Status of Initial Assessment of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Graphite Grades for NGNP Appkications

Strizak, Joe P¹  Burchell, Timothy D¹  Windes, Will² 

[1] ORNL;Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

关键词: CARBON;    COKE;    FLEXURAL STRENGTH;    GRAPHITE;    MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;    ORIENTATION;    PETROLEUM PRODUCTS;    PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;    SPECIFICATIONS;    TESTING;    THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;    THERMAL EXPANSION graphite. mechanical properties;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1030608
RP-ID  :  ORNL/TM-2006/553
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1030608
Others  :  Other: AF3610300
Others  :  NEAF265
Others  :  TRN: US201201%%321

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Current candidate graphite grades for the core structures of NGNP include grades NBG-17, NBG-18, PCEA and IG-430. Both NBG-17 and NBG-18 are manufactured using pitch coke, and are vibrationally molded. These medium grain products are produced by SGL Carbon SAS (France). Tayo Tanso (Japan) produces IG-430 which is a petroleum coke, isostatically molded, nuclear grade graphite. And PCEA is a medium grain, extruded graphite produced by UCAR Carbon Co. (USA) from petroleum coke. An experimental program has been initiated to develop physical and mechanical properties data for these current candidate graphites. The results will be judged against the requirements for nuclear grade graphites set forth in ASTM standard D 7219-05 "Standard Specification for Isotropic and Near-isotropic Nuclear Graphites". Physical properties data including thermal conductivity and coefficient of thermal expansion, and mechanical properties data including tensile, compressive and flexural strengths will be obtained using the established test methods covered in D-7219 and ASTM C 781-02 "Standard Practice for Testing Graphite and Boronated Graphite Components for High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors". Various factors known to effect the properties of graphites will be investigated. These include specimen size, spatial location within a graphite billet, specimen orientation (ag and wg) within a billet, and billet-to-billet variations. The current status of the materials characterization program is reported herein. To date billets of the four graphite grades have been procured, and detailed cut up plans for obtaining the various specimens have been prepared. Particular attention has been given to the traceability of each specimen to its spatial location and orientation within a billet.