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Construction of the molten-salt electrolyte battery. is considering targeting its lower-temperature molten-salt electrolyte battery, being developed in partnership with Kyoto University ( earlier post ), to makers of electric and hybrid passenger cars, according to Bloomberg. Source: Sumitomo. Click to enlarge.
in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. Molten-salt batteries use highly conductive moltensalts as an electrolyte, and can offer high energy and power densities.
Abilene Christian University’s (ACU) Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) Lab submitted an application for a construction permit for a molten-salt research reactor (MSRR) with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Earlier post.).
This project will advance modeling the behavior and properties of structure materials under moltensalt conditions. The project aims to understand and anticipate the couplings between corrosion and irradiation effects at the atomistic scale in a variety of metals exposed to moltensalt in a reactor. Total funding is $9.25
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. Sadoway is formally the Chief Scientific Advisor.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Professor Jie Lian has been awarded $500,000 from the US Department of Energy as part of the Nuclear Energy University Research Program (NEUP) to conduct research and develop new materials that will make advanced nuclear reactors more resilient and economically efficient.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have improved their recycling process that regenerates degraded cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries. Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic moltensalts at ambient pressure.
In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. Chinas efforts put it at the forefront of both thorium-based fuel breeding and molten-salt reactors. In this kind of reactor, thorium fluoride dissolves in moltensalt in the reactors core.
Chemists from the University of Waterloo have successfully resolved two of the most challenging issues surrounding lithium-oxygen batteries, and in the process created a working battery with near 100% coulombic efficiency. In addition, the superoxide consumes the organic electrolyte in the process, which greatly limits the cycle life.
The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Earlier post.) Award amount: $4,715,163). Award amount: $1,844,998).
VCU is developing metal treatments to increase corrosion resistance in moltensalt systems, improving cost-efficiency and reducing waste. The post Corrosion resistance in moltensalt environments appeared first on Innovation News Network.
North Carolina State University: Development of a Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System for Advanced Reactors – $3,386,834. State University of New York at Buffalo: Reducing Overnight Capital Cost of Advanced Reactors Using Equipment-based Seismic Protective Technologies – $1,443,635.
A nuclear technology, moltensalt reactors (MSRs), once considered to power aircraft during the Cold War, is now on the cusp of lighting our homes. Here, the University of South Carolina’s Professor Ted Besmann details the concept, history, and future potential of MSRs.
The OPEN+ advanced nuclear projects are: Additive Manufacturing of Spacer Grids for Nuclear Reactors, Carnegie Mellon University, $1,000,000. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in collaboration with Cornell University, will use advanced microfabrication technology to fabricate and scale low-cost, high-power multi-beam ion accelerators.
University of Michigan: PROJECT "SAFARI”- Secure Automation For Advanced Reactor Innovation- $5,195,000. The University of Michigan will develop physics-based, model-centric, and scalable capabilities to achieve unprecedented integrated state awareness for advanced reactor power plants. EPRI studies have identified the potential for a.
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA): Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids. Two-tank moltensalt is currently the preferred state-of-the-art thermal energy storage for solar thermal power plants. This project will receive $3 million in funding. This project will receive $2.4
Arizona State University. High-Temperature Topping Cells from LED Materials Arizona State University will develop a solar cell that can operate efficiently at temperatures above 450°C, unlike today’s solar cells, which lose efficiency rapidly above 100°C. Arizona State University. The University of Tulsa. Description.
A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) reports a new method for the synthesis of polycrystalline silicon nanoparticles for use as anode materials in Li-ion batteries in a paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie. AlCl 3 not only acts as moltensalt, but also participates in the reaction. —Lin et al.
The group is joined by a non-financial investor UniTartu Ventures, an investment company of the University of Tartu, which transfers the IP rights for equity. UP Catalyst uses a moltensalt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2. separation of products and collection.
Three MIT-led research teams have won awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs ( NEUP ) initiative to support research and development on the next generation of nuclear technologies. Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor.
Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) report in the journal Angewandte Chemie their development of an enhanced platinum catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol to release hydrogen. Most importantly, the surface is coated with a thin film of basic salts—a mixture of lithium, potassium, and cesium acetate.
The researchers used a high-temperature surface treatment with moltensalt 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 moltensalt treatment.”
Researchers at Ohio State University are working in collaboration with the inventor to understand the science behind a new flash-processing treatment that produces steel at least 7% stronger and with 30% greater elongation than published results on martensitic advanced high-strength steel. Steel is what we would call a mature technology.
Using a new LIBS system, the measurement of salts within nuclear power systems can be easier than ever. The post Engaging moltensalt aerosol-LIBS systems for future nuclear energy and technology appeared first on Innovation News Network. Discover more here.
The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a moltensalt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley.
Inside the tower, moltensalts 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 moltensalt instead of lithium," said Fernando Gonzalez , CEO of Cerro Dominador. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour It's flexible.
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 moltensalts.
ION Engineering , a start-up founded by scientists at the University of Colorado, is integrating room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) solutions into amine-based carbon capture and emissions control technology.
Researchers at Stanford University have devised a new strategy for using CO 2 in the synthesis of multi-carbon compounds. She then heated the mixture to about 200 ˚C to form a moltensalt. After five hours, 89% of the molten-salt mixture had been converted to FDCA.
Using reflective mirrors, the sun’s radiation will heat a liquid salt within each receiver. A specialized moltensalt transport system will then move the high-temperature fluid to a molten-salt steam generator that produces electricity. University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5
Michigan State University. Stanford University. University of Pittsburgh. State University of New York. University of Maryland. The George Washington University. . $6,000,000. Beyond Lithium Ion Technologies (Area of Interest 3). 1,276,000 (DOE/Army). 1,000,000.
Inside the tower, moltensalts 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 moltensalt instead of lithium," said Fernando Gonzalez , CEO of Cerro Dominador. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour It's flexible.
A team at George Washington University led by Professor Stuart Licht has simultaneously co-generated hydrogen and solid carbon fuels from water and CO 2 using a mixed hydroxide/carbonate electrolyte in a “single-pot” electrolytic synthesis at temperatures below 650 ? Click to enlarge.
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower.
The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.
Researchers at the University of Illinois, Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation and Nanjing University in China have developed a method for electroplating lithium-ion battery cathodes, yielding high-quality, high-performance battery materials that could also enable flexible and solid-state batteries. Zhang et al. Click to enlarge.
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.
University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.
Electric car batteries using moltensalt could be significantly cheaper but offer twice the energy of their lithium-ion counterparts according to Sumitomo Electric Industries. The Japanese electrics firm has teamed up with Kyoto University to produced a sodium-based electrolyte that works at temperatures of only 80 deg Celcius.
He is currently helping explore new computing frontiers in supersonic and hypersonic flight, geothermal energy exploration, and moltensalt reactors. He attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Air Force , DARPA , NASA , the National Science Foundation , the U.S.
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. “So
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.
national labs and universities as well as international research institutes. At this point, CFS’s preferred approach is to use a blanket of moltensalt, which could also breed tritium (also known as hydrogen-3), a rare isotope used to fuel magnetic confinement reactors.
University of California, Davis , was awarded $86,420 to determine the feasibility of using nanotechnology to increase the capacity of portable electricity storage units, reducing the cost of electricity storage. Humboldt State University was awarded $94,993 to investigate the use of biomass to convert waste heat energy into chemical energy.
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