Compatibility of SiC with ODS FeCrAl in flowing Pb-Li at 600°–700 °C

B. A. Pint; J. Jun; M. Romedenne

doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112389

Compatibility of SiC with ODS FeCrAl in flowing Pb-Li at 600°–700 °C

B. A. Pint, J. Jun, M. Romedenne

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Abstract

To establish the maximum operating temperature for the dual coolant lead lithium (DCLL) blanket concept, thermal convection loop (TCL) experiments were conducted for 1000 h with a peak temperature of 700 °C to determine compatibility with commercial eutectic Pb∼17at.%Li. Two TCLs were fabricated from alloy APMT (FeCrAlMo) and the baseline TCL experiment contained only APMT specimens. The second TCL experiment exposed more fusion relevant CVD SiC and ODS Fe-10Cr-6Al specimens in the hot and cold legs. In the second experiment, the mass losses were much larger for the ODS FeCrAl specimens and most of the CVD SiC specimens experienced a mass gain as SiC reacted to form an Fe- and Cr-rich carbide reaction product. Dissolved Fe and Cr reacted with the SiC and removing Fe and Cr from the liquid appeared to increase ODS FeCrAl dissolution. Such a dissimilar material interaction appears consistent with thermodynamic calculations. Significant attack at the top of the hot leg in both experiments suggests that the Pb-Li compatibility of FeCrAl alloys is inadequate at 700 °C in a flowing environment and the maximum PbLi temperature is < 675 °C.

Original language	English
Article number	112389
Journal	Fusion Engineering and Design
Volume	166
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112389
State	Published - May 2021

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). The experimental work was conducted by A. Willoughby, M. Stephens, B. Johnston, V. Cox, T. Lowe and E. Cakmak. K. Kane, P. Mouche, S. Dryepondt and R. Pillai provided valuable comments on the results and manuscript. This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences .

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U.S. Department of Energy
Fusion Energy Sciences

Keywords

DCLL blanket
ODS FeCrAl
PbLi compatibility
SiC

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