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Effect of hot spots in microstructured reactors on product distribution during quasi-instantaneous exothermic reactions

Albert Renken, John Richard Thome, Lioubov Kiwi, Thomas Maeder, Navid Borhani, Bo Jiang, Julien Haber

Background. The small characteristic sizes (in the range of 102 - 103 μm) of Microstructured reactors (MSR) lead to very high specific interfacial area which, in turn, increases heat- and mass transfer efficiency. However, for quasi instantaneous exothermi ...

2013

Gamma-ray spectrometric measurements of fission rate ratios between fresh and burnt fuel following irradiation in a zero-power reactor

Rakesh Chawla

The gamma-ray activity from short-lived fission products has been measured in fresh and burnt UO2 fuel samples after irradiation in a zero-power reactor. For the first time, short-lived gamma-ray activity from fresh and burnt fuel has been compared and fre ...

Elsevier2013

Compositional timing analysis: power plant protection system case study

Simon Bliudze

We introduce a method for studying temporal behaviour of the so-called Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous (GALS) systems, that is systems consisting of synchronous computing elements communicating over asynchronous channels. Our method is based on ...

ACM2011

Fission Rates Measured Using High-Energy Gamma-Rays from Short Half-Life Fission Products in Fresh and Spent Nuclear Fuel

Hanna Kröhnert

In recent years, higher discharge burn-ups and initial fuel enrichments have led to more and more heterogeneous core configurations in light water reactors (LWRs), especially at the beginning of cycle when fresh fuel assemblies are loaded next to highly bu ...

EPFL2011

5f-Element complexes with a p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene bearing phosphinoyl pendant arms: Separation from rare earths and structural studies

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli

Phosphinoylated calixarenes feature high coordination ability toward f elements and a great potentiality toward actinide/rare earth separation. Here, we report three characteristic properties of a tetra-phosphinoylated p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene, B(4)bL(4) ...

Elsevier2011

Freshly induced short-lived gamma-ray activity as a measure of fission rates in lightly re-irradiated spent fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Hanna Kröhnert

A new measurement technique has been developed to determine fission rates in burnt fuel following re-irradiation in a zero-power research reactor The development has been made in the frame of the LIFE@PROTEUS program at the Paul Scherrer Institute which ai ...

2010

A novel compact reactor for three-phase hydrogenations

Albert Renken, Lioubov Kiwi, Madhvanand Namadeo Kashid, Martin Grasemann

A novel reactor based on a bubble column staged by structured catalytic layers with integrated cross flow micro-heat-exchangers (HEX) was designed and tested in the solvent free hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol (MBY) aiming on process intensification ...

Elsevier2010

Power and cogeneration technology environomic performance typification in the context of CO2 abatement part I: Power generation

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Hongtao Li

In this series of two articles, the concepts and approaches of environomic (thermodynamic, economic and environmental) performance ‘Typification’ of power generation technologies (Part I) and of combined heat and power (CHP) cogeneration technologies (Part ...

Elsevier2010

Comparative transient analysis of critical and subcritical 80-MW Pb-Bi eutectic-cooled reactor systems

Rakesh Chawla, Konstantin Mikityuk

A consistent analytical comparison has been made of the transient behavior of critical and subcritical fast-spectrum reactor systems, the basic core design assumed in each case being that of the 80-MW(thermal) mixed-oxide-fueled, Pb-Bi-cooled, experimental ...

American Nucl. Soc.2007

Zeolite/sintered metal fibers composites as effective structured catalysts

Albert Renken, Lioubov Kiwi

The catalytic filters of sintered metal fibers (SMF) coated by thin MFI-type zeolite (silicalite-1, ZSM-5) films have been synthesized and tested in the reactor with structured catalytic bed. The catalysts show multifunctional behavior, combining catalysis ...

2005

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