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APRIL 21, 2022

This has a major negative impact on the environment as they are either mined or synthesized from energy-dense fossil resources. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2. separation of products and collection.

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MAY 14, 2020

The teams will develop digital twin technologies for robust O&M strategies that can facilitate, among other things, more flexible operations for integration into an electrical grid with a large fraction of intermittent generation resources. Nuclear energy is considered by many to be critical to achieving emissions reduction goals.

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JUNE 4, 2018

ARPA-E developed this funding opportunity in close coordination with DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy, and MEITNER teams will have access to department modeling and simulation resources as they develop their concepts. Terrestrial Energy USA: Magnetically Suspended Canned Rotor Pumps for the Integral Molten Salt Reactor – $3,150,000.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

The type of spallation target: lead, lead– bismuth, tungsten, molten salt, etc. The nature of the cooling agent: gas, molten metal, molten salt. and Muons, is a molten-salt based ADSR that uses a linear accelerator to produce spallation neutrons. or liquid (fluorides, chlorides). Bowman and Rolland P.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

To prepare the nanoparticles, the team reduced SiCl 4 with metallic magnesium in a molten salt of AlCl 3 at 200 ?C AlCl 3 not only acts as molten salt, but also participates in the reaction. C in Molten Salt for High-Performance Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries,” Angew. C inside a stainless steel autoclave.

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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. 2022) “Fast-charging aluminium–chalcogen batteries resistant to dendritic shorting.”

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The researchers used a high-temperature surface treatment with molten salt to produce a protective surface layer on particles of manganese- and lithium-rich metal-oxide, so the amount of oxygen loss is drastically reduced. 2019) “Gradient Li-rich oxide cathode particles immunized against oxygen release by a molten salt treatment.”

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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. They found that the gliding is partially reversible under certain conditions and have proposed ways to avoid the damage altogether.

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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. Aanindeeta Banerjee, Graham R.

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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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APRIL 19, 2013

We anticipate that the modification of classical heterogeneous catalysts by molten salt coatings can be used in the future as a rational and general approach to optimize heterogeneous catalysts through surface modification or co-adsorption effects. —Kusche et al. Enzenberger, F., Niedermeyer, H., Bösmann, A., and Wasserscheid, P.

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MARCH 3, 2013

Now, by applying molten salt electrolysis to this oxide, Honda has succeeded in extracting metallized rare earth that can be used directly as negative-electrode materials for nickel-metal hydride batteries. Earlier post.) Proceedings of EMC 2003).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

However, LiCoO 2 is not suitable for electric vehicle applications because of limitations in the natural resources of Co; hence, it is not cost-effective. To address this issue, LiFePO 4 has emerged as a promising positive electrode material, owing to the abundance of iron resources. However, O3-Li 0.7 x Ni 1-y Mn y O 2 (0.03

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Ionic liquids are “room temperature molten salts”, composed of cations & anions, instead of neutral molecules. This breakthrough ionic lubricant technology could potentially save the US tens of million barrels of oil annually. Further development and optimization of IL molecular structures and lubricant formulation are being conducted.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Modeling and Optimization of Flow and Heat Transfer in Reactor Components for Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor Application: Elysium Industries USA. 417,000); Urbix Resources, LLC ($320,000); and ThorCon US, Inc. DOE Funding: $2,560,000; Non-DOE: $640,000; Total Value: $3,200,000. 130,000); Oklo, Inc. 400,000).

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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. Babu, Lolla, Ohio State research scientist Boian Alexandrov, and Cola co-authored the paper with Badri Narayanan, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering.

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MAY 13, 2017

In an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances, the team reports using a low-temperature (260 °C) molten salt electrodeposition approach directly to electroplate the Li-ion cathode materials layered LiCoO 2 , spinel LiMn 2 O 4 , and Al-doped LiCoO 2. The Us Department of Energy Office of Science supported this work at the U.

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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.). —Wang et al. Burke, Dane A.

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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. 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

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JULY 22, 2016

The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again. Their study, published RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , addresses a significant obstacle to expanding the market for biofuels: lowering the cost of production. The study lead author is Jian Sun, a postdoctoral researcher at JBEI.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Ionic liquids are molten salts that do not evaporate, and can be used to replace the current aqueous amine technology with proprietary ionic liquid – amine technology. Gin of CU’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, and also inventors, serve as advisors. Bara, et al. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ie8016237

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MARCH 21, 2013

The use of ionic liquids (molten salts with melting points. However, easily liberating the sugars and other monomers from cellulosic biomass for conversion is one of the major challenges to the cost-effectiveness of cellulosic pathways.

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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. Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Researchers at JBEI have been cost-effectively deconstructing biomass into fuel sugars by pre-treating the biomass with ionic liquids—salts that are composed entirely of paired ions and are liquid at room temperature. This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.

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JULY 10, 2019

Ultra-Fast and - Thick Boriding of Geothermal Casing to Enhance Reliability, $150,000 Controlled Thermal Resources Inc., El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Louisville, Colo. Louisville, Colo.

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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. Providing adequate education and training resources is essential for maximizing the benefits of the system.

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JUNE 19, 2010

The industrial capacities and skilled human resources necessary to build, operate and maintain nuclear plants will also need to be increased over the next few years if nuclear is to expand rapidly. Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). Concepts for Gen IV Systems. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

GAMOW projects will work in synergy with publicly and privately funded fusion-development efforts, including ARPA-E’s ALPHA and BETHE fusion programs, and will leverage the technical resources and basic research SC-FES sponsors in these areas. ARPA-E and SC-FES will jointly fund the projects over the program’s three-year lifespan.

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MARCH 23, 2016

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Large-scale energy storage is poised to play a critical role in enhancing the stability, security, and reliability of tomorrow’s electrical power grid, including the support of intermittent renewable resources. After several weeks of cycling, the cells ceased to operate. —Bradwell et al. Bradwell, Hojong Kim, Aislinn H.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

However, current fluoride batteries use molten salt electrolytes, and thus need to operate at high temperatures. Rechargeable fluoride-based batteries could offer very high energy density. Victoria K. Davis, Christopher M. Bates, Kaoru Omichi, Brett M. Savoie, Nebojša Mom?ilovi?, Qingmin Xu, William J. Wolf, Michael A. Webb, Keith J.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

In their efforts to develop cost-effective ways to deconstruct cellulosic biomass into fuel sugars, the researchers focused on pretreatments of the biomass with ionic liquids—environmentally benign organic salts often used as green chemistry substitutes for volatile organic solvents. Jian Shi, John M. Singer, Blake A.

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MARCH 21, 2013

They are available only for new natural gas and propane vehicles that meet all California Air Resources Board emission requirements. 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.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

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. The authors noted that the H 2 Coulombic efficiency in the LiOH/Li 1.6 and Licht, S. Energy Mater.

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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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JULY 17, 2013

Models of the solar-resource-rich California electricity grid show that PV curtailments will begin at penetrations as low as 12%, while about one-third of PV electricity would be curtailed at penetrations of ~28%. inexpensive molten salt storage and/or the use of a steam Rankine turbine).

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