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A Mass-Flow-Calorimetry System for Scaled-up Experiments on Anomalous Heat Evolution at Elevated Temperatures
A. Kitamura*1,2, A. Takahashi1,3, R. Seto1, Y. Fujita1, A. Taniike2, Y. Furuyama2 Inc., Tokyo 1000011, Japan 2 Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe 6580022, Japan, 3 Osaka University, Suita 5650871, Japan *[email protected]
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Aim and method A. Takahashis poster summarizes in this Conference a lot of interesting, even astonishing, features during the D(H)loading into the nanocomposite samples to speculate heat releasing mechanisms. burst-like heat release with anomalously high values of differential heat of sorption, 600 eV/atom-H, large values of integrated heat reaching ca. 800 eV/atom-Ni from a CNZ sample absorbing H, abrupt desorption with 50 - 80 eV/atom-Ni absorbed almost exclusively in the first 573-K run for each sample. To confirm the interesting phenomena with improved signalto-noise ratio, we have fabricated a reaction chamber with a ten-times-larger volume with a mass flow calorimetry using an oil coolant.
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New scaled-up absorption system with oil-mass-flow calorimetry
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Reaction chamber of the C1 system
Electrical and thermal feed-throughs
Top flange for outer chamber
Tentative supporter for maintenance
Coolant pipe
Upper radiation shield Reaction chamber
Sheaths of RTDs
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C1 system for upgraded absorption experiments
Vacuum gauge Pressure gauge
SuperNeedle
Room temp. is controlled to 22-270.1C
BT400 Coolant pipe Going in and out to a chiller
C1 chamber
Neutron counter Constanttemp. water bath -ray counter
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C1 system for upgraded absorption experiments
Room temp. is controlled to 22-270.1C
C1 chamber
Neutron counter
Constanttemp. water bath
NI Measurement and Automation Explorer system
-ray counter
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C1 system for upgraded absorption experiments
Constant-flowrate pump
Squeezing rotors
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Heat transfer medium; BarrelTherm 400 (Matsumura Oil Co., Ltd.)
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Calibration using H-filled Al2O3 powder serves as a control run.
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Calibration / control run using Al2O3 powder
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TC2 W h W h F (W) (W) (ccm) 195 195 124 -71 231 107 T (C)
W / T (W/deg.C) (min)
heat T av (kg/m3) C (J/gK) (=6.93e-1*T (=3.4e-3*T recovery (deg. C) +1.06e3) +1.50) rate
heating 20 2.20E+02 8.87E-01 28.4 1.38E+02 1.16E+03 1.97E+00 8.55E-01 phase cooling 20 -7.02E+01 1.01E+00 30.8 2.12E+02 1.21E+03 2.22E+00 8.84E-01 phase heating 20 1.04E+02 1.02E+00 30.2 2.30E+02 1.22E+03 2.28E+00 9.07E-01 phase average 9.74E-01 2.98E+01 8.82E-01 st.dev. 7.57E-02 1.24E+00 2.61E-02
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Results of calibration using Al2O3 powder
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Preliminary runs using silica-included CNS/Al2O3 sample
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Molar ratio Pd (Cu) Silica-included Pd; PSII Silica-included PdNi; PNS Silica-included CuNi; CNS (Filler) Al2O3 (60m) 0.054 (210nm) 0.011 (Cu) 0.0071 --Ni --0.062 0.030 Zr ------Si (Al) O Supplier
System Reference A1A2 [5],[6],[7] A1 A 2 0.927 1.92 Admatechs Co. Ltd. [6],[7] C1 Admatechs 0.321 0.64 Co. Ltd. Present work C1 (Al) 1.5 Showa As a filler 0.996 Denko K.K. and for calibration 0.946 1.95 Admatechs Co. Ltd.
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Preliminary H-run using CNS/Al2O3 powder
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Calibration of the oil-mass-flow calorimetry using a dummy Al2O3 powder: The coolant oil reached almost 300 deg. C at heater input of 231W. Long-term stability, or fluctuation in terms of standard deviation, is better than 0.5 deg. C. Conversion factor, dW/dT = (0.970.08) W/deg with an oil-flow rate of 20 cc/min. Heat recovery efficiency is (0.880.03) with heat removal time constant of (301.2) min.
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The first trial run with a 50g CNS sample (silicaincluded CuNi nano-compound containing 4g of Ni) mixed with 200g Al2O3: Both TC2 at the oil outlet and RTD's inside the reaction chamber show higher temperatures than for the blank sample, which implies a longlasting excess power of 20 W (i.e., 5 W/g-Ni). The assumed excess heat appears to be on the same order as that of the CNZ (CuNi/Zi2O3) sample yielding 2 W/g-Ni excess power [5,6,7]. Further measurements with more precise comparison are necessary to confirm the excess.
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Thank you for your attention.
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