Construction and initial operation of MHD PbLi facility at UCLA

S. Smolentsev; F. C. Li; N. Morley; Y. Ueki; M. Abdou; T. Sketchley

doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.03.018

Construction and initial operation of MHD PbLi facility at UCLA

S. Smolentsev, F. C. Li, N. Morley, Y. Ueki, M. Abdou, T. Sketchley

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A magnetohydrodynamic flow facility MaPLE (Magnetohydrodynamic PbLi Experiment) that utilizes molten eutectic alloy lead-lithium (PbLi) as working fluid has been constructed and tested at University of California, Los Angeles. The loop operation parameters are: maximum magnetic field 1.8 T, PbLi temperature up to 350°C, maximum PbLi flow rate with/without a magnetic field 15/50 l/min, maximum pressure head 0.15 MPa. The paper describes the loop itself and its major components, basic operation procedures, experience of handling PbLi, initial loop testing, flow diagnostics and current and near-future experiments. The obtained test results of the loop and its components have demonstrated that the new facility is fully functioning and ready for experimental studies of magnetohydrodynamic, heat and mass transfer phenomena in PbLi flows and also can be used in mock up testing in conditions relevant to fusion applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-326
Number of pages	10
Journal	Fusion Engineering and Design
Volume	88
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2013.03.018
State	Published - Jun 2013
Externally published	Yes

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We acknowledge support from the US Department of Energy under the Grant DE-FG02-86ER52123-A040 . We also appreciate technical contributions from our collaborators from Japan on Task 1–3 of the TITAN program: Tomoaki Kunugi, Takehiko Yokomine, Kazuhisa Yuki, Mitsuhiro Aoyagi, Shinji Ebara and Hidetoshi Hashizume. SS would like to thank Andrej Shishko and Sergej Ivanov from the Institute of Physics, Latvia, and Juergen Konys and Wolfgang Krauss from KIT, Germany, for numerous discussions on construction of a PbLi loop starting from 2009. YU would like to thank Kuniaki Ara and Masaru Hirabayashi from Japan Atomic Energy Agency for fruitful discussions on UDV.

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U.S. Department of Energy	DE-FG02-86ER52123-A040

Keywords

Fusion blanket
Lead-lithium
Liquid metal loop
MHD experiment
Magnetohydrodynamics

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