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APRIL 21, 2021

Aluminum production accounts for roughly 1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions each year, via a two~step process: refining of aluminum oxide powder from bauxite ore and conversion to aluminum in smelters. Earlier post.). However, nearly 20% of the emissions are from the production and degradation of the carbon anodes used during smelting.

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Cars That Think

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]. One is a thorium-fueled molten-salt reactor. We needed to get the conversation started.” How is it arranged? How do I refuel?

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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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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. A paper on the work is published in Nature.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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JULY 10, 2019

Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Louisville, Colo. National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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Cars That Think

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.” Therefore, regardless of the conversion technology, at large scales solar infrastructure has to be low cost per unit area.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Many recent research and development efforts for cellulosic biofuels have explored a two-step bioconversion process involving: 1) liberation of fermentable sugars from lignocellulose; and 2) conversion of sugars into fuels and/or chemicals by fermentation. The use of ionic liquids (molten salts with melting points.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Zaghib currently serves as Administrator of the energy storage and conversion unit at Hydro-Québec. It has been conducting research on batteries for over 30 years, including extensive work on advanced materials, particularly molten salts, lithium iron phosphate and nanotitanates.

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Green Car Congress

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

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The new process eliminates the need for expensive equipment like centrifugal systems and molten salts used in similar proposed technologies. Such scalable, cost-effective fabrication of ODS steels may enable efficient power conversion cycles (?40%) 40%) at operating temperatures beyond 900 K in future fusion power plants.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. When electricity is applied to the ceramic membrane, elemental sodium is extracted through the membrane and recycled to the process. The remaining product is elemental sulfur. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

The primary goal of this funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000949 ) is to provide disruptive new solar conversion and storage technology options to enable a much higher penetration of solar energy generation into the US energy mix. Novel approaches to high T solar conversion. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Value (units).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A ceramic-based mechanical pump able to operate at record temperatures of more than 1,400 ˚C (1,673 K) can transfer high-temperature liquids such as molten tin, enabling a new generation of energy conversion and storage systems.

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Energy Storage Hydrogen Energy Georgia 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Hydrogen Production Solar fuels Water' Such cells can be driven by thermal sunlight to high temperature accommodating both facile kinetics at high current density and a lower endothermic electrolysis potential. In this study, we focus on the electrolysis component for STEP fuel. -F., and Licht, S.

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Water Solar Carbon Fuel 239

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AUGUST 14, 2014

This project will develop high specific energy, high power and highly reversible Li-air batteries that are based on the concept of replacing traditional electrolytes in the air electrode with a stable inorganic molten salt electrolyte. University of Maryland. Chrysler Group LLC. Ford Motor Company. 1,352,376.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. power conversion stations to interface with the grid.

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