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Canadian ceramic breeder sphere-pac technology: capability and recent results
J.D. Sullivan,C.L. Brayman,R.A. Verrall,J.M. Miller,P. Gierszewski,Frank A. Londry,Alan J. Slavin +6 more
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Sphere-pac ceramic breeders have been under development in Canada for several years as discussed by the authors, with the future development of binary beds planned for use in engineering test reactors and subsequent fusion power reactors.About:
This article is published in Fusion Engineering and Design.The article was published on 1991-12-01. It has received 26 citations till now.read more
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A new model for the effective thermal conductivity of packed beds of solid spheroids : alumina in helium between 100 and 500°C
TL;DR: In this article, an analytical model is given for the thermal conductivity of a bed of solid spheroidal particles in static gas, when the conductivities of the solid is substantially greater than that of the gas.
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Testing of lithium titanate as an alternate blanket material
TL;DR: In this article, Li2TiO3 has been used as an alternate ceramic blanket material to Li2ZrO3 and tritium release was investigated in post-irradiation anneals.
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Theoretical model for the thermal conductivity of a packed bed of solid spheroids in the presence of a static gas, with no adjustable parameters except at low pressure and temperature
TL;DR: In this article, the thermal conductivity of packed pebble beds in a static gas was calculated with no adjustable parameters, provided the conductance of the solid is much greater than that of the gas and gas pressures are above about 4 kPa.
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Summary of experimental results for ceramic breeder materials
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the suitability of lithium-containing ceramics for tritium breeding materials for fusion reactor blankets, particularly because of their safety advantages and compatibility with structures and beryllium.
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Effective thermal conductivity of lithium ceramic pebble beds for fusion blankets: a review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and compared the available data, presented by various studies, of effective conductivity of lithium ceramic pebble beds in order to address the current status of these data.
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Mechanical Packing of Spherical Particles
TL;DR: An idealized experimental study of particle packing was made as mentioned in this paper, where spherical metal shot of several discrete, narrow size ranges was efficiently packed in glass containers by mechanical vibration, and the significance and utility of this work to the ceramic and other industries was discussed.
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The packing of particles
D. J. Cumberland,R. J. Crawford +1 more
TL;DR: The authors' interest in the subject was initially aroused by the question of whether there is an optimum particle size distribution which would maximise the packing density of particles -a question which has attracted the interest of scientists and engineers for centuries as discussed by the authors.
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The thermal conductivity of powder beds. a model, some measurements on UO2 vibro-compacted microspheres, and their correlation
R.O.A. Hall,D.G. Martin +1 more
TL;DR: An analytical model to describe the thermal conductivity of unsintered packed powders is developed in this paper, which is based on one due to Deissler and Eian, but extended to include low gas pressures, when the powder bed conductivity is a function of pressure, and also high temperatures, when radiation between adjacent particles becomes a significant heat transfer mechanism.
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Tritium Recovery from Lithium Zirconate Spheres
TL;DR: Tritium release from 1.5 mm diameter Li2ZrO3 spheres has been examined in post-irradiation annealing tests, to support the Canadian sphere-pac breeder-blanket concept.
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