The OPHELIE mock-up input for the PRACLAY experiment (B 的OPHELIE模拟为praclay实验输入（b.pptVIP

The OPHELIE mock-up Input for the PRACLAY experiment Bernard Dereeper Exchange meeting nr 1 EIG PRACLAY - SCK?CEN - ONDRAF/NIRAS 18 January 2001 OPHELIE acronym of ... On surface Preliminary Heating simulation Experimenting Later Instruments and Equipments Surface mock-up to prepare the underground in situ test to test instruments and equipments to test the installation procedures of the backfill blocks and the instruments to tune the hydration and the heating phases to study the THM behaviour of the backfill material on real scale OPHELIE based on the concept of 1990 Dimensions length : 5 m ?int. = 2 m ?tube = 50.8 cm thickness : 2.5 cm Backfill blocks FoCa-sand-graphite (60-35-5 % of mass) Ps 4MPa 3 concentric rings Specific hydration process Thermal conditions 450 W/m 3 years steel liner 120°C Thermal conditions Isolation to obtain expected in situ temperatures Additional external heating more uniform temperature field compensation for external disturbances Instrumentation History Design Instrument selection 1995-1996 Specification of the backfill geometry Feb. 1996 Steel structure delivery Jan. 1997 Installation of backfill and instruments Apr. 1997 Closing of the mock-up Aug. 1997 Sensors connection, DAQ system,... Start of the experiment Dec. 1997 The mock-up test is running for 3 years Hydration : 02 Dec. 1997 status : ~96% saturation Heating : 02 June 1998 status : central tube ~140°C, steel liner ~120°C Cooling : July 2001 Dismantling : September 2001 Temperature increase Temperature profile Backfill material Successful installation Good thermal conductivity (graphite) Low swelling pressure ? Importance of chemical phenomena Porewater chemistry investigations (P. De Cannière et al.) Soluble salts concentration increasing from the periphery to the central tube (e.g. Cl-) advective transport of soluble salts by a water front migrating through an unsaturated material ad