Physical properties of heavy liquid-metal coolants in a wide temperature range

P. Popel; S. Stankus; A. Mozgovoy; R. Khairulin; M. Pokrasin; D. Yagodin; N. Konstantinova; A. Borisenko; M. Guzachev

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20111501014

EPJ

Physical properties of heavy liquid-metal coolants in a wide temperature range

P. Popel¹, S. Stankus², A. Mozgovoy³, R. Khairulin², M. Pokrasin⁴, D. Yagodin¹, N. Konstantinova¹, A. Borisenko¹ and M. Guzachev¹

¹ Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural State Pedagogical University, 26 Cosmonavtov ave., Ekaterinburg, 620219, Russia,
e-mail: pspopel@mail.ru
² Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Lavrent’ev ave., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia,
e-mail: stankus@itp.nsc.ru
³ Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 13/2 Izhorskaya st., Moscow, 125412, Russia,
email: mozgovoy@ihed.ras.ru
⁴ Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117334 Russia.

Abstract

The pulse-phase method, the gamma-attenuation method and the method of dumping oscillation of a crucible with a melt were used for measuring the velocity of sound, the density and the kinematic viscosity of a set of liquid-metal coolants for perspective nuclear reactors. There are liquid gallium, indium, tin, lead, bismuth and lead-bismuth eutectic alloy among the melts investigated. The accuracy of the measurements was as high as 0.3%, 0.2 to 0.4% and 1.5% for the ultrasound velocity, the density and the viscosity, correspondingly.