Comparison of corrosion behavior of bare and hot-dip coated EUROFER steel in flowing Pb–17Li

Corrosion experiment for CLAM and SS316L in liquid LiPb loop of China

“…As demonstrated (Antipenkov et al, 1991;Barbier, 1997;Barbier et al, 2002;Benamati et al, 2002;Borgstedt et al, 1988;Broc et al, 1986;Sannier et al, 1991;TAS et al, 1986;Tortorelli et al, 1986), researches on LiPb experimental loop were carried out in Europe, America and Japan since 1980s. However, the loops were all shutdown for their life limit except PICOLO LiPb loop of Germany, as demonstrated (Konys et al, 2004(Konys et al, , 2007a. In China, there was no research on LiPb loop and related experiments several years ago.…”

Corrosion behavior of CLAM steel in static and flowing LiPb at 480°C and 550°C

“…in liquid flowing LiPb has been investigated [11][12][13][14], and the corrosion results of Eurofer 97 steel showed that there is a dramatic increase in corrosion rate and suffered more serious corrosion attack from 480 • C to 550 • C in flowing LiPb [14]. Although the CLAM steel showed good compatibility with liquid LiPb at 480 • C with the flowing velocity of 0.08 m/s [15], should be investigated that the corrosion behavior of CLAM steel in static and flowing LiPb with higher flowing velocity at 480 • C and 550 • C in order to reveal the corrosion mechanism of CLAM steel in liquid LiPb.…”

Corrosion behavior of CLAM steel weldment in flowing liquid Pb-17Li at 480 °C

“…Corrosion test of some RAFMs in liquid PbLi have been performed, results show that the typical steel elements were dissolved in the test [3][4][5]. The research of corrosion resistance of RAFM steels in liquid LiPb also shows that it varied with corrosion conditions, due to the existence of passivation layer, the incubation period of tempering RAFM steel appear in the initial stage of corrosion; As the flow velocity of liquid LiPb increases and corrosion temperature rises, corrosion amount increases; There is not any penetration of LiPb [3,4] for long time exposure. In China, many efforts have been made to design LiPb blanket and investigate the corrosion behaviors of tempering CLAM in liquid LiPb [6,7].…”