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    • Advanced tools for ITER Tritium Plant System Modeling & Design 

      Nougués, José María; Feliu, Josep Anton; Campanyà, Gerard; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2020-01-01)
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      Chemical plant system modeling experience based on the use of largely validated commercial modeling tools such as the Aspen HYSYS is adapted and exploited to develop numeric routines for unitary isotopic operations, including ...
    • Atomistic simulations and theoretical predictions of helium nucleation in liquid Pb-Li eutectic alloy 

      Al Awad, Abdulrahman; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2022)
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      Liquid Lead-Lithium Eutectic (LLE) alloy is a promising candidate coolant and/or breeder to attain tritium self-sufficiency in the EU DEMO breeding blanket design. Liquid metals are characterized with excellent heat-transport ...
    • Desarrollo e implementación de un modelo de permeación de tritio en presencia de burbujas de helio para envolturas tritigénicas de metal líquido 

      Batet Miracle, Lluís; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2013)
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      En los canales de metal líquido (ML) de las envolturas regeneradoras de un reactor de fusión la posibilidad de formación de burbujas de helio no es remota. La presencia de burbujas adheridas a la pared de los canales de ...
    • Dynamic simulation tools for isotopic separation system modeling and design 

      Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Nougués, José María; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; Feliu, Josep Anton; Batet Miracle, Lluís (2021-08-01)
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      Cryogenic distillation is the best candidate for hydrogen isotopic separation in fusion power plants. The design of the ITER's Isotope Separation System can still undergo major changes due to its close contact with the ...
    • Hacia la monitorización dinámica del inventario de tritio en los sistemas auxiliares de un reactor de fusión 

      Batet Miracle, Lluís; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; Nougués, José María (2019)
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      La sostenibilidad de la fusión nuclear depende, entre otros condicionantes, de la capacidad de regeneración de tritio. Los requisitos de protección radiológica imponen severas limitaciones a las emisiones ambientales de ...
    • Mathematical models for tritium permeation analysis in liquid metal flows with helium bubbles 

      Batet Miracle, Lluís; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2014-10-01)
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      In LIBRETTO-2 test, evidence was obtained that helium bubbles nucleated and grew in the neutron irradiated PbLi probes. If such phenomenon occurs inside liquid metal (LM) breeding blanket channels, the study of its effect ...
    • Modelado de un ciclo de potencia de CO2 supercrítico para reactores de fusión utilizando RELAP5-3D 

      Batet Miracle, Lluís; Álvarez Fernández, Josep Maria; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Pérez, Marina; Martínez Quiroga, Víctor Manuel; Reventós Puigjaner, Francesc Josep; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2013)
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      En el marco del programa español de Tecnología de Fusión TECNO_FUS se ha avanzado en la definición de sistemas para DEMO, entre ellos las unidades reproductoras de tritio y el ciclo de potencia. Para las primeras, se ha ...
    • Modelling of a supercritical CO2 power cycle for nuclear fusion reactors using RELAP5-3D 

      Batet Miracle, Lluís; Álvarez Fernández, Josep Maria; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Martínez Quiroga, Víctor Manuel; Pérez-Ferragut, Marina; Reventós Puigjaner, Francesc Josep; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (2014-04-01)
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      A supercritical recompression CO2 power cycle has been simulated using the system code RELAP5-3D. This code is being developed by INL and has traditionally been used in the simulation of operational and accidental transients ...
    • Parametrization of embedded-atom method potential for liquid lithium and lead-lithium eutectic alloy 

      Al Awad, Abdulrahman; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel (Elsevier, 2023-09)
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      Liquid lead-lithium eutectic remains as a promising candidate for various breeding-blanket designs in future nuclear-fusion technologies. The lack of a generalized theory of interatomic forces in the liquid state is reflected ...
    • SMART_TC: an R&D Programme on uses of artificial intelligence techniques for tritium monitoring in complex ITER-like tritium plant systems 

      Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; Nougués, José María; Feliu, Josep Anton; Coya, Bruno; Batet Miracle, Lluís (2021-05)
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      The realization of nuclear fusion energy is nowadays based on the concept of tritium breeding and the success of the ITER experiment. The latter relies today on a static monitoring approach to fulfill the emission limits ...
    • The solubility of Helium in lead-lithium eutectic alloy 

      Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; ESTEBAN ALCALA, GUSTAVO ADOLFO; Cavaro, M; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Al Awad, Abdulrahman (2021)
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    • The solubility of helium in lead–lithium eutectic alloy 

      Sedano Miguel, Luis Ángel; Esteban, G.A.; Cavaro, Matthieu; Iraola de Acevedo, Eduardo; Al Awad, Abdulrahman; Batet Miracle, Lluís; Guasch, M. (Elsevier, 2022-06-01)
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      The helium production rates in liquid metals (Pb-Li eutectic alloy, LLE and others) Blanket Breeders (BB) are nearly mol-to-mol linked to tritium and intimately associated with the compulsory requirement of high tritium ...