Monitoring dry-cask storage using thermoelectric powered wireless sensors

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 747-752

  Carstens, Thomas ^a   Corradini, Michael ^a   Blanchard, James ^a   Ma, Zhenqiang ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry cask storage; thermoelectric; wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

DESIGN LIFE; ENGINEERING EQUATION SOLVERS; LINEAR TECHNOLOGIES; SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; TRANSMISSION POWER LEVELS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

DC-DC CONVERTERS; FUEL STORAGE; INSTRUMENTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SENSORS; SERVICE LIFE; SPENT FUELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSCEIVERS;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84882289860     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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