Recent developments of solid breeder fabrication

R Knitter, P Chaudhuri, YJ Feng, T Hoshino… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
Worldwide research and development has been performed on solid breeder materials as a
tritium source for future fusion power reactors. These ceramic materials will be used in the …

Recent Progress in Research of Solid Tritium Breeder Materials Li2TiO3: A Review

K Xu, C Qi, B Wang - Coatings, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the past decades, fusion reactor fuels such as deuterium and tritium have been
extensively investigated due to increasing interest in nuclear fusion energy. Tritium, which is …

Preparation and characterization of lithium–titanate pebbles by solid-state reaction extrusion and spherodization techniques for fusion reactor

D Mandal, D Sathiyamoorthy, VG Rao - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2012 - Elsevier
For the development of TBM for fusion reactors, lithium containing ceramics as against the
metal are preferred as tritium breeding material. Lithium titanate (Li2TiO3) is one such …

Efficient fabrication of high strength Li2TiO3 ceramic pebbles via improved rolling ball method assisted by sesbania gum binder

G Tan, S Song, X Hu, L Cai, Y Li, Y Zhang - Ceramics International, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, a method combining the spray-drying process and rolling ball method was first
selected to mass fabricate Li 2 TiO 3 tritium breeder ceramic pebbles. Herein, we overcome …

Solution based synthesis of mixed-phase materials in the Li2TiO3–Li4SiO4 system

DAH Hanaor, MHH Kolb, Y Gan, M Kamlah… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
As candidate tritium breeder materials for use in the ITER helium cooled pebble bed,
ceramic multiphasic compounds lying in the region of the quasi-binary lithium metatitanate …

Voltage effects on lithium extraction/recovery via electrochemical pumping using a La0. 57Li0. 29TiO3 electrolyte

K Shin-mura, K Sasaki, E Niwa, S Honda… - Sustainable Materials and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The production of lithium-ion batteries consumes large quantities of lithium resources, the
demand for which will significantly increase with the growing popularity of electric vehicles …

A process for fabrication of Li2TiO3 ceramic pebbles with high mechanical properties via non-hydrolytic sol-gel method

G Tan, X Hu, S Wang, X Yang, Y Li, Z Yang… - Ceramics …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, the single-phase Li 2 TiO 3 powder was successfully synthesized via non-
hydrolytic sol-gel method (NHSG) using anhydrous lithium acetate (LiOAc) as lithium source …

Accurate and uniform fabrication of Li2TiO3 pebbles with high properties based on Stereolithography technology

L Cai, X Hu, G Tan, G Li, Y Zhang - Journal of the European Ceramic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Li 2 TiO 3 is a vital candidate breeder to solve tritium self-consistency of fusion reaction. In
this study, Digital Light Processing (DLP) based on Stereolithography technology was used …

Experimental investigation of heat transfer in gas–solid packed fluidized bed

D Mandal, D Sathiyamoorthy, M Vinjamur - Powder technology, 2013 - Elsevier
Packed fluidization is a novel technique, in which small particles are allowed to fluidize in
the interstices of relatively large and stationary packing to enhance heat transfer rates of a …

A novel process for fully automatic mass-production of Li2TiO3 ceramic pebbles with uniform structure and size

X Hu, G Tan, L Cai, S Song, W Wu, B Feng, Z Qin… - Ceramics …, 2022 - Elsevier
As an excellent promising tritium breeding material, Li 2 TiO 3 ceramic pebbles will be
required in large quantities in the future. For this reason, a fully automatic pneumatic eject …