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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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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Batteries encompass a range of chemistries. 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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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The PNNL researchers have developed a process to grow high-performance crystals in molten salts—sodium chloride, common table salt—at high temperature. volts—minimizes damage while still within the normal range of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

An Airborne Wind Turbine (AWT), which is a high performance wing connected to the ground by a tether, will be developed to demonstrate autonomous flight, power generation, and flight modes under a wide range of wind conditions. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA): Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids.

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JULY 10, 2012

The new Durathon battery products ( earlier post )—half the size of conventional lead acid batteries but which last ten times longer—are targeted for cost-effective energy storage options for a range of applications, including telecom and utility operators.

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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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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Although “high temperature” might suggest something that could burn you, HTS materials operate in a range of 20 to 77 kelvins (around –200 to –250 °C). 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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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

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. Their system can take electricity or heat as input and releases hot air or steam in the range of 170 to 400 degrees Celsius as output.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Rather than depend on acidic electrolytes, ionic liquids are used to create a solid polymer electrolyte composed of an ionic liquid and polyvinyl alcohol, developing novel types of solid state batteries with discharge voltages ranging up to 1.8 The unique properties of ionic liquids have fostered this interest in battery applications.

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APRIL 27, 2012

million financing and grant awards totaling almost $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Air Force (USAF) and US Navy (USN), Boulder Ionics will demonstrate the use of ionic-liquid-based electrolytes in a range of devices from ultracapacitors and lithium-ion batteries to metal-air batteries. With this $4.3

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JULY 22, 2016

Applying up to 145 pounds per square inch of carbon dioxide to the system shifted the pH to a range that was optimal for the enzymes and microbes. The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again. They then conducted tests with various concentrations and pressures of carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Nearly universal solvating capabilities, low vapor pressures, and high thermal stabilities make these compounds ideal substitutes for a wide range of organic solvents. Ionic liquids (ILs) have unique properties applicable to a variety of industrial processes.

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MAY 8, 2010

Using reflective mirrors, the sun’s radiation will heat a liquid salt within each receiver. A specialized molten salt transport system will then move the high-temperature fluid to a molten-salt steam generator that produces electricity. The system will also feature a thermal storage system.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). Some could be suitable for a wider range of locations and to new applications beyond electricity production, for example to provide industrial heat. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR). Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR).

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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. A high-quality integrated structure will promote designs of PFCs, for a range of fusion-energy concepts, with unprecedented flexibility for performance and reliability.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. Ceramatec tested the process on heavy oil, oil shale, and oil sands feedstocks with a wide range of densities, boiling curves, and sulfur, nitrogen, metals, and asphaltene contents. The remaining product is elemental sulfur. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Thermal Storage: Molten Salt Storage: This involves storing heat in molten salt and using it to generate steam, which then drives a turbine to produce electricity. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES): In CAES systems, excess electricity is used to compress air, which is then stored in underground caverns.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

The team selected magnesium as the anode material on the basis of its low cost, high earth abundance, low electronegativity, and overlapping liquid range with both Sb and candidate electrolytes. Cells were fully discharged at various rates ranging from 50 to 200 mA/cm 2 with 0.05 V as the discharge cutoff limit.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The cells can carry out these processes efficiently and across a wide range of power levels, which allows them to be used in both a distributed manner and in large centralized facilities. Li-ion cells can provide 90% round-trip DC-DC efficiency at relevant rates); and (2) scalability across a wide range of power levels (i.e.,

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MARCH 21, 2013

The device would also capture a wide range of solar temperatures, including those too high to be captured by current state-of-the-art molten-salt heat storage devices. Electricity: Negawatt Consulting, Inc.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The pump could also be used to allow higher temperature operation in concentrated solar power applications, where molten salts are now used. Because liquid tin doesn’t react with hydrocarbons, bubbling methane into liquid tin would crack the molecule to produce hydrogen and solid carbon without generating carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 14, 2014

Other projects focus on advancing lightweight materials research to help electric vehicles increase their range and reduce battery needs, and developing advanced climate control technologies that reduce energy used for passenger comfort and increase the drive range of plug-in electric vehicles. University of Maryland. 1,500,000.

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JULY 17, 2013

This range provides a disruptive change to the state-of-the-art, yet avoids the complications and expense of materials for T h > 600°C. The most useful systems will be flexible enough to accept a range of heat-to-electricity ratios of the exergy input. inexpensive molten salt storage and/or the use of a steam Rankine turbine).

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AUGUST 10, 2015

ARC uses an all-liquid blanket, consisting of low pressure, slowly flowing fluorine lithium beryllium (FLiBe) molten salt. The liquid blanket is low-risk technology and provides effective neutron moderation and shielding, excellent heat removal, and a tritium breeding ratio ≥ 1.1.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

range of cultivation. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. vehicles (EVs) without draining the electric battery, in effect, extending the driving range of EVs per electric charge. This would extend the driving range of. The team will optimize the. conventional crops. North Carolina State.

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