Effect of dissolved oxygen on oxidation and hydrogen pick up behaviour-Zircaloy vs Zr-Nb alloys

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 985-994

  Kiran Kumar, M ^a   Aggarwal, Sachin ^b   Kain, Vivekanand ^a   Saario, Timo ^c   Bojinov, Martin ^d  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b PEC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METALLURGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONTENTS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN LEVELS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE; FREE OXYGEN; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HYDROGEN PICK UP; IN-SITU; LEVEL CHANGE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; OXIDATION BEHAVIOURS; PREFERENTIAL REACTION; RE-CIRCULATION LOOPS; SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE; WEIGHT GAIN; ZIRCALOY; ZIRCALOY-2; ZR-NB ALLOYS;

ALLOYS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BOILERS; CERIUM ALLOYS; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; OXIDATION; PRESSURE VESSELS; WATER CONTENT; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

EID: 77949269588     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.12.021     Document Type: Article

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