To: HITACHI GE VERNOVA NUCLEAR ENERGY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 074188/0822 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2017
From: ISHIDA, KAZUSHIGE; WADA, YOUICHI; TACHIBANA, MASAHIKO; OOTA, NOBUYUKI; SHIMIZU, RYOSUKE; SASAKI, MAYU
To: HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 041120/0270 →