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Uranium for hydrogen isotope removal from inert gas streams
W.T. Shmayda,Nazir P. Kherani +1 more
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In this paper, the removal of hydrogen from a helium stream using a bed which contains 1.77 moles of powdered depleted uranium has been studied, where the volumetric flow rate of the helium carrier ranged between 2.5 to 60 L/min.About:
This article is published in Fusion Engineering and Design.The article was published on 1989-01-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hydrogen & Uranium.read more
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Comparative study of full-scale thin double-layered annulus beds loaded with ZrCo, Zr0.8Hf0.2Co and Zr0.8Ti0.2Co for recovery and delivery of hydrogen isotopes
Huaqin Kou,Ge Sang,Wenhua Luo,Zhiyong Huang,Daqiao Meng,Guanghui Zhang,Jun Deng,Zhipeng Luo,He Weibo,Changwen Hu +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, a full-scale thin double-layered annulus beds loaded with ZrCo, Zr 0.8 Hf 0.2 Co and Zr0.8 Ti 0.2 Co were fabricated.
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Experimental study on full-scale ZrCo and depleted uranium beds applied for fast recovery and delivery of hydrogen isotopes
Huaqin Kou,Zhiyong Huang,Wenhua Luo,Ge Sang,Daqiao Meng,Deli Luo,Guanghui Zhang,Hao Chen,Ying Zhou,Changwen Hu +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a thin double-layered annulus bed configuration was adopted and full-scale beds loaded with ZrCo and depleted uranium (DU) for fast recovery and delivery of hydrogen isotopes were fabricated.
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Effects of temperature and hydrogen pressure on the activation behavior of ZrCo
Huaqin Kou,Huaqin Kou,Wenhua Luo,Zhiyong Huang,Ge Sang,Changwen Hu,Changan Chen,Guanghui Zhang,Deli Luo,Meng Liu,Shaotao Zheng +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of temperature and hydrogen pressure on the activation behavior of ZrCo were systematically investigated, and it was found that initial evacuation at temperature higher than 300°C was clearly beneficial to the subsequent hydrogenation process.
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Hydriding and dehydriding characteristics of small-scale DU and ZrCo beds
Dongyou Chung,Jungmin Lee,Daeseo Koo,Hongsuk Chung,Ki Hwan Kim,Hyun-Goo Kang,Min Ho Chang,Patrick Camp,Ki Jung Jung,Seungyon Cho,Sei-Hun Yun,Chang Shuk Kim,Hiroshi Yoshida,Seungwoo Paek,Han-Soo Lee +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two identical small-scale getter beds for a comparison of ZrCo with DU on the hydriding/dehydriding properties were designed and fabricated.
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Effect of Mn substitution for Co on the structural, kinetic, and thermodynamic characteristics of ZrCo1−xMnx (x=0–0.1) alloys for tritium storage
Chengcai Weng,Xuezhang Xiao,Xu Huang,Fulei Jiang,Zhendong Yao,Shouquan Li,Hongwei Ge,Lixin Chen +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of Mn substitution for Co on the alloy microstructure, initial activation behavior, hydrogen storage kinetics and thermodynamics was investigated, and it was observed that the initial activation time (uptake to 95% of saturated hydrogen capacity) decreases from 63.73h to 0.24h as the Mn content increases from x = 0 to x ≤ 0.1.
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Feasibility of Chemical Getter Beds in Scavenging Tritium from Inert Gases
TL;DR: In this article, chemical getters can be used to scavenge tritium from inert gases, which has a high reactivity and is relatively inexpensive, and it is a good...
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Recovery of hydrogen isotopes using a uranium bed
TL;DR: In this paper, a breakthrough experiment was used to investigate the recovery of hydrogen isotopes from contaminated inert gases by using a reactive uranium powder bed column under various conditions, and the breakthrough curve can be described by Meienschein's gas phase mass-transfer-limited model.
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Development of a gas chromatographic system for hydrogen isotope separation
TL;DR: In this article, two GC techniques were optimized or developed in the pilot system, namely, the heart-cutting technique for removing the hydrogen-containing species from a fusion fuel and the temperature programming technique for separating all six hydrogen isotope species.
Collection of deuterium on a uranium getter during dynamic flow conditions
C.L. Folkers,M.F. Singleton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a special segmented trap was designed to prevent channeling and to promote maximum reaction rates when gas flows through it, and the gas mixtures were sampled at the trap inlet and outlet and were analyzed by a mass spectrometer.