2017 Annual Meeting

Session: Applications of Chemical Engineering to Nuclear Materials

Application of chemical engineering to nuclear applications with particular focus on high temperature applications with molten salts including electrorefining systems and molten salt reactors.

Chair

Michael Simpson, University of Utah

Presentations

08:00 AM

(259a) Continuous Monitoring of Ni Corrosion in Eutectic LiCl-KCl-UCl3 Using High Temperature Voltammetry
David Horvath, Michael Simpson

08:22 AM

(259b) A Review of IR Spectroscopic Studies of Molten Fluoride Salts
Will B. Derdeyn, Raluca Scarlat

08:44 AM

(259c) Effect of LiOH Contamination on the Electrolytic Reduction of Spent Oxide Fuel in Molten LiCl-Li2O
Mario Alberto Gonzalez, Michael Simpson

09:06 AM

(259d) Effect of Rotation on Li2O Entrainment in a Uranium Oxide Reduction Process
Adam Burak, Michael Simpson

09:28 AM

(259e) Thermal Conductivity of Tungsten: Effects of Plasma-Related Structural Defects from Molecular-Dynamics Simulation
Lin Hu, Brian D. Wirth, Dimitrios Maroudas

09:50 AM

(259h) The Heat and Mass Transport Questions in Molten Fluoride Salts that are Relevant to Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Raluca Scarlat
(259f) Visualization of Bubble Dynamics in a Natural Circulation Boiling Loop
Swapan Paruya, Jithender Naik L, Jyoti Bhati

10:12 AM

(259g) Effect of Process Parameters on Chlorination of Metallic Rare Earth/Actinide Mixtures
Parker Okabe, Devin S. Rappleye, Matthew Newton, Michael Simpson