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MARCH 4, 2011

The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. The ZEBRA battery is an example of a molten salt battery.

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MAY 10, 2023

In collaboration with NE, DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office will provide funding and project oversight for the two hydrogen production–related projects that were selected: General Electric Global Research, Scaled Solid Oxide Co-Electrolysis for Low-Cost Syngas Synthesis from Nuclear Energy.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

million investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG), originally developed at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL). A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. Background.

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APRIL 9, 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). In the harbor, a transmission cable will be connected to the electric grid onshore.

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Hydrogen Molten Salt Power Powered 531

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MARCH 12, 2023

This installation will be based on a set composed of two small reactor units (400 MW th each) supplying a heat storage device, useful to best manage the variations in electrical power needed by industries. With electricity and heat, companies could capture CO 2 and produce steam, hydrogen, and synthetic fuels.

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Molten Salt Sodium Gas-Electric Conversion 221

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APRIL 21, 2022

These materials can be used in electric car batteries increasing the energy and power density, speeding up the charge rate and improving the lifetime significantly. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2. separation of products and collection.

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Molten Salt Carbon CO2 Poland 186

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MAY 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $27 million in funding for 9 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear Assets (GEMINA) program. Electric Power Research Institute: Build-to-Replace: A New Paradigm for Reducing Advanced Reactor O&M Costs - $999,464.

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Molten Salt Maintenance Massachusetts EPRI 307

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Los Alamos National Laboratory will develop a scalable, compact, high-temperature, heat pipe reactor (HPR) to provide heat and electricity to remote areas. Accelerated Materials Design for Molten Salt Technologies Using Innovative High-Throughput Methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $1,861,820.

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Molten Salt Wisconsin Massachusetts Low Cost 236

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MAY 16, 2023

GFP is proposing to construct and operate a 15 megawatt thermal (MWth) (approximately 5 MW electrical) MMR plant at the Chalk River campus that would serve as a model for future small modular reactor (SMR) deployments to support remote and industrial applications. The MMR has an operating life-span of 20 years.

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Molten Salt Climate Change Canada Grid 199

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JUNE 4, 2018

Nuclear power generates nearly 20% of US electricity, delivering reliable, low-emission baseload power to the grid. The low volume of new plant construction combined with expected retirements of existing plants is projected to reduce US nuclear electricity capacity by 20.8 GW by 2050.

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Molten Salt Power Powered Illinois 284

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APRIL 21, 2021

The majority of the GHG emissions come from the smelting process, which uses large amounts of electricity; more than half of its total emissions come indirectly from the electricity production. However, nearly 20% of the emissions are from the production and degradation of the carbon anodes used during smelting.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

The valuable mineral for electric vehicle (EV) batteries is now considered a critical raw material. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation (MSCC-ET) method to reprocess CO 2 from heavy industry flue gases into carbon nanomaterials and graphite. kg CO 2 eq/kg and 13.8

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JUNE 4, 2021

The Natrium technology has a 345MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt-based integrated energy storage system that will provide clean, flexible energy and stability for the grid. TerraPower and PacifiCorp announced efforts to advance a Natrium reactor demonstration project at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming.

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Wyoming Molten Salt Coal Sodium 199

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3.

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Molten Salt Low Cost Recharge MIT 186

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MARCH 1, 2022

The JD/CA will help advance the development of Li-Metal’s high-performance low-cost lithium metal anode technologies and Blue Solutions’ solid-state batteries to be used in passenger electric vehicles (EVs). The molten salt electrolysis of the chloride mixture is both capital- and energy-intensive, and can be environmentally damaging.

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Molten Salt Commercial Batteries Battery 170

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JUNE 4, 2010

million from the Department of Energy to design and develop technologies aimed at significantly lowering electricity costs using a Concentrated Solar Power Tower with Thermal Storage (CSP Power Tower). The energy from this stored molten salt is available on-demand to drive a steam turbine to create electricity.

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Molten Salt Solar Power Powered 170

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MARCH 5, 2015

Molten salt batteries still account for a majority of installations by energy capacity, because of NGK Insulators’ early lead, but are no longer the technology of choice, according to Lux. Li-ion accounted for 419 MW and 1,555 MWh of proposed storage systems in 2014.

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Li-ion Molten Salt Grid 2014 150

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Because the walls of these honeycomb-like structures are made of chemically stable MIEC, the lithium never loses electrical contact with the material, Li says. 2019) “Gradient Li-rich oxide cathode particles immunized against oxygen release by a molten salt treatment.” Nat Energy 4, 1049–1058 doi: 10.1038/s41560-019-0508-x.

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Li-ion Design Molten Salt Batteries 268

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The latest funding is going to projects that could improve energy efficiency in buildings by reducing loads on air conditioners; reduce costs associated with generating electricity from solar power; and improve efficiency and power density of electric machines. Transformational Nanostructured Permanent Magnets. million in funding.

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Molten Salt Los Angeles Power Powered 231

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The PNNL researchers have developed a process to grow high-performance crystals in molten salts—sodium chloride, common table salt—at high temperature. volts—minimizes damage while still within the normal range of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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MARCH 19, 2015

The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built.

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Molten Salt Fuel Concept United States 150

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Battery electric Plug-in hybrid electric Hybrid Fuel cells. Solid oxide solid acid Phosphoric acid molten carbonate Polymer electrolyte membrane. Mirrors Molten salts. Examples of technologies and components of interest. Technologies. Components. Vehicles in all vehicle classes. Grid storage. Solar photvoltaics.

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Molten Salt Fuel Energy Grid 150

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APRIL 19, 2013

In this scenario, excess renewable electricity can be used to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen. Further exploring the potential of this method should cause advances in molten-salt chemistry, surface science, catalyst preparation, and reaction engineering. intermittency).

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Molten Salt Energy Storage Renewable Hydrogen 225

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. General Electric Global Research.

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Solar Conversion Hybrid Molten Salt 300

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MAY 11, 2018

The conventional Hall–Héroult process (invented in 1886) for smelting aluminum involves dissolving alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) in molten cryolite, and electrolyzing the molten salt bath, typically in a purpose-built cell with carbon electrodes. That represents an amount roughly equal to taking nearly 1.8

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Carbon Commercial Molten Salt Canada 186

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

However, LiCoO 2 is not suitable for electric vehicle applications because of limitations in the natural resources of Co; hence, it is not cost-effective. Nevertheless, the energy density of LiFePO 4 is approximately 500 Wh kg -1 , which does not meet the specifications for battery devices in electric vehicles. Hence, LiNi 0.80

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Li-ion Ni-Li Molten Salt Batteries 150

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JUNE 19, 2010

Almost one-quarter of global electricity could be generated from nuclear power by 2050, making a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Molten Salt Reactor (MSR).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Professor Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started a company, Ambri (initially Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, which comprise layers of molten material which automatically separate due to their differing densities. Earlier post.).

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MIT Grid Batteries Battery 256

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JULY 3, 2010

Solana will include six hours of molten salt thermal energy storage capability, which will allow energy to be dispatched as needed during cloudy periods and after sunset. With this capability, Solana will be able to generate electricity well into the evening to help meet the summer peak demand.

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Solar Molten Salt Arizona Power 186

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MAY 13, 2017

In an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances, the team reports using a low-temperature (260 °C) molten salt electrodeposition approach directly to electroplate the Li-ion cathode materials layered LiCoO 2 , spinel LiMn 2 O 4 , and Al-doped LiCoO 2. Xerion is a startup company co-founded by Paul V.

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Molten Salt Illinois 170

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Nuclear energy generates nearly a fifth of US electricity and accounts for half of all domestic clean energy generation. University of Utah will develop a pyrochemical process for efficiently converting UNF into a fuel feedstock suitable for sodium-cooled fast reactors or molten-salt-fueled reactors. Award amount: $2,711,342).

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Molten Salt Fuel EPRI Waste 371

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Despite the low capacity of LTO (175 mAh/g) relative to that of graphite (372 mAh/g), lithium-ion cells with advanced LTO anodes are particularly attractive for a new, emerging generation of safe lithium-ion batteries to power hybrid electric vehicles and other mobile devices, as well as for stationary energy storage applications.

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Lithium Titanate Li-ion South Africa Lithium Ion 231

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JULY 10, 2019

Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Madison, Wis. Louisville, Colo.

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MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. Using reflective mirrors, the sun’s radiation will heat a liquid salt within each receiver. SkyFuel, Inc.

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MAY 1, 2009

High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. One of the feasible approaches is heating sand (Olivine, also the catalyst of gasification reaction) by hot molten salt from a solar concentrator tower, using a gasifier designed as a fluidized-bed of olivine particles.

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Solar Molten Salt Fuel Production 186

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Lignin is viewed as a waste stream that is typically burned to generate heat and electricity for the biorefinery, but if other uses for lignin could be found with higher economic value it would significantly improve the refinery’s overall economics. —Socha et al. —Blake Simmons.

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Molten Salt Waste Fuel Renewable 236

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Projects will address one or more R&D categories, including: Technologies, materials, and superconducting-magnet and fuel-cycle subsystems between the fusion plasma and balance of plant; Cost-effective, high-efficiency, high-duty-cycle, electrical-driver technologies; and. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.

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