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1 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU_DEMO DCLL breeder blanket M. González, D. Rapisarda, A. Ibarra National Fusion Laboratory, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain.

2 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Flow Channel Inserts, the DCLL more challenging component Electrical insulation issue to minimize the MHD pressure drop Thermal insulator Withstand the thermal stress from temperature gradients Radiation resistant Chemical compatibility with PbLi from Norajitra’s 2003 design Si C Smoletsev et al, FST, 50 (2006) 107– 119

3 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. SiC US material for FCI applications SiC f /SiC composite foam-based SiC Remaining critical issues: SiC and Pb-17Li chemical compatibility – at flowing condition and temperature distribution. Mechanical integrity -- due to radiation induced swelling and temperature gradients induced mechanical stresses. Swelling -- radiation resistance combining high temperatures and high doses C.P.C. Wong et al. Fusion Science and Technology, 64 (2013) 623– 630

4 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. even when EU_DCLL is considering steel + alumina ceramic sandwich-like structures for the FCIs, is also SiC a reasonable choice for the low temperature in-channel insulation?

5 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Spanish experience on SiC (I) Objective Electrical insulation under temperature and ionizing radiation Material Different types of commercial SiC: 1) hot pressed (HP) SiC, 2) reaction bonded (RB) SiC, 3) high resistivity cubic CVD SiC (IMR, Tohoku University, Japan), 4) PVT N-6H SiC wafer (Tankeblue), 5) 2D and 3D SiC f /SiC (2D - Ube and 3D – Shikibo, Japan, provided by ENEA, Italy)

6 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Obtained results Monitoring SiC radiation damage (crystalline structure) evolution with ionizing irradiation and temperature by radiation induced luminescence (RL) and electrical conductivity. CVD SiC Spanish experience on SiC (I) M.T. Hernandez et al. FED, 86 (2011) 2242–2445 M.Malo et al. FED 89 (2014) 1274– 1279 HP SiC

7 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Objective Thermal and electrical insulator Mechanical strength to withstand strong thermal gradients and thermo-electrical stresses Resistant to PbLi corrosion Material CVD SiC coated porous SiC, to avoid liquid metal corrosion and T permeation Spanish experience on SiC (II)

8 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Obtained results N. Ordás et al. FED, 89 (2014) 1274–1279 The most promising porous SiC material is 82.5wt% SiC + 10wt% C + 7.5wt% Al2O3+Y2O3 sintered at 1950 ◦ C/30min. porous SiC Spanish experience on SiC (II)

9 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. The most promising compositions were 30 µm CVD SiC-coated. CVD SiC-coated porous SiC Obtained results (II) Spanish experience on SiC (II) N. Ordás et al. FED, 89 (2014) 1274–1279

10 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. even when EU_DCLL is considering steel + alumina ceramic sandwich-like structures for the FCIs, is also SiC a reasonable choice for the low temperature FCI insulation? Potential material: SiC-coated porous SiC Key properties to be tested (mainly radiation effects on insulator properties at operational conditions)

11 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Objectives: to select the appropriate material from available/commercial options CEIT porous SiC-coated SiC, commercial SiC f /SiC, and also SiC used in the US_DCLL engineering validation to complete databases Suggested Working Plan. Testing SiC ceramics as LT_DCLL FCI

12 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Objectives: to select the appropriate material from available/commercial options CEIT porous SiC-coated SiC, commercial SiC f /SiC, and also SiC used in the US_DCLL engineering validation to complete databases Suggested Working Plan. Testing SiC ceramics as LT_DCLL FCI we would appreciate if UCLA group could help us obtaining porous SiC to be tested for the LT EU_DCLL

13 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Objectives: to select the appropriate material from available/commercial options CEIT porous SiC-coated SiC, commercial SiC f /SiC, and also SiC used in the US_DCLL engineering validation to complete databases Suggested Working Plan. Testing SiC ceramics as LT_DCLL FCI

14 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. after thermal gradients, thermal cycles and LM -insulator properties retention: electrical and thermal conductivities - material integrity (cracking, steel-insulator detachment, …) at low working temperatures (up to 500C), including under ionizing radiation and irradiated material (post examination) testing Suggested Working Plan. Testing SiC ceramics as LT_DCLL FCI

15 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Thermo_mechanical tests (tensile, compression, 3- point bending) inside a double FE_SE + FIB microscope. Radiation effects (Radiation Induced Conductivity, Radiation Induced Electrical Degradation, …). Mainly ionizing radiation. Simulating internal diffusion of neutron reaction products (He). Suggested Working Plan: Complementary testing SiC ceramics

16 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. * electron-irradiation HVEC Van der Graaf accelerator = high vacuum (better than 3 x 10 -6 bars) = 1.8 MeV at a dose rate of 7kGy/s = irradiation temperatures upto 800ºC CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) Irradiation Facilities (I) VdG irradiation facility and Deuterium absorption + thermal induced-desorption measuring chamber electron beam direction

17 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Elemental depth profile analysis by using SIMS technique (secondary ion mass spectrometry) HIDEN SIMS Workstation. the depth monitoring of component species, impurities and dopants 6kV oxygen ion gun and LM Cs, as the primary ion sources. Chamber vacuum pressure better than 5 10 -8 mbars. Quadrupole mass spectrometer. HIDEN SIMS Workstation CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) Testing Facilities (II) Evolution of a mass signal as a function of time JUST AN EXAMPLE !! Not showing the breeder behaviour !!

18 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Microscopy inspection by means of FESEM. o On FIB-polished cross-sections of about 10 x 10 x few mm o Focussing on material degradation. o Complete structural and compositional study due to EBSD and EDX detection, respectively. FESEM + FIB Zeiss Auriga Compact Microtensile/compression testing inside of the FESEM Zeiss Auriga. o Typical specimen size: 50 x 10 x 5 mm o Loads from 10kN to 10N; resolution 1N to 0,01N o Heating element up to 800C o Adaptation to EBSD CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) Testing Facilities (III)

19 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. additionally, we offer our facilities and experience for characterizing US-SiC

20 M. González. “SiC as a FCI alternative material for an EU DEMO DCLL breeder blanket”. 2 nd EU_US DCLL Workshop. 14-15 Nov 2014. Los Angeles (CA), USA. Thanks so much for your attention Dr. M. González

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