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MAY 14, 2020

EPRI’s approach is similar to that adopted by the commercial airline industry, in which multiple refurbishments—including engine replacement—can keep a jet aircraft flying economically over many decades. X-energy: Advanced Operation & Maintenance Techniques Implemented in the Xe-100 Plant Digital Twin to Reduce Fixed O&M Cost - $6,000,000.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. Engines in ordinary ships are the size of houses,” says Emblemsvåg, who is leading NuProShip. One is a thorium-fueled molten-salt reactor.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs) fit the bill—and, according to at least one source , China may be well on their way to developing MSR technology. Government researchers there unveiled a design for a commercial molten salt reactor (MSR) that uses. concentrated solar power plants that store heat via molten salts. "So

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JUNE 4, 2018

The General Atomics team seeks to develop a detailed and dynamic model of a nuclear power system using a helium-driven Brayton-cycle engine. By using a closed Brayton-cycle engine with components connected directly to the reactor core, the team expects to simplify plant construction, leading to lower costs and shorter commissioning times.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. It's like a big battery of molten salt instead of lithium," said Fernando Gonzalez , CEO of Cerro Dominador.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

The type of spallation target: lead, lead– bismuth, tungsten, molten salt, etc. The nature of the cooling agent: gas, molten metal, molten salt. and Muons, is a molten-salt based ADSR that uses a linear accelerator to produce spallation neutrons. or liquid (fluorides, chlorides). Bilpuch, Calvin R.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. It's like a big battery of molten salt instead of lithium," said Fernando Gonzalez , CEO of Cerro Dominador.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 1985, the project has brought together 35 countries and thousands of scientists and engineers. That crucial engineering step will be accomplished by some other group. Crucially, the molten salt could also breed tritium, a necessary but incredibly rare fuel for magnetic-confinement fusion.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Prototype low-viscosity ionic liquid-additized engine oil demonstrated a 2% improved fuel economy compared to Mobil 1 5W-30 engine oil (3.93% over the 20W-30 baseline oil) in standard fuel efficiency engine dynamometer tests.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The new electrode concept comes from the laboratory of Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering. The expanding and contracting lithium inside these tubes moves in and out, sort of like a car engine’s pistons inside their cylinders.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Liquefied molten salt is circulated into the receiver, where it is heated to about 1,000 °F (about 538 °C), then stored in a large insulated tank. The energy from this stored molten salt is available on-demand to drive a steam turbine to create electricity.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. The Open Innovation Contest on energy storage is coordinated by the BASF research unit “Process Research and Chemical Engineering.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Permanent magnets Batteries Catalytic converters Lightweighting (platform, frame, engine cradle, etc.). Solid oxide solid acid Phosphoric acid molten carbonate Polymer electrolyte membrane. Trough system Power tower system Dish engine system. Mirrors Molten salts. Mirrors Molten salts. Grid storage.

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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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APRIL 19, 2013

We anticipate that the modification of classical heterogeneous catalysts by molten salt coatings can be used in the future as a rational and general approach to optimize heterogeneous catalysts through surface modification or co-adsorption effects. —Kusche et al.

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor. A group of universities led by Charles Forsberg of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) at MIT has been awarded $5 million as part of the NEUP initiative.

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JULY 10, 2012

Megatron Federal, an engineering company with products and services in power generation, transmission, distribution, construction and telecommunications based in Johannesburg, South Africa, has signed a purchase agreement for 6,000 batteries, which will be delivered in 2013. —GE Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. Molten salt nuclear reactors fueled by thorium were first investigated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1950s.

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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. He holds an engineering degree in electronics and industrial information technology.

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JULY 15, 2023

The engineering challenge of building complex systems that can harvest the energy and convert it to electricity without being destroyed by radiation poses a series of tall engineering and materials-science hurdles. The molten salt will likely be a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride, known as FLiBe.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Thermo-Acoustic PV Hybrid Solar Energy System Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems will develop a dish- shaped hybrid solar converter that combines a high-efficiency solar cell with a thermo-acoustic engine that converts heat into electricity. 3,000,000.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Modeling and Optimization of Flow and Heat Transfer in Reactor Components for Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor Application: Elysium Industries USA. Dynamic Natural Convection - Passive Cooling for the LWR Fleet: NuVision Engineering. DOE Funding: $2,560,000; Non-DOE: $640,000; Total Value: $3,200,000.

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JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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MARCH 14, 2022

We use extruded plastic D-profile pipes, with mirrors on the flat side of the D, that just rest on the ground,” says Nicholas Kramer , cofounder and engineering head of Hyperlight. During winter, he adds, they can pull up the energy and generate zero-carbon electricity based on the demand curve.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Inventor Gary Cola approached Suresh Babu, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Ohio State, and Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Integrative Materials Joining for Energy Applications, headquartered at the university. Steel is what we would call a mature technology.

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

ION Engineering , a start-up founded by scientists at the University of Colorado, is integrating room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) solutions into amine-based carbon capture and emissions control technology. ION Engineering founders Drs. Noble and Douglas L.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Mainstream Engineering will develop a vacuum swing separation technology to separate and capture volatile radionuclides, which should lower life cycle capital and operating costs, and minimize waste that must be stored. Award amount: $2,659,677). Award amount: $1,580,774). Award amount: $2,711,342). Award amount: $1,454,074).

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JULY 22, 2016

Some focus on engineering enzymes and bacteria so that they can withstand the exposure to ionic liquids, while this study focuses on neutralizing the ionic liquid so it won’t harm the enzymes and microbes. The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Unlike ethanol, “drop-in” transportation fuels derived from biomass have the potential to be directly dropped into today’s engines and infrastructures at high levels—greater than 50%%without negatively impacting performance. Ionic liquids (ILs) have unique properties applicable to a variety of industrial processes.

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JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C., Madison, Wis. Louisville, Colo. San Diego, Calif.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The new process eliminates the need for expensive equipment like centrifugal systems and molten salts used in similar proposed technologies. Interfacial-Engineered Membranes for Efficient Tritium Extraction - $1,397,973. Colorado School of Mines. Currently, scalable tritium extraction and pumping technologies do not exist.

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MAY 8, 2010

CSP technologies concentrate the sun’s energy and capture that energy as heat, which then drives an engine or turbine to produce electrical power. Using reflective mirrors, the sun’s radiation will heat a liquid salt within each receiver. SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. – The system will also feature a thermal storage system.

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MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Development of Carbon Fiber Composites for Lightweight Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. This project will develop light-duty, spark-ignition engines with natural gas direction injection and gasoline port fuel injection systems.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

Even in cases where high-temperature fluids are used, such as gas turbines and rocket engines, the pumps and compressors are not operated at high temperatures. The material is still brittle and you have to be careful with the engineering, but we’ve now shown that it can work. —Asegun Henry.

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JULY 17, 2013

A subsidiary objective of the FOCUS Program is to form a diverse research community (including, e.g., CSP mechanical engineers, PV semiconductor materials and device scientists, optics/photonics experts, chemists, low-cost manufacturing experts and system integrators) who will innovate together. batteries or flywheels).

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