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Study on characterization of ceramic materials for nuclear engineering

Research Project

Project/Area Number 61470161
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Nuclear engineering
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

TAKAHASHI Yoichi  Professor, University of Tokyo, 工学部, 教授 (90010735)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAMBA Takashi  Research associate, University of Tokyo, 工学部, 助手 (20133100)
YONEOKA Toshiaki  Research associate, University of Tokyo, 工学部, 助手 (40013221)
TERAI Takayuki  Associate professor, University of Tokyo, 工学部, 助教授 (90175472)
TANAKA Satoru  Associate professor, University of Tokyo, 工学部, 助教授 (10114547)
Project Period (FY) 1986 – 1987
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1987)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥3,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000)
KeywordsCeramics / Porosity / Tritium breeding / Asdorption / Lithium compounds / Equilibrium pressure / Permeatiion / トリチウムインベントリー / 多孔質 / 焼結体 / 気体透過率 / 相互拡散係数 / フッ化リチウム / 核融合炉ブランケット / トリチウム増殖材
Research Abstract

Ceramic materials are very important in nuclear engineering. They have such complicated textures that gas transport process through them is not easy to understand. The aim of this study was to measure the structure and the characterisitics of adsorption and the gas permeation in order to clarify the relationship among them on fusion reacter blanket materials.
This study was performed in the following themes:
1. Gas permeability and pore structure of sintered lithium fluoride(LiF).
As a system having weak interaction between permeating gas and sintered matrix, a pair of LiF and Ar-He gas mixture was chosen, and the gas permeability and the diffusity through LiF samples prepared in various sintering condition. It was shown that they can be expressed by a simple function of porosity in the matrix determined by a mercury porosimeter.
2. Adsorption of H_2O on Li_2O and equilibrium vapor pressure of H_2O in the system of Li_2O-LiOH mixture.
Adsorption amount of H_2O on lithium oxide (Li_2O) samples with various sizes of apparent particle radius as well as its enthalpy change was measured to investigate the chemical interaction of permeating gas and sintered matrix. In addition, equilibrium vapor pressure of H_2O in the system of Li_2O-LiOH mixture was obtained in high accuracy in the wide temperature range of 350-620゜c.
3. Estimation of tritium inventory in fusion reactor blanket.
Computational code to calculate tritium transport in fusion reactor blanket was constructed in order to estimate the tritium inventory of RFP- type fusion reactor. In this code, some data obtained in this study swre utilized, and its availability and importance were recognized.
The final report on this project has been published.

Report

(2 results)
  • 1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • 1986 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All Other

All Publications (5 results)

  • [Publications] Takayuki Terai et al.: Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Haruki Mdarame et al.: Fusion Engineering and Design.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takayuki Terai et al.: "A conceptual design of RFP fusion power reactor - REPUTER-I" Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Haruki Madarame et al.: "Tritium mugration resistance in solid blanket of fusion reactor" Fusion Engineering and Design.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1987 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takayuki TERAI et al.: Journal of Nuclean Science and Technology.

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1987-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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