Dr. Alastair Baker Experimental Officer for the MULTIform facility, will present on its origins, its capability and the story of its construction. MULTIform is part of the UK's National Nuclear User Facility and is a research facility based at the University of Leeds.

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Location: 3A.016 Engineering A and Online

Abstract

MULTIform

MULTIform is a research facility based in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds specialising in experimental investigation and providing state of the art equipment for the study of multiphase flows in water/acidic systems and high temperature molten salt systems; at a scale that is representative of a real system. It consists of three components:

A pilot scale rig, based on water/acid [pressure (=<5atm), temperature (=<100oC)].
A pilot scale rig, based on molten chloride [pressure (=<5atm), temperature (=<550oC)],
A bank of high precision, state of art, instruments for measuring a wide range of fluid flow properties that can be employed in a water and/or a molten chloride system.

Both rigs can be reconfigured to include specialist instrumentation for fluid flow measurements and have the capability to include bespoke equipment for development.

MULTIform is part of the UK’s National Nuclear User Facility , created by Government investment in the UK’s nuclear future, providing state-of-the-art experimental facilities for research and development in nuclear science and technology. NNUF was launched in March 2013 and new facilities have been created with funding from EPSRC through a UK Government award of £80m.

Read more about the MULTIform facility here.

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MULTIform- Multiphase Fluid Flow in Nuclear Systems | Dalton Seminar Series