Technology Licensing Opportunity Triple Bubbler System Bubbler Type Instrument To Measure Density Surface Tension And Depth Of Stagnant Or Minimal Motion Fluid All Simultaneously Opportunity Idaho National Laboratory Inl Managed And Operated By Battelle Energy Alliance Llc Bea Is Offering The Opportunity To Enter Into A License And Or Collaborative Research Agreement To Commercialize The Triple Bubbler System Overview Electrochemical I E Pyroprocessing Technology Is Being Widely Studied Throughout The World As A Potential Alternative To Aqueous Reprocessing Of Spent Nuclear Fuel Snf Central To This Process Is The Electrorefiner Er In Which The Useful Uranium In The Snf Is Electrochemically Transported Through A Molten Salt Electrolyte To A Cathode For Later Recovery As Part Of This Process Uranium Plutonium And Other Actinides Accumulate In The Er Salt Over Time Determining The Actual Mass Of These Materials In The Er Presents A Significant Challenge Because The Density And Volume Of The Salt Within The Vessel Is Largely Unknown Inl Has Explored A Bubbler Type Instrument To Measure Down To The Top Surface Of The Salt Within 1 1 The Triple Bubbler Sensor Is Capable Of Determining The Density Surface Tension And Depth Of A Fluid In Near Real Time And Has Been Tested In Aqueous Fluids These Experiments Have Shown Accuracies On The Order Of 1 At 16 Cm Depth Accuracies Are Dependent On Fluid Depth Fluid Density And Pressure Transducer Selection Inl S Triple Bubbler System Simultaneously Measures Density Surface Tension And Depth Of A Stagnant Or Minimal Motion Fluid In A Vessel Using A Maximum Bubble Pressure Technique In Near Real Time The Sensor Consists Of Four Sensing Probes Placed Into A Vessel Where The First Probe Monitors The Atmosphere Above The Fluid Level And The Other Three Probes Are Submerged In The Fluid Three Differential Pressure Transducers Reference The Atmospheric Prove And Individually Monitor Each Fluid Probe Three Separate Mass Flow Controllers Are Utilized To Meter An Inert Gas Into The Three Fluid Sensing Probes At The Desired Flowrate Measurements For Density Surface Tension And Depth Were Determined By Monitoring The Maximum Pressure Signals From The Three Sensing Probes During Slow Gas Application Benefits Simultaneously Measure Density Surface Tension And Depth In Near Real Time Accuracies On The Order Of 1 For 16 Cm Depth Not Obscured By Foam Floating On Surface Or Misty Atmosphere In Tank Applications Molten Salt Electrolysis Mse Molten Salt Batteries Molten Metal Batteries Smelting Of Molten Metals Molten Salt Thermal Storage Vessels General Industry Applications Energy Mining Mineral Processing Waste Recycling Development Status Trl 3 Proof Of Concept Is Being Completed Ip Status Provisional Patent Application No 62 990 712 Triple Bubbler System Fast Bubbling Approach And Related Methods Bea Docket No Ba 1036 Inl Is Seeking To License The Above Intellectual Property To A Company With A Demonstrated Ability To Bring Such Inventions To The Market Exclusive Rights In Defined Fields Of Use May Be Available Please Visit Technology Deployment S Website At Https Inl Gov Inl Initiatives Technology Deployment For More Information On Working With Inl And The Industrial Partnering And Technology Transfer Process
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