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SCALE/AMPX multigroup libraries for sodium-cooled fast reactor systems

New multigroup cross section libraries and associated covariance files that are optimized for the analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactors were generated with the AMPX tools distributed with the SCALE code system. These new libraries account for the fast ne ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Coupled Reforming/Combustor System for the Production of H2 via Hydrocarbon-Based Fuels

Theodoros Damartzis

The present work aims to provide insights into the dynamic operation of a coupled reformer/combustion unit that can utilize a variety of saturated hydrocarbons (HCs) with 1–4 C atoms towards H2 production (along with CO2). Within this concept, a preselecte ...

2020

Systematic Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Systems

Friederike Bostelmann

Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) technologies have the potential to guarantee energy supply and to reduce the burden of nuclear waste for future generations. For an adequate simulation of these reactor systems, well-established tools that have so far been ...

EPFL2020

Analysis of the sorption-enhanced chemical looping biomass gasification process: Performance assessment and optimization through design of experiment approach

François Maréchal, Thanaphorn Detchusananard

In this study, the performance of high-purity hydrogen production through the sorption-enhanced chemical looping gasification (SECLG) process, involving a gasifier, calciner, and air reactor, was investigated. In this process, the biomass feedstock was woo ...

2020

The EQL0D fuel cycle procedure and its application to the transition to equilibrium of selected molten salt reactor designs

Andreas Pautz, Boris Aviv Hombourger

In recent years, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs), one of the Generation IV concepts, have noticeably gained in interest. Several molten salt reactor types use fuel in liquid form, bringing various advantages, notably in terms of fuel cycle. However, simulating ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

The Periostin/Integrin-alpha v Axis Regulates the Size of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Pool in the Fetal Liver

Jörg Hülsken

We earlier showed that outside-in integrin signaling through POSTN-ITGAV interaction plays an important role in regulating adult he-matopoietic stem cell (HSC) quiescence. Here, we show that Itgav deletion results in increased frequency of phenotypic HSCs ...

2020

On the Electronic and Optical Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Case Study of MIL-125 and MIL-125-NH2

Berend Smit, Alfredo Pasquarello, Kyriakos Stylianou, Francesco Ambrosio, Gloria Capano, Stavroula Kampouri

The photo-active MIL-125 and MIL-125-NH2 metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), despite having a very similar crystalline structure, exhibit different optical behaviors. Luminescence in MIL-125 decays in about 1 ns, while for its amino counterpart, the lifetime ...

2020

Isotope dependence of energy, momentum and particle confinement in tokamaks

Henri Weisen, Yann Camenen, Javier García Hernández, Michele Marin

The isotope dependence of plasma transport will have a significant impact on the performance of future D-T experiments in JET and ITER and eventually on the fusion gain and economics of future reactors. In preparation for future D-T operation on JET, dedic ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Review of kinetic modulation experiments in low power nuclear reactors

Vincent Pierre Lamirand

The safety improvement of nuclear reactors requires continuous efforts in understanding the fundamental physical quantities related to the fission process. In neutronic models, the reactor dynamics is covered by the kinetic parameters to characterize the t ...

2020

Application of multiphysics model order reduction to doppler/neutronic feedback

Carlo Fiorina

In this paper, a proper orthogonal decomposition based reduced-order model is presented for parametrized multiphysics computations. Our application physics is Doppler feedback in a simplified model of the molten salt fast reactor concept. The reduced model ...

EDP Sciences2019

Growth, Integration, and Functional Characterization of AlScN Thin Films for RF MEMS Devices

Fazel Parsapour

Mobile communication has grown explosively in recent years, leading to a strong demand for cheap, but high-performing bandpass filters with low insertion loss and smaller size. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) and thin film bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators r ...

EPFL2019