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JUNE 4, 2018

These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time. Terrestrial Energy USA: Magnetically Suspended Canned Rotor Pumps for the Integral Molten Salt Reactor – $3,150,000. Yellowstone Energy: Reactivity Control Device for Advanced Reactors – $2,599,185.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. A 30-kilowatt, 42-square-meter aperture production unit is in development.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. A 30-kilowatt, 42-square-meter aperture production unit is in development.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

As Clynes explains, Sparc’s planned successor, Arc, will feature a molten salt blanket that will absorb radiated neutrons and then pump them outside the tokamak to heat water into steam to power a turbine. Crucially, the molten salt could also breed tritium, a necessary but incredibly rare fuel for magnetic-confinement fusion.

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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. —Pang et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

In this scenario, excess renewable electricity can be used to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen, in turn, is then reacted with carbon dioxide to make methanol and water, thus allowing it to be stored as a liquid. Hydrogen Hydrogen Production Hydrogen Storage Methanol Power Generation Solar Wind' Enzenberger, F.,

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Green Car Congress

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. Iolyte-U1 is currently under development.

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JULY 22, 2016

Their study, published RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , addresses a significant obstacle to expanding the market for biofuels: lowering the cost of production. Pretreatment is the most expensive part of the biofuels production process. —Seema Singh, director of Biomass Pretreatment at JBEI, and corresponding author.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Molten Salt Gasification Process. Western Hydrogen Limited reported first production of hydrogen from its Molten Salt Gasification (MSG) pilot plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. The MSG process occurs in a single high-pressure reactor in which a carbon-based feedstock and water react with a molten salt bath.

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Green Car Congress

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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MAY 1, 2009

High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. Fuel productivity (kg fuel/100 kg resource).

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JUNE 12, 2023

As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. Kyoto Group Buildings are another big consumer of heat, accounting for almost half of total heat consumption, mostly for space and water heating.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And most green hydrogen production still relies on electrolyzers, which themselves consume lots of electricity. This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The new approach, described in an open access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , potentially could significantly reduce costs of sugar production from lignocellulose by eliminating the need for costly enzymes and decreasing the water consumption requirements. The use of ionic liquids (molten salts with melting points.

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JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Neutron Spectrum Generator, $75,000 Rapid Field Chemical Detection and Determination of Actinides, $42,500 Switchable Solvent Water Extraction for Material Processing and Isolation, $150,000 Trevi Systems Inc., Louis , Mo.

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JUNE 13, 2011

The flash process consumes only a kW of energy per kilogram of steel processed; water is used instead of polluting oils or molten salt. A number of complex stamped components could be manufactured in thinner gages of steel due to the formability of Bainitic High Strength Steel (BHSS).

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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.). —Donald Sadoway.

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JULY 15, 2023

In September 2021, at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center , the team energized the magnet and watched as the field it produced strengthened to an intense 20 tesla—about 400,000 times as strong as the typical value for Earth’s magnetic field, and more than strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier out of the water.

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APRIL 27, 2018

This project will develop the design and license application development for a fuel fabrication facility capable of handling high-assay, low-enriched uranium and production of US-developed uranium oxycarbide (UCO) TRistructural ISOtropic (TRISO) particle based fuel elements required for the future fleet of advanced reactors.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Total electricity production in the scenario more than doubles, from just under 20,000 TWh in 2007 to around 41,000 TWh in 2050. Westinghouse AP-1000, advanced pressured water reactor (APWR, about 1,200MW capacity. GE Hitachi ABWR (advanced boiling water reactor), 1,300-1,600MW. Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR).

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

A smart meter is a digital device that records and monitors the consumption of electricity, gas, or water in a home or business. These systems store excess energy generated during periods of high production and release it when demand is high or when renewable generation is low.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Regeneration of sodium using a patented ceramic transport membrane reactor developed by Ceramatec: The sodium salts are dissolved in a solvent, and introduced to the ceramic membrane reactor. The remaining product is elemental sulfur. Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. Source: Field Upgrading. Background.

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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. ORNL will establish a new class of RAFM steels based on carbide-strengthened CNAs to demonstrate the viability of industry-scale CNA production.

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MAY 8, 2010

The selected projects will seek to improve component and system designs to extend operation to an average of about 18 hours per day, a level of production that would make it possible for these plants to displace traditional coal-burning power plants. Using reflective mirrors, the sun’s radiation will heat a liquid salt within each receiver.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2014

One-pot electrolytic process produces H 2 and solid carbon from water and CO 2. In this study, they focused on the electrolysis component for STEP fuel, producing hydrogen and graphitic carbon from water and carbon dioxide. 2014), “A One-Pot Synthesis of Hydrogen and Carbon Fuels from Water and Carbon Dioxide,” Adv.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

Conventional separate pretreatment and saccharification of biofuel feedstock (a) entails water and waste disposal that the new one-pot system (b) eliminates. Glucose and xylose were selectively separated by liquid–liquid extraction with over 90% efficiency, thus eliminating extensive water washing as a unit operation. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Motiv Power Systems, Inc. C/e Solutions, Inc. Electricity: Negawatt Consulting, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

Concentrating solar power (CSP), solar heating and solar hot water applications combined contribute less than 0.1% In Germany, about 5% of annual electrical energy production is now from solar resources, and solar energy frequently contributes more than 20% of the required grid power on a summer day.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Synthetic Crop for Direct Biofuel Production through Rerouting the Photosynthesis Intermediates and Engineering. biomass production. transferred into highly productive energy crops such as.

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