Articles techniques et présentations

Pyrochemical process based on molten salt electrorefining is ideally suited for reprocessing spent metallic fuels from Fast Breeder Reactors. In this work, a heat transfer analysis of the Electrorefiner cell was conducted to develop a basic tool for designing of the engineering–scale Electrorefiner. The focus of this work is to find out steady state temperature profiles of cover gas and molten salt, and top flange temperature of Electrorefiner. COMSOL was used for this purpose. The simulation model was prepared, and the temperature profiles of the cover gas and the molten salt were compared with those in the Engineering scale Electrorefiner cell.