Liquid Metal Corrosion
Fundamental Theory and Applications

Looks at the corrosion mechanics, process, behaviors and methods for calculating rates of liquid metals in nuclear applications

Jinsuo Zhang (Author)

9780323988223, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 8 June 2023

276 pages, 100 illustrations (30 in full color)
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.45 kg

Liquid Metal Corrosion: Fundamental Theory and Applications is designed to help scientists, engineers and students working on liquid metal (sodium, lead, lead-bismuth) to fundamentally understand liquid metal corrosion. Coverage includes a discussion of corrosion mechanisms, fundamental corrosion processes, and corrosion products’ behaviors as well as methods on how to calculate corrosion rates. The book concludes with models designed to predict the corrosion/precipitation distribution in a primary corrosion loop. This book will be a useful resource for researchers in their efforts to determine appropriate materials selection and reactor design.

1. Introduction on liquid metal corrosion
2. Metal dissolution
3. Liquid metal corrosion-general theories
4. Corrosion in isothermal systems
5. Flow induced corrosion in non-isothermal systems
6. Diffusion in structural materials
7. Interfacial interactions
8. Oxygen behaviours and control
9. Oxide growth kinetics and stability in liquid metal
10. Oxidation-erosion interaction

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]