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Effect of Li metal addition on corrosion control of Hastelloy N and stainless steel 316H in molten LiF-NaF-KF

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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
卷 555, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2021.153098

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Molten salt; Corrosion; FLiNaK; Lithium; Redox control

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  1. Nuclear Energy University Pro-gram (NEUP) [DENE0008749]

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The study shows that the addition of Li metal can effectively control the redox behavior of salt and mitigate corrosion. Even small quantities of Li metal can reduce the selective dissolution of active alloying elements in FLiNaK for the tested structural materials.
Molten fluoride salts are used in various energy harvesting applications such as solar collectors and molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs). Thermodynamically driven selective dissolution of alloying elements due to impurities present within the fluoride salts have been identified to be the main corrosion mechanism for structural alloys in molten fluoride salts. Impurities in these salts, during salt preparation as well as during operation, can be difficult to control. One way to prevent the selective dissolution of active alloying elements is to make the molten salt reducing by either purifying it to remove impurities or to add some reactive metal that will react with the impurities and make the salt reducing. This study is focused on the corrosion behaviour of Hastelloy N and 316H stainless steel in molten LiF-NaF-KF eutectic mixture (FLiNaK) at 700 degrees C and how this behaviour changes with the addition of Li metal as a reducing impurity. Our results indicate that the active metal addition like Li can be very effective in controlling the redox behaviour of salt, which in-turn can mitigate corrosion. Even the addition of small quantities of Li metal can mitigate the selective dissolution of active alloying elements for the tested structural materials in FLiNaK. Our results also suggest that the presence of excess amounts of Li, above the minimum concentration required to react with the impurities in FLiNaK, does not have any detrimental effect in terms of formation of new intermetallic phases at the surface of the selected alloys under tested conditions. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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