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Thwe Thwe, A.; Kadowaki, Satoshi; Nagaishi, Ryuji
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(6), p.731 - 742, 2023/06
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Nuclear Science & Technology)In this study, we performed numerical calculations of unsteady reaction flow considering detailed chemical reactions, investigated the unstable behavior of hydrogen-air dilute premixed flame due to intrinsic instability, and clarified the effects of unburned gas temperature and pressure. I made it. The unstable behavior of the flame in a wide space was simulated, and the burning rate of the cellular flame was obtained. Then, the effects of heat loss and flame scale on flame unstable behavior were investigated. The burning velocity of a planar flame increases as the unburned-gas temperature increases and it decreases as the unburned-gas pressure and heat loss increase. The normalized burning velocity increases when the pressure increases and heat loss becomes large, and it decreases when the temperature increases. This is because the high unburned-gas pressure and heat loss promote the unstable behavior and instability of flame.
, Zr, and stainless-steelKirishima, Akira*; Akiyama, Daisuke*; Kumagai, Yuta; Kusaka, Ryoji; Nakada, Masami; Watanabe, Masayuki; Sasaki, Takayuki*; Sato, Nobuaki*
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 567, p.153842_1 - 153842_15, 2022/08
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：76.47(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)To understand the chemical structure and stability of nuclear fuel debris consisting of UO, Zr, and Stainless Steel (SUS) generated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in Japan in 2011, simulated debris of the UO-SUS-Zr system and other fundamental component systems were synthesized and characterized. The simulated debris were synthesized by heat treatment for 1 to 12 h at 1600
C, in inert (Ar) or oxidative (Ar + 2% O) atmospheres. 
Np and 
Am tracers were doped for the leaching tests of these elements and U from the simulated debris. The characterization of the simulated debris was conducted by XRD, SEM-EDX, Raman spectroscopy, and M
ssbauer spectroscopy, which provided the major uranium phase of the UO -SUS-Zr debris was the solid solution of U
O (s.s.) with Zr(IV) and Fe(II) regardless of the treatment atmosphere. The long-term immersion test of the simulated debris in pure water and that in seawater revealed the macro scale crystal structure of the simulated debris was chemically very stable in the wet condition for a year or more. Furthermore, the leaching test results showed that the actinide leaching ratios of U, Np, Am from the UO-SUS-Zr debris were very limited and less than 0.08 % for all the experiments in this study.
Chen, J.; Asano, Masaharu; Yamaki, Tetsuya; Yoshida, Masaru
Journal of Materials Science, 41(4), p.1289 - 1292, 2006/02
Times Cited Count：22 Percentile：58.32(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The MeSt/tBuSt/DVB-grafted polymer electrolyte membrane showed a high performance for the fuel cell applications. The tBuSt contributed the high chemical stability while the MeSt contributed the high conductivity to the resulted membrane. The DVB crosslinker in the membrane further improved the chemical stability. The new polymer electrolyte membrane with a degree of grafting of 36% showed proton conductivity as high as the Gore-Select membrane, and the durability time was about 3 times longer than that of the traditional styrene/DVB-grafted one. Therefore, the MeSt/tBuSt/DVB-grafted polymer electrolyte membrane was more possible to be used for the fuel cells.
Chen, J.; Asano, Masaharu; Yamaki, Tetsuya; Yoshida, Masaru
Journal of Membrane Science, 269(1-2), p.194 - 204, 2006/02
Times Cited Count：140 Percentile：96.02(Engineering, Chemical)To develop a highly chemically stable polymer electrolyte membrane for application in a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), four styrene derivative monomers, m,p-methylstyrene (MeSt), p-tert-butylstyrene (tBuSt), divinylbenzene (DVB) and bis(p,p-vinyl phenyl) ethane (BVPE) were graft copolymerized into poly(ethylene-co-tetrafluoroethylene) (ETFE) films followed by sulfonation and hydrolysis. The latter two monomers were used as crosslinkers. The graft copolymerization was carried out by the 
-ray preirradiation method. The influence of the preirradiation dose and the grafting kinetics were investigated in detail. Sulfonation of the grafted ETFE films was performed in a chlorosulfonic acid solution, by which the sulfonation ratio reached about 90%. The newly obtained membrane possesses significantly higher chemical stability than the traditional styrene/DVB-grafted membrane and six times lower methanol permeability compared to the Nafion 112 membrane. Therefore, this study reveals the possibility of the developed inexpensive four monomers-grafted membranes, which could provide an attractive alternative as a substitute for the expensive Nafion membranes for DMFC applications.
