| 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 |
Insights into Prediction of Thermodynamic Properties for Chloride Salts for Generation IV MSRs |
| Author(s) |
Juliano Schorne Pinto, Jacob A. Yingling, Matthew Christian, Amir M. Mofrad, Mahmut A. A. Aslani, Theodore M. Besmann |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Juliano Schorne Pinto |
| Abstract Scope |
A crucial issue for the development of molten salt reactors (MSRs) is the lack of thermodynamic information for its main constituents, i.e., fuel and/or coolant. For example, enthalpies of liquid-liquid mixing for uranium and plutonium trichloride with alkali metal chloride systems are limited. However, they are important to reliably model thermodynamic properties required from equilibrium calculations of complex systems present in MSRs. The work reported here supports the development of thermodynamic functions through empirical correlations coupled with numerical modeling to predict the enthalpy of mixing for unexplored AkCl-UCl3 and AkCl-PuCl3 (Ak=alkali element) systems. The results contribute to the development of the Molten Salt Thermal Properties Database-Thermochemical (MSTDB-TC), an open-source compendium for MSR applications. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |