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DOE issues final RFQ for WIPP clean energy initiative
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for qualifications for interested parties and prospective offerors looking to enter into a realty agreement for carbon-pollution-free electricity (CFE) projects at the department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in southeastern New Mexico.
H. Zhou, Y. Hirooka, N. Ashikawa, T. Muroga, A. Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 361-363
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16955
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Hydrogen plasma-driven permeation (PDP) experiments have been conducted, using a steady state linear plasma device for the membranes made of reduced activation ferritic steel (F82H) and stainless steel (SUS304). The steady state PDP ratios have been measured to be of the orders of 10-3 and 10-4 at ~220 °C for 1 mm thick F82H and SUS304 membranes, respectively. For F82H, the steady state PDP flux ratio has been found to be inversely proportional to membrane thickness at ~220 °C, indicating that permeation is diffusion-limited. From the temperature dependent PDP data for F82H an activation energy has been evaluated to be ~0.5 eV.