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Article

MHD R&D Activities for Liquid Metal Blankets

by
Chiara Mistrangelo
1,*,
Leo Bühler
1,
Ciro Alberghi
2,
Serena Bassini
3,
Luigi Candido
2,
Cyril Courtessole
1,
Alessandro Tassone
4,
Fernando R. Urgorri
5 and
Oleg Zikanov
6
1
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
2
ESSENTIAL Group, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
3
ENEA FSN-ING Division, C.R. Brasimone, Bacino del Brasimone, 40032 Camugnano, Italy
4
DIAEE Nuclear Section, Sapienza University of Rome, 00186 Rome, Italy
5
National Fusion Laboratory, CIEMAT, 28040 Madrid, Spain
6
College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128-1491, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Energies 2021, 14(20), 6640; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206640
Submission received: 31 August 2021 / Revised: 20 September 2021 / Accepted: 22 September 2021 / Published: 14 October 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal-Hydraulics in Nuclear Fusion Technology: R&D and Applications)
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Abstract

According to the most recently revised European design strategy for DEMO breeding blankets, mature concepts have been identified that require a reduced technological extrapolation towards DEMO and will be tested in ITER. In order to optimize and finalize the design of test blanket modules, a number of issues have to be better understood that are related to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) interactions of the liquid breeder with the strong magnetic field that confines the fusion plasma. The aim of the present paper is to describe the state of the art of the study of MHD effects coupled with other physical phenomena, such as tritium transport, corrosion and heat transfer. Both numerical and experimental approaches are discussed, as well as future requirements to achieve a reliable prediction of these processes in liquid metal blankets.
Keywords: liquid metal blankets; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); tritium; corrosion; convection; turbulence; WCLL blanket; DCLL blanket liquid metal blankets; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); tritium; corrosion; convection; turbulence; WCLL blanket; DCLL blanket

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Mistrangelo, C.; Bühler, L.; Alberghi, C.; Bassini, S.; Candido, L.; Courtessole, C.; Tassone, A.; Urgorri, F.R.; Zikanov, O. MHD R&D Activities for Liquid Metal Blankets. Energies 2021, 14, 6640. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206640

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Mistrangelo C, Bühler L, Alberghi C, Bassini S, Candido L, Courtessole C, Tassone A, Urgorri FR, Zikanov O. MHD R&D Activities for Liquid Metal Blankets. Energies. 2021; 14(20):6640. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206640

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Mistrangelo, Chiara, Leo Bühler, Ciro Alberghi, Serena Bassini, Luigi Candido, Cyril Courtessole, Alessandro Tassone, Fernando R. Urgorri, and Oleg Zikanov. 2021. "MHD R&D Activities for Liquid Metal Blankets" Energies 14, no. 20: 6640. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206640

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Mistrangelo, C., Bühler, L., Alberghi, C., Bassini, S., Candido, L., Courtessole, C., Tassone, A., Urgorri, F. R., & Zikanov, O. (2021). MHD R&D Activities for Liquid Metal Blankets. Energies, 14(20), 6640. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206640

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