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Bhattacharyay, R.; Patel, A.; Ellappan, R.; Swain, P. K.; Satyamurthy, P.; Kumar, S.; Ivanov, S.; Shishko, A.; Platacis, E.; Ziks, A. (ATDS)
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Fusion Engineering & Design, 2013. Vol. 88: pp. 2244-2250 |
ABSTRACT
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In Indian Lead Lithium cooled Ceramic Breeder (LLCB) blanket concept, Lead–Lithium (Pb–Li) liquid metalis used to extract heat from its own bulk volume and also from the neighboring solid breeder zones. Themoderate flow velocity of Pb–Li inside the module can be significantly modified due to MHD effects,which arise because of the presence of strong toroidal magnetic field. Recently, two MHD experimentshave been jointly carried out at Institute of Physics, University of Latvia (IPUL) with hot Pb–Li (∼350◦C)as the working fluid under a strong transverse magnetic field of up to ∼4.0 T. The uncoated test sectionsare made of SS316L material and consist of LLCB TBM relevant flow geometries, such as rectangular andcircular flow cross-sections, 90◦bends, rectangular to circular flow transition region. The details of theliquid metal MHD experimental set up and experimental results are discussed in this paper. |
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