Quality Ranking of Unary Fluoride Salt Property Data in MSTDB-TP
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Molten salt reactor developers rely on thermal property data to design, license and operate the reactors they are developing. The Molten Salt Thermal Database-Thermophysical Properties (MSTDB-TP) is being developed under the DOE Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program and managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The MSTDB-TP is intended to serve as a single source of measured thermophysical property values for a wide variety of molten salt systems available to researchers, molten salt reactor developers, and regulators. These properties include melting and boiling points, heat capacity, density, viscosity and thermal diffusivity and conductivity. Published measurements of molten salt properties are lacking for many salts and the data that are available are often inconsistent. This creates a challenge for MSR developers in determining which property values to select when designing their reactors. The MSDTDB-TP collects all available property data and down-selects to preferred data sets or correlations. It is the purpose of this work to apply a recently developed ranking system that indicates the quality of property values listed in the database to inform decisions about how to use the available data. Quality assessments and rankings are being applied to data in MSTDB-TP to provide an indication of the quality of the data available. A previous report detailed the ranking system that was followed.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 2278997
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/CFCT--23/48; 186932
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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