The reactor uses electrical current and heat to create a hot, charged state called a plasma, which is encased by powerful magnets so that parts of the atoms can collide and fuse, releasing massive quantities of energy in the process.
To measure the distribution of the gas holdup throughout the aerated reactor, four electrical resistance tomography planes were installed around the reactor.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 a Scheme of the homemade tube batch microreactor: 1 molten salt bath 2 batch tube reactor, 3 electrical heater, 4 high-pressure valve, 5 low-pressure gauge 6 high-pressure gauge, 7 mixer 8 k-type thermocouple, 9 temperature controller.
In 1978 a law was enacted prohibiting the construction and operation of fission reactors for electrical power generation.
About 40percentt of the fires reported at reactors involve electrical problems, in part due to the vast amount of cables and circuitry snaking through the plant.
The current baseline concept is a tokamak reactor with net electrical output power of Pel ∼ 500 MW and plasma pulse duration of tpulse ∼2 h.
The results obtained showed that the reactor pressure, the electrical power and the raw material feed rates all have an important effect on the synthesis of fullerenes.
The reactor has excellent electrical stability over time due to the good circulation that prevents the accumulation of flocs on the electrodes.
The installation represents a thermal-hydraulic scaled model of the MYRRHA reactor, with an electrical core simulator, cooled by Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE).
A complete factorial experimental design was used to study the effect of temperature, reactor configuration and electrical current on the conversion of lactose into lactulose in an electro-activation reactor.
