Environmental degradation of structural materials in liquid lead-and lead-bismuth eutectic-cooled reactors

X Gong, MP Short, T Auger… - Progress in materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liquid lead (Pb)-and lead–bismuth eutectic (LBE)-cooled fast neutron reactors (Gen-IV
LFRs) are one of the most technologically mature fission reactor technologies, due to their …

A review of liquid metal high temperature heat pipes: Theoretical model, design, and application

Z Tian, C Wang, K Guo, D Zhang, GH Su, W Tian… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adopting liquid metals as the working fluid, high temperature heat pipes (HTHPs) can
operate at a high temperature above 750 K and have extremely high heat transfer capacity …

Materials compatibility for the next generation of Concentrated Solar Power plants

M Sarvghad, SD Maher, D Collard, M Tassan… - Energy Storage …, 2018 - Elsevier
The next generation of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants are expected to operate at
higher temperatures than those currently in use, for improved efficiency and reduced cost of …

CSP Gen3: Liquid-phase pathway to SunShot

CS Turchi, S Gage, J Martinek, S Jape, K Armijo… - 2021 - osti.gov
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) established the Concentrating Solar Power
Generation 3 (CSP Gen3) program to promote the development of advanced CSP systems …

A review of liquid metal embrittlement: cracking open the disparate mechanisms

JE Norkett, MD Dickey, VM Miller - Metallurgical and Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) is the term for a collection of phenomena by which the
action of a liquid metal in contact with the surface of a solid metal results in the weakening …

Zn penetration in liquid metal embrittled TWIP steel

H Kang, L Cho, C Lee, BC De Cooman - Metallurgical and Materials …, 2016 - Springer
Hot-dip Zn-coated high manganese twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel is sensitive to
liquid metal embrittlement (LME). The microstructure of Zn-coated TWIP steel after brittle …

A review of recent advances in the understanding of liquid metal embrittlement

DG Kolman - Corrosion, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Significant advances in the study of liquid metal embrittlement have occurred since 2000 but
there have been few reviews of the liquid metal embrittlement literature since that time. This …

Effect of silicon on the oxidation resistance of 9 wt.% Cr heat resistance steels in 550 C lead-bismuth eutectic

J Wang, S Lu, L Rong, D Li, Y Li - Corrosion Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The oxidation resistance of 9 wt.% Cr heat resistance steel with silicon content ranging from
0 to 1.36 wt.% in 550° C lead-bismuth eutectic was investigated. The silicon content had little …

Suppression of liquid-metal-embrittlement by twin-induced grain boundary engineering approach

MH Razmpoosh, A Macwan, F Goodwin, E Biro, Y Zhou - Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Grain boundary engineering (GBE) has lately been recognized as a viable approach to
manipulate grain boundary characteristics to improve resistance against intergranular …

Corrosion phenomena induced by liquid metals in Generation IV reactors

C Fazio, F Balbaud - Structural Materials for Generation IV Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
The understanding and prediction of corrosion phenomena in liquid metal-cooled reactors is
very important for the performance assessment of the structural materials of the different …