The separation of hydrogen isotopes is a vital step in preparing tritium and deuterium fuels
for future fusion power plants. This represents a fundamental challenge to fusion energy …

Commercial fusion energy will require an energy-producing fusion plasma core (the “fire”)
surrounded by an integrated engineering system (the “fireplace”). This article focuses on the …

Palladium and palladium alloy membranes are superior materials for hydrogen purification,
removal, or reaction processes. Sieverts' Law suggests that the flux of hydrogen through …

As hydrogen gains interest as energy vector, so it happens for its purification techniques. In
particular, dense metallic membranes are a promising technology for many high …

In this study, the optimal permeance ratio and layers distribution in multilayer membranes
and thin films in which each layer obeys the following real-power law: F lux= π i (P 1, ini− P …

Zirconium nitride (ZrN) is explored as a hydrogen permeable, intermetallic diffusion barrier
for stable, high temperature operation of composite palladium-vanadium membranes for …

Vanadium-based membranes have great potential for hydrogen purification due to their
perfect selectivity, high permeability, and relatively low cost. With appropriate surface …

A forced convection PbLi loop has been designed and constructed to test tritium extraction
from molten PbLi. This Tritium Extraction eXperiment (TEX) is designed to operate at …

Our recent work has shown that vanadium carbide (VC) films prepared by radio frequency
magnetron sputtering (RFMS) can be used as H 2 dissociation/recombination catalysts on …

Permeation is investigated for the introduction of hydrogen isotopes into lead lithium (PbLi)
for the Tritium Extraction eXperiment (TEX). TEX is a forced-convection PbLi loop under …