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Task force charts growing interest in civilian maritime nuclear applications
Readers of Nuclear News will have heard of historical applications of civilian maritime nuclear power, like the merchant ship NS Savannah and the USS Sturgis floating power plant. With a few exceptions there has been little action in this area for over 50 years, and there are plenty of reasons and opinions as to why, but over the last few years the dramatic increase in interest from the maritime industry and its stakeholders has been undeniable.
Masahiro Tanaka, Sadatsugu Takayama, Saburo Sano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | April 2015 | Pages 604-607
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T90
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Microwave irradiation was conducted for the effective regeneration process of a synthetic honeycomb type 5A zeolite adsorbent in a single-mode microwave cavity at 2.46 GHz. To investigate the effect of electromagnetic fields, inductive heating by a magnetic field was applied to synthetic zeolite containing water. Because the microwave energy absorbed in the sample was less than 15 W, the zeolite sample was only heated to a temperature of 71 °C. Water desorption was observed based on the increased temperature of the zeolite sample and the thermogravimetric curve that indicated a single step phenomenon. As a result, the regeneration process of zeolite was not complete over a period of 6000 s. A comparison of dielectric heating by an electric field with inductive heating by a magnetic field showed that the regeneration process by microwave irradiation was particularly beneficial in dielectric heating.