High Temperature Irradiation Resistant Thermocouples

TECHNOLOGY/LICENSING OPPORTUNITY

High Temperature Irradiation Resistant Thermocouples

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 High Temperature Irradiation Resistant Thermocouples technology.

Description:    Real-time temperature measurement is key to validation of irradiations. Specialized low-drift thermocouples for irradiation test, High Temperature Irradiation Resistant Thermocouples (HTIR-TCs) are being developed and commercialized as a Baseline Instrumentation Capability. HTIR-TCs are an innovative new sensor for a wide spectrum of industries.

Applications: These thermocouples can be used in existing reactor fleet and advanced reactor pipeline and fuel cycles.

Advantages: These thermocouples bring together the high temperature of the Type B thermocouple with the radiation tolerance of Type N and K. This technology fills the technology gap of temperature measurements during irradiations between 1100°C and 1700°C. They show improvement in lifetime and uncertainty of temperature measurements for irradiations.

IP Status: US Patent Application No. 16/690,630, “High-Temperature, Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouple, Coaxial Thermocouple, and Related Methods,” BEA Docket No. BA-1086

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.

Companies interested in learning more about this licensing opportunity should contact Kala Majeti at suryakala.majeti@inl.gov.