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APRIL 18, 2019

Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure. Zheng Chen, a professor of nanoengineering who is affiliated with the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, led the project. The work was published in Advanced Energy Materials.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

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 molten salt in the reactors core.

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Innovation News Network

MAY 13, 2024

VCU is developing metal treatments to increase corrosion resistance in molten salt systems, improving cost-efficiency and reducing waste. The post Corrosion resistance in molten salt environments appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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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). Bilpuch, Calvin R.

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APRIL 15, 2022

Scientists have been looking for solutions in gravity energy storage , thermal or geothermal storage , and also molten-salt batteries. A recent study from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) looks at molten-salt batteries that can “freeze” their charge for months until required.

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APRIL 9, 2022

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg signed a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg’s inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The floating nuclear power plant comes as a turn-key product, ready to be moored at an industrial harbor.

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MARCH 2, 2023

The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions. The team previously reported a neutral molten salt reaction. The new discovery shows that this neutral molten salt can undergo a further reaction into an acidic molten salt.

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MAY 10, 2023

3M Company will develop an isotope recovery process to enable commercial deployment of molten salt reactors. Terrestrial Energy, USA will submit pre-licensing topical reports to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to advance the development of its molten salt reactors and reduce regulatory risk for advanced reactors.

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Innovation News Network

JULY 20, 2022

A nuclear technology, molten salt reactors (MSRs), once considered to power aircraft during the Cold War, is now on the cusp of lighting our homes. The post Molten salt reactors: An old technology made new appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

University of North Texas will develop a self-powered, wireless sensor for long-term, real-time monitoring of high-temperature molten salt density and level to enable accurate safeguarding and monitoring of electrochemical processing of UNF. Award amount: $2,711,342). Award amount: $1,454,074).

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JUNE 4, 2018

Terrestrial Energy USA: Magnetically Suspended Canned Rotor Pumps for the Integral Molten Salt Reactor – $3,150,000. The Terrestrial Energy USA team will develop a novel, magnetically suspended circulation pump for molten salt reactors to improve plant performance, increase pump lifetime, and reduce cost.

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MAY 14, 2020

The team will first validate the product using a molten salt loop operating at the University of Michigan and apply it to the Kairos Power fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactor design to demonstrate how the proposed capability can be used to optimize plant design.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Accelerated Materials Design for Molten Salt Technologies Using Innovative High-Throughput Methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $1,861,820. This new integrated toolset could expedite materials development for molten salt technology by two orders of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2012

Lithium-ion and molten-salt battery costs will approach $500/kWh by 2022, reducing the high capital cost of emerging grid storage technologies. Molten-salt batteries hold the most potential to be the cheapest large-scale systems, with manufacturing improvements playing the largest role, accounting for 95% of the cost reduction.

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MARCH 11, 2023

P Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation method to reprocess the CO 2 -rich flue gases from heavy industry emitters, biogenic origin and even direct air captured (DAC) CO 2.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Liquefied molten salt is circulated into the receiver, where it is heated to about 1,000 °F (about 538 °C), then stored in a large insulated tank. The energy from this stored molten salt is available on-demand to drive a steam turbine to create electricity.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Two-tank molten salt is currently the preferred state-of-the-art thermal energy storage for solar thermal power plants. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA): Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids. This project will receive $2.4 million in funding.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

The observed cause of failure was evaporation of the molten salt electrolyte into the surrounding containment vessel, a mechanism that could be mitigated by alternative cell designs with reduced head space. After several weeks of cycling, the cells ceased to operate.

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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. —Lin et al. C in Molten Salt for High-Performance Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries,” Angew. and Qian, Y.

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Innovation News Network

JUNE 26, 2024

Using a new LIBS system, the measurement of salts within nuclear power systems can be easier than ever. The post Engaging molten salt aerosol-LIBS systems for future nuclear energy and technology appeared first on Innovation News Network. Discover more here.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2023

Stellaria aims to develop a molten chloride salt reactor (MSR). MSRs use molten salts as the heat transfer fluid. The liquid fuel can remain almost continuous in the reactor core.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

The structure of a sodium-metal halide cell consists of a conductive Ni network, molten salt electrolyte, metal current collector, carbon felt electrolyte reservoir, and the active sodium-metal halide salts.

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MAY 18, 2010

The cathode structure of a sodium-metal halide cell consists of a conductive Ni network, molten salt electrolyte, metal current collector, carbon felt electrolyte reservoir, and the active sodium-metal halide salts.

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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.

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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.

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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Hybrid Solar Converter with Solar Pond Receiver Otherlab will develop an integrated system that splits the solar spectrum, converting the most suitable wavelengths of sunlight into electricity via high-efficiency solar cells and using the rest of the spectrum to directly heat a pool of molten salt. 3,000,000.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

The Natrium technology has a 345MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten molten salt integrated energy storage system that will provide clean, flexible energy and stability for the grid. This new fundraise further builds on the support of existing investors and will support TerraPower’s current implementation efforts.

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JULY 19, 2023

million to support MoltexFLEX, a UK molten salt reactor developer based in the North West, to build and operate rigs for the development of molten salt fuel. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are an AMR type that use a molten salt as a coolant and fuel, leading to intrinsic safety compared with conventional fuels.

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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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MARCH 5, 2015

Molten salt batteries still account for a majority of installations by energy capacity, because of NGK Insulators’ early lead, but are no longer the technology of choice, according to Lux. Li-ion accounted for 419 MW and 1,555 MWh of proposed storage systems in 2014.

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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.)

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Inside the tower, molten salts 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 molten salt instead of lithium," said Fernando Gonzalez , CEO of Cerro Dominador. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour It's flexible.

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

The FHR is a new reactor concept that combines high-temperature graphite-matrix-coated particle fuel developed for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors; liquid salt coolant developed for molten salt reactors; and safety systems originating with sodium fast reactors.

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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. A number of complex stamped components could be manufactured in thinner gages of steel due to the formability of Bainitic High Strength Steel (BHSS).

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