About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Materials and Chemistry for Molten Salt Systems
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Presentation Title |
Research Progress in the Development of a Molten-salt Forced-circulation Loop |
Author(s) |
Guiqiu Tony Zheng, Guanyu Su, Nesrin Cetiner, David Carpenter |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Guiqiu Tony Zheng |
Abstract Scope |
It is critically important to develop molten-salt forced-circulation loop facilities with advanced technologies for the investigation of materials corrosion, components performance, tritium and fission products transport, heat transfer and so on. A team at the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is building molten salt loop systems that can pump high-temperature fluoride salts at various velocities in circulating loops. We start with inert gas-filled loop for testing key components and control system at high temperatures, and then fluoride salt-filled loops with and without neutron irradiation. One of the primary targets is to irradiate the test section of FLiBe salt-filled loop using a neutron beam source at MIT Nuclear Reactor to study the dynamic behavior of tritium and activation products in flowing salt. We will present our progress on the molten salt loop design and development of other associated facilities at our laboratory along with preliminary results. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, Energy Conversion and Storage, High-Temperature Materials |