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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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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). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor.

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MAY 10, 2023

million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. 3M Company will develop an isotope recovery process to enable commercial deployment of molten salt reactors. The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $22.1

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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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JULY 19, 2023

AMRs operate at a higher temperature than SMRs and as a result they could provide high temperature heat for hydrogen and other industrial uses alongside nuclear power. million to support MoltexFLEX, a UK molten salt reactor developer based in the North West, to build and operate rigs for the development of molten salt fuel.

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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. Stellaria aims to develop a molten chloride salt reactor (MSR). MSRs use molten salts as the heat transfer fluid.

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MARCH 11, 2023

P Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2 -rich flue gases from heavy industry emitters, biogenic origin and even direct air captured (DAC) CO 2. From every 3.7 tons of CO 2 , one ton of carbon material is produced.

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APRIL 21, 2022

UP Catalyst uses CO 2 -rich flue gases from heavy industry emitters as a feedstock for producing sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite, a critical raw material both in the EU and the US. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2.

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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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MAY 14, 2020

The projects will work to lower O&M costs by using diverse technologies that are driving efficiencies across other industries, such as artificial intelligence (AI), advanced control systems, predictive maintenance, and model-based fault detection. Digital twins of MSRs will require this critical data, which is currently unavailable.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. The industry now faces serious pressure to pick up the pace. body that governs the industry, representatives doubled down on carbon-reduction ambitions, setting a net-zero emissions goal for 2050.

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APRIL 21, 2021

The conventional Hall–Héroult smelting process (invented in 1886) 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. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. 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 flexible.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Or, solar thermal can directly provide heat for industrial processes to make steel, cement, and chemicals—all energy-intensive sectors that are difficult to clean up. 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 flexible.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. —Bernd Schaefer, CEO of EIT RawMaterials.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Blue Solutions is the only manufacturer in the market today producing and selling an all-solid-state lithium metal battery for real-life applications running on every continent, and this JD/CA will further enable Li-Metal to pioneer lithium metal anode technologies in next-generation batteries for the EV industry.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Technologies include energy storage with molten salt and liquid air or cryogenic storage. Molten salt has emerged as commercially viable with concentrated solar power but this and other heat storage options may be limited by the need for large underground storage caverns. Lithium batteries: the future of storage.

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MARCH 10, 2016

In the paper in Nature they showed that intermediate-temperature (200 to 350 ˚C) molten salts containing caesium or potassium cations enable carbonate ions (CO 3 2– ) to deprotonate very weakly acidic C–H bonds, generating carbon-centered nucleophiles that react with CO 2 to form carboxylates. —Banerjee et al.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The RFI is soliciting feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to the demand, supply, opportunities for developing substitutes, and potential for using materials more efficiently in the energy sector. Mirrors Molten salts. Solar photvoltaics.

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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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JUNE 12, 2023

A large part of that is due to industrial use by large, energy-hungry industries such as steel-making, chemical manufacturing, and construction. The startup Kyoto Group , based in the Netherlands, is targeting this industrial use of heat with their thermal storage system, which stores energy in the form of molten salt.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Thus the recent boom in battery recycling—and readers’ interest in this story on how the industry is expanding beyond China and South Korea and into the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Molten salt nuclear reactors fueled by thorium were first investigated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1950s.

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APRIL 27, 2018

These selections are the first under DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy’s US Industry Opportunities for Advanced Nuclear Technology Development funding opportunity announcement (FOA), and subsequent quarterly application review and selection processes will be conducted over the next five years. Earlier post.).

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JULY 15, 2023

Fusion-energy companies have now raised more than US $5 billion, the majority of it since 2021, according to Andrew Holland , the director of the Fusion Industry Association. CFS The working design calls for a continuously flowing loop of salt to be pumped into a tank surrounding the plasma chamber, where it absorbs radiated neutrons.

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MAY 18, 2010

GE has also introduced Durathon batteries for applications in the telecom and utility industries. The cathode structure of a sodium-metal halide cell consists of a conductive Ni network, molten salt electrolyte, metal current collector, carbon felt electrolyte reservoir, and the active sodium-metal halide salts.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Electric car batteries using molten salt could be significantly cheaper but offer twice the energy of their lithium-ion counterparts according to Sumitomo Electric Industries. Previous molten salt systems required operating temperatures [.].

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The team will adapt semiconducting materials used in today’s light-emitting diode (LED) industry to enable high-temperature operation. The team’s ultra- high-efficiency converter could be used to provide solar electricity and simultaneously collect solar heat near a centralized point of use, such as in industrial parks or shopping centers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a new class of contenders for high-voltage and high-capacity Li-ion cathode materials with the composition Na x Li 0.7-x x Ni 1-y Mn y O 2 (0.03. One of the compositions—Na 0.093 Li 0.57 V at 25 ˚C (between 2.0

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JULY 22, 2016

Much of the appeal of using carbon dioxide gas to neutralize the ionic liquid is the ease with which the technique can be integrated into existing industrial operations. This solution is also relatively non-toxic compared to other common industrial gases or pH-adjustment techniques.

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JUNE 13, 2011

The new steel, now trademarked as Flash Bainite , has tested stronger and more shock-absorbing than the most common titanium alloys used by industry. Though the typical temperature and length of time for hardening varies by industry, most steels are heat-treated at around 900 °C for a few hours.

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MARCH 14, 2022

With the solar that you use every day of the year, you put that into high-temperature, short-term storage in the form of thermal oil or molten salt or any of the existing CSP thermal-storage technologies.” Government funding and industry partnerships can support solar technology developers along this path, he adds.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Ionic liquids (ILs) have unique properties applicable to a variety of industrial processes. What if we could turn what is now a bane to the bioenergy industry into a boon? With respect to overall sugar yield, experimental evaluation of these compounds showed that they perform comparably to traditional ILs in biomass pretreatment.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

The first group, the Technifin patents, cover the basic use in lithium-ion cells of the LTO anodes invented in 1994 by Dr. Michael Thackeray (currently an Argonne Distinguished Fellow at the US Argonne National Laboratory) while at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.

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JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Solar Energy Industries Association, Washington, D.C. High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Madison, Wis.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Ionic liquids are room temperature molten salts that possess many important characteristics, such as nearly no vapor pressure, non-flammability and lack of reactivity in various electrochemical or industrial applications. The unique properties of ionic liquids have fostered this interest in battery applications.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Ionic liquids (room-temperature molten salts) are a relatively new class of materials that show promise for electrolytes in energy storage applications. Boulder Ionics will be the first US manufacturer targeting production of ionic liquids in industrial volumes.

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