Microstructure of as received beryllium. The typical microstructure of 1 mm beryllium pebbles produced by rotating electrode process 17 is shown in Fig. 1.The polished cross-section through the ...Web
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Section snippets Objectives of the high dose beryllium (HIDOBE) irradiation programme. Beryllium that has been irradiated in earlier HFR irradiation experiments, like in the EXOTIC series and in the HCPB pebble bed assembly irradiation, is characterised by only low helium production from 200 to 650. appm at temperatures up to 600 °C.. …Web
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ABSTRACT Beryllium, in its pebble form, has been proposed in various blanket concepts to serve different purposes. Thermal property data for such a heterogeneous packed bed is needed, particularly … Expand. 22. PDF. Save. Homogenization treatment to stabilize the compositional structure of beryllide pebbles.Web
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The helium cooled pebble bed blanket, proposed by the European Community for the demonstration reactor (DEMO), is based on ceramic breeder pebble beds and beryllium pebble beds. Also, pebble beds …Web
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1.. IntroductionIn the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) blanket [1] beryllium in form of a mixed bed of 2 mm and 0.1–0.2 mm size pebbles is used as neutron multiplier. In order to characterize the thermomechanical behavior of beryllium pebble beds and their heat transfer coefficients experiments have to be performed, in which, as beryllium is an …Web
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1.. IntroductionIn the helium cooled pebble bed (HCPB) blanket for fusion power reactors [1] the neutron multiplier and the breeder material are arranged in pebble beds between flat cooling plates. The maximum temperatures in the breeder and beryllium pebble beds are about 900 and 650. °C respectively.. Because of temperature …Web
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For a beryllium pebble bed with 2-mm diameter pebbles and a packing fraction of 60.6% and helium at atmospheric pressure, the effective conductivity increases from 2.29 to 3 W/m.K with the ...Web
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The first type of experiments focusing on the interfaces between a beryllium pebble bed and container wall was carried out in a stainless steel container. Beryllium pebbles had a diameter of 2 mm and two levels of packing factors, namely, 60% and 63% [6]. Due to the experimental set-up, it was not easy to separate the influences of …Web
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Abstract Beryllium is used as neutron multiplier in the form of a pebble bed. Basic characteristics of the beryllium pebbles are required to the design of blanket. From this point view, production methods and basic characteristics including particle morphology and mechanical properties of beryllium pebbles were investigated. TheWeb
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For beryllium pebble beds, no data existed at all. An overview on the status of the pebble bed work is given in [4]. In this article, further results from UCTs are presented for different ceramics. Additionally, stress/strain and thermal creep data for beryllium pebble beds are reported, obtained in a separate UCT facility.Web
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Neutron multiplier materials are essential for self-sufficient tritium production and are closing the fuel cycle of fusion reactors. Until now, a concept of pebble bed consisting of interchanging layers of beryllium and lithium ceramic pebbles was considered for the Helium-Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) tritium-breeding module of the first …Web
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Beryllium will be used as a neutron multiplier material in the present European HCPB (Helium Cooled Pebble Bed) blanket concept of the DEMO fusion reactor. Therefore, investigation of neutron irradiation influence on dimension stability of beryllium is very important. In this paper, the radiation damage of the TE-56 beryllium grade …Web
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The plant produced its very first batch of beryllium pebbles on 15 April 2011. Beryllium pebble qualification and the Initial Operational Capability of the plant were achieved in December 2011, with normal plant operations beginning in January 2012. Initial funding was provided through DoD increases to the DPA Title III budget.Web
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1.. IntroductionA high dose irradiation programme of beryllium in the high flux reactor in Petten will be performed in the frame of the European Programme for development of the helium cooled pebble bed (HCPB) to study the irradiation behaviour of beryllium pebble beds on dimensional stability and their tritium retention behaviour [1], …Web
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Section snippets The heat transfer experiments. The binary bed of beryllium pebbles is formed by pebbles of two different sizes, namely: • Pebbles of 2±0.3 mm in diameter, made by the firm Brush Wellman as an intermediate product in the production of beryllium with the method of Mg reduction of BeF 2 (average density of the pebble …Web
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Fig. 1 shows the thermal conductivity of a binary (2 and 0.1 mm) pebble bed without constraint (Δl/l=0) versus the average pebble bed temperature [36].The bed thermal conductivity varies very little with bed temperature. This is because the beryllium thermal conductivity decreases with temperature, whereas the thermal conductivity of helium …Web
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Beryllium pebble behaviour has been studied regarding the accidental operation conditions of tritium breeding blanket of fusion reactors. Structure evolution, oxidation and thermal properties have been compared for nonirradiated and neutron irradiated beryllium pebbles during thermal treatment in a temperature range from …Web
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Only three countries, the United States, China, and Kazakhstan currently process beryllium ores and concentrates into beryllium products. Learn more about Beryllium including material safety, product innovations and …Web
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Experiments were performed on beryllium pebbles produced with the Rotating Electrode Method (REM) by the NGK company, with diameters between 0.84 …Web
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Beryllium, in its pebble form, has been proposed in various blanket concepts to serve different purposes. Thermal property data for such a heterogeneous packed bed is needed, particularly data on ...Web
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In this paper, the mechanical and structure characteristics of the Beryllium (Be) pebble bed in the Helium Coolant Ceramic Breeding (HCCB) blanket were investigated. Furthermore, the evolution process of the pebble bed with mesoscale is analyzed as well. The Discrete Element Method (DEM) with Particle Flow Code (PFC) …Web
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The thermomechanical interaction of solid breeder and beryllium pebble beds with structural material (BSMI) has been identified as a critical issue for solid …Web
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The temperatures reached in the Li4SO4 and beryllium pebble beds in the BU base design are 930.8 °C and 712.9 °C, respectively, which are above the recommended values of 920 °C for Li4SO4 and ...Web
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The Advanced Helium Cooled Pebble Bed Blanket (see Fig.1) exhibits the same basic design features as the European DEMO HCPB blanket, which is based on the use of separate ceramic breeder and beryllium pebble beds placed between cooling plates. The separation between breeder and multiplier in form of a pebble bed is necessary to avoidWeb
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The helium-cooled pebble bed (HCPB) blanket for a fusion DEMO reactor is based on the use of separate small lithium orthosilicate and beryllium pebble beds placed between radial toroidal cooling plates. The cooling is provided by helium at 8 MPa. The tritium produced in the pebble beds is purged by the flow of helium at 0.1 MPa.Web
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Global beryllium mine production by major countries 2022. The United States is the world's largest beryllium mine producer by far, with production amounting to 180 metric tons in 2022. China was ...Web
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Tritium breeder (Li2TiO3) pebble (φ=1mm) First wall F82H Neutron multiplier (Beryllium) pebble (φ=1mm) Fig. 1 Schematic view of the water cooled solid breeder blanket being developed by JAEA B-B' Cross-sectional View Beryllium (102) Li 2TiO3(12) DT neutron source Neutron reflector, SS316 Mockup enclosure, SS316 ∅ 800 600 Beam …Web
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Results from thermal creep experiments on beryllium pebble beds consisting of 1 mm NGK pebbles are presented. The experiments were performed in the uniaxial test facility HECOP II at temperatures ranging between 450 °C and 650 °C and under uniaxial stresses up to 3.6 MPa.A correlation of the type ε cr = A exp − B T σ p t n was …Web
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pebble bed quantities as a function of temperature such as i) the deformation behavior (stress-strain, - relation and ii) the effective thermal conductivity, k. There is a large database for both the granular ceramic breeder materials (the reader is referred to the corresponding literature) and beryllium pebble beds, see e.g. [13,14].Web
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The features of the application of beryllium and beryllides as a neutron multiplier in the breeder blanket for power reactors (e.g. DEMO) in pebble-bed form are described. Introduction Nowadays, three main areas of beryllium application in fusion reactors may be outlined, which are characterized by specific sets of requirements [1], …Web
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The thermomechanical behavior of titanium beryllide pebble beds was investigated experimentally at ambient temperature in helium. The pebbles consist of a mixture of TiBe 12 and Ti 2 Be 17 titanate beryllide phases and a small residual amount of Be phase, denominated as Be-7.7Ti.. For purposes of comparison, experiments in air …Web
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Beryllium is used in the form of a packed pebble bed where temperature control is required because the pebble bed thermal conductivity could be controlled through adjusting purge gas compositions and operating ranges. In general, the pebble bed can be treated as an homogeneous medium and the heat transfer parametersWeb
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Pebble production A proposal on fusion blanket design to use beryllium pebbles has been made by Japan during International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor conceptual de- sign activity, i.e. the pebble-bed-type tritium breeding blanket, and in-pile mock-up tests based on the pebble- bed-type tritium breeding blanket are being …Web
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2010 – New beryllium pebble plant opens at the Elmore facility completed under an innovative private-public, cost-sharing partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense. 2011 – Materion acquires Shanghai-based EIS …Web
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