Abstract
Low pressure superheated H2-steam system has been extensively used in the past years to accelerate the oxidation kinetics while keeping the conditions representative to PWR primary water. One of the most important requirements of this environment is that needs to replicate the Ni/NiO transition. However, despite several studies have been carried out by different research groups in H2-steam environment, there is still some level of uncertainty over the thermodynamic of the oxidation process. In this study, the Ni/NiO transition in hydrogenated steam was investigated via electrochemical potential measurements using a Ni/NiO solid state reference electrode. Furthermore, solution annealed Alloy 600 coupons were exposed to H2-steam at 480 ℃ in order to examine the effect of oxidizing conditions with respect to the Ni/NiO transition on the preferential intergranular oxidation. The effect of the redox potential on the preferential intergranular oxidation is discussed in the context of the precursor stages of stress corrosion cracking for Alloy 600.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Manchester Metallurgical Society and the EPSRC through the NNUMAN programme (EP/JO21172/1) for the financial support and Dr. Peter Andresen for donating the Cu/Cu2O solid state reference electrode that was initially used for preliminary electrochemical experiments.
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Volpe, L., Bertali, G., Curioni, M., Burke, M.G., Scenini, F. (2019). Electrochemical and Microstructural Characterization of Alloy 600 in Low Pressure H2-Steam. In: Jackson, J., Paraventi, D., Wright, M. (eds) Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems – Water Reactors. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04639-2_26
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