Thermal conductivity of Mo-reinforced ZrO2 composites fabricated by spark plasma sintering for inert matrix fuels

In order to improve nuclear reactor’s performance and safety, a new-type fuel, Inert Matrix Dispersion Pellet (IMDP) with greatly enhanced thermal conductivity was studied. In this paper, the pellet was developed by Spark Plasma Sintering Technique (SPS), which brings an improved thermal conductivity compared with normal method and exhibits fully dense SiC matrix with a higher TRISO volume in kernel of pellet. Thermal-physical properties of the IMDP from room temperature to 1400 °C were investigated. The thermal conductivity improved 1100% at room temperature and 974% under 1000°C when TRISO volume is 40%, which behave much better than traditional UO2 fuel. The thermal diffusivity reduced and heat capacity increased at different TRISO volumes, linearly implied stable geometry at high temperature. From CT test we can see an intact structure of uniform TRISO granules. For comparison, modeling thermal conductivity is analyzed by FEM, which shows lower than measured data, indicating an optimized technology of this new method. Advantages of SPS will be discussed as well.

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Densification and Thermal Conductivity of Y2O3-Doped AlN Ceramics by Spark Plasma Sintering

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.352.227 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 352 ◽

pp. 227-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Qiang Shen ◽

Z.D. Wei ◽

Mei Juan Li ◽

Lian Meng Zhang

Keyword(s):

Thermal Conductivity ◽

Grain Boundaries ◽

Spark Plasma Sintering ◽

Particle Surface ◽

Boundary Phase ◽

Homogeneous Microstructure ◽

Densification Mechanism ◽

Sintering Additive ◽

Plasma Sintering ◽

Spark Plasma

AlN ceramics doped with yttrium oxide (Y2O3) as the sintering additive were prepared via the spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique. The sintering behaviors and densification mechanism were mainly investigated. The results showed that Y2O3 addition could promote the AlN densification. Y2O3-doped AlN samples could be densified at low temperatures of 1600-1700oC in 20-25 minutes. The AlN samples were characterized with homogeneous microstructure. The Y-Al-O compounds were created on the grain boundaries due to the reactions between Y2O3 and Al2O3 on AlN particle surface. With increasing the sintering temperature, AlN grains grew up, and the location of grain boundaries as well as the phase compositions changed. The Y/Al ratio in the aluminates increased, from Y3Al5O12 to YAlO3 and to Y4Al2O9. High-density, the growth of AlN grains and the homogenous dispersion of boundary phase were helpful to improve the thermal conductivity of AlN ceramics. The thermal conductivity of 122Wm-1K-1 for the 4.0 mass%Y2O3-doped AlN sample was reached.

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In-situ synthesis of n-type unfilled skutterudite with reduced thermal conductivity by hybrid flash-spark plasma sintering

Scripta Materialia ◽

10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.07.028 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 157 ◽

pp. 58-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Francesco Gucci ◽

Theo Graves Saunders ◽

Michael John Reece

Keyword(s):

Thermal Conductivity ◽

Spark Plasma Sintering ◽

In Situ Synthesis ◽

Plasma Sintering ◽

Spark Plasma

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Thermoelectric properties of Cu3SbSe3 with intrinsically ultralow lattice thermal conductivity

Journal of Materials Chemistry A ◽

10.1039/c4ta02590c ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (38) ◽

pp. 15829-15835 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Kriti Tyagi ◽

Bhasker Gahtori ◽

Sivaiah Bathula ◽

A. K. Srivastava ◽

A. K. Shukla ◽

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Keyword(s):

Thermal Conductivity ◽

Solid State ◽

Spark Plasma Sintering ◽

Thermoelectric Properties ◽

Solid State Reaction ◽

Electrical Transport ◽

Single Phase ◽

Lattice Thermal Conductivity ◽

Plasma Sintering ◽

Spark Plasma

Intrinsically ultra-low thermal conductivity and electrical transport in single-phase Cu2SbSe3 synthesized employing a solid state reaction and spark plasma sintering.

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