LBE Corrosion & Ion Irradiation Synergistic Effect Instrument

May 28, 2025

The LBE Corrosion & Ion Irradiation Synergistic Effect Instrument (SFC-T2) installed on the Sector Focusing Cyclotron (SFC) of the Heavy Ion Research Facility of Lanzhou (HIRFL), which consists of the LBE Corrosion & Ion Irradiation Synergistic Effect Instrument and the In-beam Creep Test Apparatus. It can supply a wide range of temperature, stress, creep and LBE medium environment simultaneously for scientific research of advanced nuclear materials under ion irradiation.

The parameters of ion-beam supplied by SFC-T2 show in below:

 ion: p-U

 ion energy range: 0.08~8.5MeV/u

 ion energy divergence: ≤1×10-3

 continuous wave beam current:0.1~15 eμA

 with X-Y directions beam electromagnetic scanning system

 with a ion energy degrader system

The parameters of SFC-T2 instrument show in below:

 vacuum: ≤ 1×10-4 Pa

 medium: liquid metal such as PbBi, LiPb, Ga and water, water vapour, supercritical water

 medium temperature: 200~600℃

 velocity of medium flow: 0~2.0 m/s

 irradiation area: 15×15 mm2

The parameters of In-beam Creep Test Apparatus show in below:

 vacuum: ≤ 1×10-5 Pa

 irradiation temperature: room temperature~1200℃, temperature stability:±2℃

 pull/push stress loading system: maximum load is 1000 N, loading accuracy is 0.1 N

 online displacement measurement system: the measurement accuracy is 2μm

 with multi-station rotary sample stage in room temperature irradiation chamber

 irradiation area: 15×15 mm2