| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES) 2021
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| Symposium
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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES) 2021
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| Presentation Title |
Instrumentation in Molten Salt Systems: Commercial Availability, Custom Solutions, and Gaps |
| Author(s) |
Adam J. Burak, Xiaodong Sun, Ethan Hamilton, Michael Simpson, Dimitris Killinger, Supathorn Phongikaroon |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Adam J. Burak |
| Abstract Scope |
Few commercial instruments can be applied to molten salt work. Others require fabrication/construction in-house and some do not exist or are in their infancy. Monitoring molten salt parameters such as temperature, composition, and redox potential is essential to infer the property evolution of materials exposed to molten salts. Commercialized technology is sparse for measuring parameters in molten salts. To measure parameters, more difficult than temperature, there is a dearth of technologies commonly requiring instruments to be built in-house. Reliable, optimized instruments, with quantified uncertainty, facilitate advanced and comparable studies. The use of uniform instrumentation reduces time spent designing and characterizing instrumentation, which can be better spent designing experiments, and ease comparison between different studies in the literature. This work discusses commercially available instruments for molten salts, prevalent in-house solutions, and where development of new instrumentation is needed. In addition, recent advances in instrumentation development for the VTR will be discussed. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |