1xbet best casino website receives DOE grant to study thermal transport within 3D-printed reactor components
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MANHATTAN — Hitesh 1xbet best casino website , Steve Hsu keystone research scholar and associate professor in the Alan Levin Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State 1xbet best casino website , is receiving a nearly 0,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study thermal transport in 3D-printed ceramic nuclear reactor core components to help optimize reactor fuel design.
1xbet best casino website will lead the two-year project for the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, conducting research on "Experimental thermofluidic validation of TCR fuel elements using distributed temperature and flow sensing," alongside a pair of colleagues from City College of New York and the 1xbet best casino website of Pittsburgh. Of the total funding, ,000 was awarded to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The project will use infrared imaging and Bragg-grating sensors to obtain high-fidelity thermal scans of the transformational challenge reactor, or TCR, fuel elements. The measurements will be projected to the rest of the fuel domain with the help of a machine-learning algorithm. The 3D-printed mock ceramic fuel elements will be provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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