Development of a thermodynamic database for a new fuel alloy design
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
The scope of the FY17 milestone involved the development of a thermodynamic database for the Mo-Ti-Zr ternary system to support the design of new pseudo-binary actinide-M fuel alloy, where M is a ternary metallic additive composed of Mo, Ti and Zr. Optimization of thermodynamic parameters for the three binary subsystems, Mo-Zr, Mo-Ti and Zr-Ti, has been performed using the CALPHAD (CALculation of PHAse Diagrams) approach with inputs from both experiments gathered from the literature and density functional theory (DFT) total energy calculations performed in this work. Using the present database, the stability range of the bcc phase in the Mo-Ti-Zr ternary system is predicted and the results are in very good agreement with available experimental data at 600°C and 750°C. The present work can directly contribute to the future development of a multicomponent thermodynamic database for the quaternary U-Mo-Ti-Zr system.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1472116
- Report Number(s):
- INL/EXT-17-43324-Rev000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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