Advanced Manufacturing of Printed Melt Wire Chips for Cheap, Compact Passive In-Pile Temperature Sensors
Abstract
Melt wires are a passive sensor used to determine peak temperatures during a test. Traditional melt wires are commonly used in test reactor experiments such as in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). However, the conditions within a reactor present significant challenges towards test design due to space limitations and the harsh environment. For example, some test capsules have only a couple millimeters in diameter available for instrumentation, which is too small to accommodate a traditional melt wire package, and they are ultimately filled to capacity when they are immersed in molten metal. To enable instrumentation for space limited applications, peak temperature sensing capabilities paired with additive manufacturing options have been utilized to develop printed melt wires for peak irradiation temperature detection. Here, we report on the fabrication of miniaturized melt wire chips with a melting temperature ~960 °C with printed silver nanoparticle ink. This study will advance the development of unique temperature sensors capable of sensing user specified temperature ranges within the harsh environment of irradiation testing.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1700508
- Report Number(s):
- INL/JOU-20-59095-Rev000
Journal ID: ISSN 1047-4838; TRN: US2204546
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- JOM. Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: N/A; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1047-4838
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 - INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Advanced manufacturing; Melt-wire; Nuclear sensor; Printed sensor; Aerosol jet printing
Citation Formats
McMurtrey, Michael D., Fujimoto, Kiyo T., and Mondal, Kunal. Advanced Manufacturing of Printed Melt Wire Chips for Cheap, Compact Passive In-Pile Temperature Sensors. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1007/s11837-020-04426-8.
McMurtrey, Michael D., Fujimoto, Kiyo T., & Mondal, Kunal. Advanced Manufacturing of Printed Melt Wire Chips for Cheap, Compact Passive In-Pile Temperature Sensors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-020-04426-8
McMurtrey, Michael D., Fujimoto, Kiyo T., and Mondal, Kunal. Wed .
"Advanced Manufacturing of Printed Melt Wire Chips for Cheap, Compact Passive In-Pile Temperature Sensors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-020-04426-8. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1700508.
@article{osti_1700508,
title = {Advanced Manufacturing of Printed Melt Wire Chips for Cheap, Compact Passive In-Pile Temperature Sensors},
author = {McMurtrey, Michael D. and Fujimoto, Kiyo T. and Mondal, Kunal},
abstractNote = {Melt wires are a passive sensor used to determine peak temperatures during a test. Traditional melt wires are commonly used in test reactor experiments such as in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). However, the conditions within a reactor present significant challenges towards test design due to space limitations and the harsh environment. For example, some test capsules have only a couple millimeters in diameter available for instrumentation, which is too small to accommodate a traditional melt wire package, and they are ultimately filled to capacity when they are immersed in molten metal. To enable instrumentation for space limited applications, peak temperature sensing capabilities paired with additive manufacturing options have been utilized to develop printed melt wires for peak irradiation temperature detection. Here, we report on the fabrication of miniaturized melt wire chips with a melting temperature ~960 °C with printed silver nanoparticle ink. This study will advance the development of unique temperature sensors capable of sensing user specified temperature ranges within the harsh environment of irradiation testing.},
doi = {10.1007/s11837-020-04426-8},
journal = {JOM. Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society},
number = 12,
volume = N/A,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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