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周光明: Overview of the design and R&D activities of the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed breeding blanket in Europe

时间:2023-06-14来源:材料科学与工程学院

报告时间:2023年6月15日(星期四)9:00-10:00

报告地点:材料科学与工程学院601会议室

:周光明 首席工程师

工作单位:德国卡尔斯鲁厄工业大学(KIT)

举办单位:材料科学与工程学院

报告简介

In the Concept Design Phase (2021-2027) of the European DEMO program, key issues should be addressed to reach a consolidated Concept Design of EU-DEMO. To tackle the low reliability issue of the breeding blanket, the HCPB Team proposed a new HCPB concept in 2021. This concept proposes to equalize the pressure of the purge gas with that of the coolant to eliminate welds that are designed for preventing in-box loss of coolant. However, the blanket box will have to bear the 8 MPa pressure even under normal conditions. Consequently, the thickness of the critical structures (especially the First Wall) of the HCPB will have to be increased, which will impact the tritium breeding ratio. To have a viable design, the basic nuclear, thermal hydraulic, and structural requirements must be met. Additionally, accompanying Research and Development (R&D) activities should be conducted to maturate the HCPB BB concept.

报告人简介

Dr. Guangming Zhou works as a scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany since 2017. Since 2021, he is the Lead Engineer for the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) Breeding Blanket System within the European EUROfusion DEMO Breeding Blanket Project.

He is leading a team of 25 PPY manpower across Europe with an annual budget of about 4.4 million euros for the development of HCPB Breeding Blanket across 9 European research organizations. He leads the design and R&D activities.

He obtained his PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2016. He authored 38 SCI-indexed journal articles and received 568 citations based on Web of Science database.

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