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The mechanical analysis of nuclear fuel behavior under base-irradiation conditions has traditionally been performed adopting the small-strain approximation. However, many cases of interest for fuel behavior involve the occurrence of large rod deformations ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA20233D Characterisation of Turbulent Plasma Filaments Using Gas Puff Imaging in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable
A key challenge for the development of fusion reactors based on magnetic confinement, such as tokamaks and stellarators, is the control of the turbulent processes. The most prominent feature of turbulence in the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL), the volume between t ...
EPFL2023Multi-physics modeling of VVERs with high fidelity high-resolution codes
The calculations performed for the design and operation of a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) are a key factor for their safety analyses. The standard for the computational analysis of NPPs is the so called conventional approach, which relies on coarse mesh diffu ...
EPFL2022Thermodynamic modelling of hydrogen production in sorbent-enhanced biochar-direct chemical looping process
Hydrogen (H-2) has been widely considered the clean energy carrier of choice for emerging renewable energy generation technologies. However, H-2 is a secondary fuel mainly derived from natural gas. Over the past decades, research on developing H-2 producti ...
2022Delayed Hydride Cracking in Irradiated and Unirradiated Zircaloy-2 Cladding
Zirconium alloys used in the nuclear industry are exposed to extreme conditions undergoing high levels of irradiation damage and corrosion. Zircaloy-2 is used as nuclear fuel cladding in boiling water reactors and for the encapsulation of the spallation ta ...
EPFL2022Towards coupling conventional with high-fidelity fuel behavior analysis tools
Andreas Pautz, Carlo Fiorina, Alessandro Scolaro, Edoardo Luciano Brunetto
Multi-dimensional fuel performance codes have the potential to enhance the understanding of complex phenomena affecting fuel integrity, but their application is often limited by the high computational cost. Recognizing that many multi-dimensional aspects s ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022Construction of Fe3O4 bridged Pt/g-C3N4 heterostructure with enhanced solar to fuel conversion
Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin
In this study, we report the effects of co-catalysts of Pt nanoparticles and Fe3O4 clusters on photocatalytic behaviors of g-C3N4 (CN) and the use of the resulting photocatalyst for CO2 photoreduction to solar fuels in a flow reactor operated at room-tempe ...
ELSEVIER2022Advanced methodologies for modeling and assessment of SFR safety functions
The present doctoral work was performed to contribute to the conceptual design development and safety assessment of a Generation IV Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) in the frame of the European Sodium Fast Reactor Safety Measures Assessment and Research Tools (ES ...
EPFL2022The impacts of the gas diffusion layer contact angle on the water management of the proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Three-dimensional simulation and optimization
Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani
Water management of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is an important parameter to improve efficiency, especially in cold weather conditions. The generated water of the electrochemical reactions inside PEMFC may stay inside the cell and fill t ...
WILEY2022Investigation of the Fission Matrix methodology using the Monte Carlo code Serpent 2 and application to the CROCUS reactor
The Laboratory ofReactor Physics and System Behaviour (LRS) at EPFL is finalising the preparation of a detection system for dynamic studies on the CROCUS experimental reactor. In order to model the temporal behaviour of the reactor within the framework of ...
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