Mechanical design and first experimental results of an upgraded technical PERMCAT reactor for tritium recovery in the fuel cycle of a fusion machine

Development of a technical scale PERMCAT reactor for processing of highly tritiated water

“…The swamping gas is enriched with tritium and taken out of the PERMCAT through capillaries while the impurities are decontaminated. This process is abundantly described in several previous publications [10,14,15]. Fig.…”

Characterisation of a multitube PERMCAT reactor in view of a technical facility for highly tritiated water processing at the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe

“…As previously reported, a new technical scale, multi tube, single bed PERMCAT was designed, manufactured and commissioned at TLK [10]. A further characterising of the new PERMCAT was necessary in order to develop an experimental plant for operation with HTW using a PERMCAT reactor.…”

“…1 shows a schematic of a finger type Pd/Ag-membrane PERMCAT, where the concentration profile is shown in different shades of gray. Several finger type PERMCAT modules are used in parallel, to reach the desired capacity for a technical scale PERMCAT [10,11,4]. Such arrangement is used for the new technical scale PERMCAT.…”

Preliminary results from a detritiation facility dedicated to soft housekeeping waste

“…2 [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. In this way, it is possible to recover tritium under HT form which can be further reused in the fusion fuel cycle.…”