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Pin-by-Pin Treatment of LWR Cores with Cross Section Equivalence Procedures and Higher-Order Transport Methods

This thesis presents a systematic study on the merits and limitations on using pin-by-pin resolution and transport theory based approaches for nuclear core design calculations. Starting from the lattice codes and an optimal cross section generation scheme, ...

EPFL2018

Method development for discrimination of anodic and cathodic signals in miniature fission chambers for reactor physics applications

In 2014, a measurement campaign was made at CEA Cadarache using different versions of a high sensibility miniature fission chamber prototype with two fissile layers. The current project studies the possibilities of discrimination between signals coming fro ...

2017

Design of Separated Element Reflector Experiments in CROCUS: PETALE

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Pavel Frajtag, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Stefan Radman

The present article describes the preliminary design studies for an oncoming experimental programme at the CROCUS facility. CROCUS is a teaching and research zero-power reactor operated by the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS) at t ...

2017

Future experimental programmes in the CROCUS reactor

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag

CROCUS is a teaching and research zero-power reactor operated by the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Three new experimental programmes are scheduled for the forthcoming years. ...

2016

Methods and Models for the Coupled Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis of the CROCUS Reactor at EFPL

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Adolfo Rais, Gaëtan Girardin

In order to analyze the steady state and transient behavior of the CROCUS reactor, several methods and models need to be developed in the areas of reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics, and multiphysics coupling. The long-term objectives of this project are ...

2015

Full Core modeling techniques for research reactors with irregular geometries using Serpent and PARCS applied to the CROCUS reactor

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Adolfo Rais, Gaëtan Girardin

This paper summarizes the results of modeling methodologies developed for the zero-power (100 W) teaching and research reactor CROCUS located in the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behavior (LRS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in L ...

2015

VERIFICATION OF A REACTOR PHYSICS CALCULATION SCHEME FOR THE CROCUS REACTOR

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Adolfo Rais, Gaëtan Girardin

CROCUS is a zero power (100 W) reactor of the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behavior (LRS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). It is used for teaching and research purposes. Its modeling has relied so far on diffusio ...

2014

Bacterial resource management for nutrient removal in aerobic granular sludge

David Gregory Weissbrodt

A holistic approach was developed towards efficient bacterial resource management for nutrient removal from wastewater in aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactors. Multiple reactor experiments from granulation start-up to operation at steady-state ...

2013

Bromate catalytic reduction in continuous mode using metal catalysts supported on monoliths coated with carbon nanofibers

Lioubov Kiwi

Nitrogen-doped and un-doped carbon nanofibers layers, denoted as N-CNFs and CNFs respectively, coating the walls of cordierite monoliths have been used as support for Pd and Ru catalyst. They have been tested in bromate reduction in batch and continuous op ...

Elsevier2013

Experimental Validation of 3-D Reconstructed Pin Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies with Partial-Length Rods

Rakesh Chawla, Flavio Dante Giust

Total fission rate measurements have been performed on full-size boiling water reactor fuel assemblies of type SVEA-96 Optima2 in the framework of phase III of the light water reactor (LWR)PROTEUS experimental program at Paul Scherrer Institute. This paper ...

Amer Nuclear Soc2013

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