Collection of ENEA technology and expertise
CORE Facility
Application sectors
Problem to solve
CORE aims to cover research aspects currently missing in the European scenery, but necessary in the LFR field. In particular, it focuses on erosion and flow corrosion on structural steels, on conditioning and control of lead chemistry, and the removal of its impurites.
Description
The facility is mainly composed of a main vessel containing the pump, a storage vessel, four test sections (corrosion with 32 samples, erosion with 3 samples, cold trap and filtering), an economiser, two heaters, an air cooler (to regulate the temperature of the two legs of the facility) and a gas panel (for the conditioning of the lead and the Ar supply to the cover gas of the vessels). The lead reaches 520 °C in the cold leg and 650 °C in the hot leg. The conditioning, which consists of obtaining the correct concentration of oxygen in the lead, can be carried out in both the main vessel and the storage vessel. The amount of lead that the facility can handle is about 4.5 t.
Innovative aspects and advantages
- Ability to perform tests over long periods of time
- Ability to perform tests requiring high lead temperatures
- Facility suitable for various types of lead chemistry tests
Admissible applications
- Cleaning and filtering tests of lead impurities
- Flowing tests of material corrosion in lead
- Qualification of structural materials for LFR
- Tests of conditioning and control of the lead chemistry
- Tests of material erosion in lead
Research group involved
Revision date
11-04-2025
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