Document Type
Annual Report
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Publisher Location
Las Vegas (Nev.)
First page number:
46
Last page number:
47
Abstract
The goal of the proposed research project is to provide basic understanding of the protective oxide layer behaviors and to develop oxide layer growth models of steels in non-isothermal lead-alloys (lead or lead-bismuth eutectic) coolant systems. Precise studies and simulations of all hydrodynamics with thermal conditions encountered in practical coolant loop systems by use of different flowing conditions in the laboratory are difficult and expensive, if not impossible. Therefore it is important and necessary to develop theoretical models to predict the protective oxide layer behaviors at the design stage of a practical lead-alloy coolant system, to properly interpret and apply experimental results from test loops, and to provide guidance for optimization in lead-alloy nuclear coolant systems. The research project, therefore, is aimed at understanding protective oxide layer growth and the optimal oxygen concentration level before lead-alloy nuclear coolants are ready for programmatic implementations and industrial applications.
Keywords
Corrosion and anti-corrosives; Eutectic alloys; Lead-bismuth alloys; Metals — Oxidation; Nuclear reactors — Materials — Testing; Oxide coating; Steel — Corrosion
Controlled Subject
Corrosion and anti-corrosives--Testing; Eutectic alloys; Nuclear reactors--Materials--Testing
Disciplines
Materials Science and Engineering | Metallurgy | Nuclear Engineering | Oil, Gas, and Energy
File Format
File Size
279 KB
Language
English
Rights
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Repository Citation
Chen, Y.,
Zhang, J.,
Li, J.
(2007).
Theoretical Modeling of Protective Oxide Layer Growth in Non-isothermal Lead Alloy Coolant Systems.
46-47.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/hrc_trp_sciences_materials/143