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OCTOBER 28, 2011

million in a 50-megawatt parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt energy storage in Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, Spain. ACS has built more than €2 billion worth of concentrated solar power facilities with molten salt storage in Spain.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

million investment from Sustainable Development Technology Canada to support the development and commercialization of a new hydrogen manufacturing technology called Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification (MSG), originally developed at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL). A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. Background.

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MAY 14, 2020

The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. Digital twins of MSRs will require this critical data, which is currently unavailable.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water. The reactors would be small, modular units.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSRs) fit the bill—and, according to at least one source , China may be well on their way to developing MSR technology. Government researchers there unveiled a design for a commercial molten salt reactor (MSR) that uses. Uranium or thorium fuel can be mixed into the coolant salt.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time. Terrestrial Energy USA: Magnetically Suspended Canned Rotor Pumps for the Integral Molten Salt Reactor – $3,150,000. Yellowstone Energy: Reactivity Control Device for Advanced Reactors – $2,599,185.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2014

One-pot electrolytic process produces H 2 and solid carbon from water and CO 2. In this study, they focused on the electrolysis component for STEP fuel, producing hydrogen and graphitic carbon from water and carbon dioxide. 2014), “A One-Pot Synthesis of Hydrogen and Carbon Fuels from Water and Carbon Dioxide,” Adv.

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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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Green Car Congress

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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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

Conventional separate pretreatment and saccharification of biofuel feedstock (a) entails water and waste disposal that the new one-pot system (b) eliminates. Glucose and xylose were selectively separated by liquid–liquid extraction with over 90% efficiency, thus eliminating extensive water washing as a unit operation. Click to enlarge.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

In this scenario, excess renewable electricity can be used to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen, in turn, is then reacted with carbon dioxide to make methanol and water, thus allowing it to be stored as a liquid. One proposed solution is methanol-based hydrogen storage.

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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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MAY 31, 2024

Chilldyne optimized the cold plate using corkscrew-shaped metal channels, called turbulators, that force water around them “like little tornadoes,” maximizing the heat absorbed, says Harrington. The rare earth oxide then undergoes a molten-salt electrolysis process that converts it into a solid metal form.

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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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Baua Electric

JUNE 11, 2024

How the Natrium nuclear reactor plant works The project features a 345 MW sodium-cooled fast reactor with a molten salt-based energy storage system. Unlike water, the sodium doesn’t need to be pumped, because as it gets hot, it rises, and as it rises, it cools off.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation. Molten salt nuclear reactors fueled by thorium were first investigated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1950s.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Companies have looked into pumped hydroelectric systems that generate electricity from water flowing out of large artificial reservoirs, underground caverns that store hydrogen fuel electrolyzed from water, elevators that lift blocks of concrete and harvest their potential energy as they fall.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

The new approach, described in an open access paper in the journal Biotechnology for Biofuels , potentially could significantly reduce costs of sugar production from lignocellulose by eliminating the need for costly enzymes and decreasing the water consumption requirements. The use of ionic liquids (molten salts with melting points.

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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.). —Donald Sadoway.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Ionic liquids (room-temperature molten salts) are a relatively new class of materials that show promise for electrolytes in energy storage applications. Ionic liquids can be safer and higher-performance replacements for the flammable organic solvents currently used in devices such as lithium-ion batteries.

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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. DOE Funding: $2,560,000; Non-DOE: $640,000; Total Value: $3,200,000. Dynamic Natural Convection - Passive Cooling for the LWR Fleet: NuVision Engineering.

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JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Petaluma, Calif.

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JULY 15, 2023

In September 2021, at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center , the team energized the magnet and watched as the field it produced strengthened to an intense 20 tesla—about 400,000 times as strong as the typical value for Earth’s magnetic field, and more than strong enough to lift an aircraft carrier out of the water.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

High temperature heat for biomass gasification is obtained from a molten-salt system in a solar concentrating tower. Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. Hertwich and Zhang (2009).

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JULY 22, 2016

When CO 2 is absorbed in water, the resulting chemical reactions increase the liquid’s acidity. The process is easily reversible, allowing the liquid to be recycled for use as a solvent again. For their experiments, the researchers screened 15 types of ionic liquid at various concentrations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Westinghouse AP-1000, advanced pressured water reactor (APWR, about 1,200MW capacity. GE Hitachi ABWR (advanced boiling water reactor), 1,300-1,600MW. India PHWR (pressurized heavy water reactor),540-700MW. Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR). Molten Salt Reactor (MSR). GE Hitachi ESWBR, 1600 MW.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Rhotech Solar of South San Francisco was awarded $66,300 to determine the feasibility of adding a glazing layer to domestic water heaters to improve thermal performance by at least 70%. Electricity: Negawatt Consulting, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The new process eliminates the need for expensive equipment like centrifugal systems and molten salts used in similar proposed technologies. These composites, which can operate at high temperature, possess hydrogen density approaching that of water with a high and adjustable absorption amount.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

A smart meter is a digital device that records and monitors the consumption of electricity, gas, or water in a home or business. 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.

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APRIL 10, 2013

Flowchart of molten salt gasification process. Heavy oil is crude oil that is viscous and requires thermally enhanced oil recovery methods, such as steam and hot water injection, to reduce its viscosity and enable it to flow. The remaining product is elemental sulfur. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Background.

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JULY 17, 2013

Concentrating solar power (CSP), solar heating and solar hot water applications combined contribute less than 0.1% inexpensive molten salt storage and/or the use of a steam Rankine turbine). of US primary energy, and the deployment of these technologies is growing only slowly.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

As Clynes explains, Sparc’s planned successor, Arc, will feature a molten salt blanket that will absorb radiated neutrons and then pump them outside the tokamak to heat water into steam to power a turbine.

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