{"id":906,"date":"2017-12-14T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/in-abstract\/?p=906"},"modified":"2018-04-19T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:01:44","slug":"microfluidic-setup-to-study-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/in-abstract\/microfluidic-setup-to-study-corrosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of a Microfluidic Setup to Study the Corrosion Product Deposition in Accelerated Flow Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Novel Approach to Investigate CRUD Deposition<\/strong><\/p>\n

The formation, accumulation and release of corrosion products in water-cooling circuits of nuclear power plants causes serious issues such as a reduction of heat transfer from the primary to the secondary circuit, an increased radiation field around the primary circuit, a perturbation of the power distribution along the reactor core and change in the response of measurement components.<\/p>\n

Corrosion studies are presently carried out using expensive, large-scale test rigs that replicate the operating conditions and water chemistry of nuclear stations. Now, researchers at the University of Manchester and Rolls-Royce have proposed a new innovative, small-scale micro-fluidic test system specifically conceived to study corrosion products deposition in nuclear reactor water circuits. This new microsystem is much cheaper to build and operate and is extremely sensitive to environmental changes, thus holding the promise of achieving a better understanding of corrosion in nuclear reactors in the future.<\/p>\n

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