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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The hot brine that comes up from the subsurface as part of geothermal power production at the Salton Sea in California is a rich stew of minerals, including iron, magnesium, calcium, sodium, and lithium. We’ll look at how quickly might you expect the resource to be regenerated—is it centuries? Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab).

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Ceramatec licensing molten sodium technology for heavy oil upgrading; removing the need for diluent for bitumen

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APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process. An innovative oil-upgrading technology that can increase the economics of unconventional petroleum resources has been developed under a US Department of Energy-funded project. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Vanderbilt researchers find iron pyrite quantum dots boost performance of sodium-ion and Li-ion batteries

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. In this work we explore the sodium and lithium conversion of ultrafine FeS 2 nanoparticles, with a tight size distribution centered around ∼4.5 —Anna Douglas.

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PATHION develops new LiRAP-based solid-state electrolytes for Li-sulfur and sodium-ion batteries

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APRIL 28, 2015

Supported by an ARPA-E grant, LiRAP has proven to be a safe alternative compared to the liquid electrolytes used in most of today’s lithium ion batteries. PATHION is working on a derivative for Li-sulfur batteries as well as a derivative that could be applied in a sodium-ion battery. Lithium sulfur. Braga, J.A. Ferreira, V.

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Li-ion Sodium Lithium Sulfur Batteries

Xcel Terms First Phase of Sodium-Sulfur Battery Wind Energy Storage Test Project Successful

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AUGUST 11, 2010

In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed. Reduce the need to compensate for the variability and limited predictability of wind generation resources. They are able to store about 7.2

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Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. times above that of sodium-ion batteries with graphite electrodes.

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Spontaneous formation of hollow structures in alloy anode crystals can improve battery stability

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JUNE 10, 2020

Though they may be costly, the self-hollowing antimony nanocrystals have another interesting property: they could also be used in sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries, emerging systems for which much more research must be done. —Matthew McDowell. Boebinger, et al.

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Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

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MARCH 1, 2017

lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +.

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UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

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APRIL 14, 2021

Chloride is the common element in many different types of salts such as sodium chloride (table salt) and calcium chloride (commonly used for road salt). This work was supported by Maryland Sea Grant (Award No. SA75281870W), the National Science Foundation (Awards No. Kaushal, S.S., Likens, G.E.,

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NSF to award up to $13M for fundamental work on sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels

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APRIL 7, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a grants opportunity notice ( PD-14-7644 ) for up to about $13 million in awards to fundamental research and education that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels. The duration of unsolicited awards is typically three years.

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Vanderbilt/ORNL team discovers new form of crystalline order that could be attractive for thermoelectric applications

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

If you put a pair of sodium and chlorine atoms at each lattice point, they form sodium and chlorine sub-lattices and you get salt. When you have more than one atom at each point, each type of atom forms its own sub-lattice. For example, if you put a pair of carbon atoms at each point (forming two FCC sub-lattices), you get diamond.

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NC State Researchers Developing Ozonolysis Pretreatment for Energy Grass Feedstocks

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JULY 4, 2010

At present, pretreatment techniques include physical, chemical, physicochemical and/or biological methods such as steam explosion; hot water extraction; sulfuric acid; sodium hydroxide; hydrogen peroxide; peracetic acid; ammonia fiber explosion (AFEX); and wet oxidation in addition to an emerging body of work on ozonolysis.

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GAO: US government obligated $1.3+ billion in 39 battery and energy storage initiatives from FY 2009-2012; fragmented but not duplicative

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Several types of recipients were eligible for funding, such as private industry, universities, and federal labs, through contracts, grants, and other mechanisms. Sodium batteries. In addition to these obligations, DOE supported about $596 million in direct loans. through 2012. Number of obligations. Funding obligations. Capacitors.

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Brown Chemists Develop Process to Simplify Waste Vegetable Oil to Biodiesel Process, Chart Progress of Transesterification Reaction

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Also, the conversion requires the toxic chemicals sulfuric acid and either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide. The second reaction converts the triacylglycerols into biodiesel, but that conversion requires sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. Waste vegetable oil is made up of triacylglycerols, free fatty acids, and water.

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Waste Oil Sodium Conversion

Study identifies halogen-free superhalogen electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

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OCTOBER 25, 2014

They also found that the procedure outlined for Li-ion batteries is equally valid for other metal-ion batteries, such as sodium-ion or magnesium-ion batteries. The researchers hope that the findings will lead to production of safer, less toxic batteries. Our research proved that to be the case. —Puru Jena. 201408648.

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Novel single-site gold WGS catalysts may offer pathway to lower-cost production of hydrogen, fuels and chemicals

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

A team of researchers from universities and national laboratories led by Tufts University has developed catalysts composed of a unique structure of single gold atoms bound by oxygen to several sodium or potassium atoms and supported on non-reactive silica materials. This single-site gold species is active for the low-temperature (.

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Berkeley Lab leading investigation to quantify and characterize Salton Sea’s geothermal lithium resources

Ceramatec licensing molten sodium technology for heavy oil upgrading; removing the need for diluent for bitumen

Vanderbilt researchers find iron pyrite quantum dots boost performance of sodium-ion and Li-ion batteries

PATHION develops new LiRAP-based solid-state electrolytes for Li-sulfur and sodium-ion batteries

Xcel Terms First Phase of Sodium-Sulfur Battery Wind Energy Storage Test Project Successful

Researchers convert atmospheric CO2 to carbon nanofibers and nanotubes for use as anodes in Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

Spontaneous formation of hollow structures in alloy anode crystals can improve battery stability

Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

UMD-led study: road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies

NSF to award up to $13M for fundamental work on sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels

Vanderbilt/ORNL team discovers new form of crystalline order that could be attractive for thermoelectric applications

NC State Researchers Developing Ozonolysis Pretreatment for Energy Grass Feedstocks

GAO: US government obligated $1.3+ billion in 39 battery and energy storage initiatives from FY 2009-2012; fragmented but not duplicative

Brown Chemists Develop Process to Simplify Waste Vegetable Oil to Biodiesel Process, Chart Progress of Transesterification Reaction

Study identifies halogen-free superhalogen electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

Novel single-site gold WGS catalysts may offer pathway to lower-cost production of hydrogen, fuels and chemicals

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