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Segawa, Tomoomi; Fukasawa, Tomonori*; Huang, A.-N.*; Yamada, Yoshikazu; Suzuki, Masahiro; Fukui, Kunihiro*
Chemical Engineering Science, 153, p.108 - 116, 2016/10
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：26.31(Engineering, Chemical)The influence of the heating method and rate on the morphology of CuO powders synthesized from Cu(NO
)
3HO aqueous solutions by denitration was investigated. The median diameter of the obtained powder was found to decrease as the heating rate increased, independent of the heating method. The microwave heating method remarkably reduced the particle size and enhanced the irregularity and disorder of the shape and surface of the particles, which were found to be more widely distributed. In contrast, the microwave hybrid heating method yielded the most spherical particles with the smoothest surface. It was also found that this heating method sharpened the particle size distribution and had higher energy efficiency than the MW method. Numerical simulations also indicated a difference in the energy efficiency between these two methods. The simulations also revealed that the hybrid method could heat the whole reactor more uniformly with a lower microwave output.
Segawa, Tomoomi; Kawaguchi, Koichi; Ishii, Katsunori; Tamaru, Ayaka*; Yamada, Masaaki*; Fukasawa, Tomonori*; Ishigami, Toru*; Fukui, Kunihiro*
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The microwave heating method is used in the reprocessing process of spent fuels. To improve the powder quality in fuel fabrication for the fast reactor, research and development of a microwave hybrid heating method, which combines microwave heating with external heating, is advanced. However, the installation of heating equipment in the cavity may cause damage to the heating equipment due to electrical discharge or induced current under microwave irradiation. To evaluate the effect of the CNT content of the alumina composite on the microwave heating characteristics in detail, the temperature during microwave irradiation and the apparent dielectric loss were measured. As a result of this study, it was found that the microwave heating property can be controlled by adjusting the CNT content, and the prospect that CNT-containing alumina is effective as microwave absorbing heating material was obtained.
Tamaru, Ayaka*; Nagakawa, Genta*; Segawa, Tomoomi; Fukasawa, Tomonori*; Ishigami, Toru*; Fukui, Kunihiro*
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This study aims to investigate the effect of hybrid heating on the denitration reaction of a nickel nitrate aqueous solution to evaluate the feasibility of hybrid heating method with an alumina jacket containing carbon nanotube (CNT) as a microwave heating medium. When an alumina jacket without CNT was used, the temperature decreased and the denitration reaction stopped due to the formation of an intermediate product Ni(NO)
(OH)
with low dielectric loss. Whereas, when an alumina jacket containing 0.2 mass% CNT was used, the denitration reaction was completed and nickel oxide particles were obtained. It is presumed that the denitration reaction proceeds by heat conduction from the CNT-containing alumina jacket because the jacket is selectively heated by microwaves more than the Ni(NO)(OH). It is clarified that hybrid heating can be realized by a CNT-containing alumina jacket.
