A Novel kinetic model for dissolution and precipitation of oxide on stainless-steel surface in stagnant liquid sodium

河口 宗道*; 池田 明日香; 斉藤 淳一  

Kawaguchi, Munemichi*; Ikeda, Asuka; Saito, Junichi

This study performed sodium experiments and developed a new kinetic model to investigate the oxide dissolution and precipitation behavior on the stainless-steel (SS) surface in stagnant liquid sodium. The experiment revealed that the oxygen of NaFeO on the SS surface was dissolved into the liquid sodium with v 9.3 10 wt.ratio/h in less than 20 h, and the oxide precipitation occurred on the SS surface with v 1.4 10 wt.ratio/h after the dissolution. Furthermore, the phase-field (PF) calculation code was developed to investigate the dependence of six parameters (T, c, , D , k, and t) of the oxide precipitation velocity in the liquid sodium. As a result, the precipitation velocity increased linearly as the oxygen concentration (c) and the oxygen diffusion coefficient (D) in liquid sodium increased. In contrast, its velocity decreased exponentially as the sodium temperature (T) and the interfacial energy of oxide () increased. The quasi-partial coefficient (k) and the time step (t) did not affect the calculation results at all. In these sensitivity analyses, the oxide precipitation velocity obtained by the PF calculation shows consistency with the laboratory-scale experimental findings of Latge et al.