Publications related to Molten salt

Dynamic CO2 sorption on MgO-based sorbent in the presence of CO and H2O at elevated pressures

The presence of gas species other than the target adsorbate in practical conditions causes complications in implementing a sorption-based process because of synergistic or detrimental effects on the sorption mechanism. MgO-based sorbents have attracted mas ...

2022

Improved methodology for analysis and design of Molten Salt Reactors

Rodrigo Gonzalez Gonzaga De Oliveira

Molten Salt Reactors is a class of advanced reactors that is typically characterised by the presence of a molten inorganic salt of a fissile material as fuel. At the moment, this class of reactors is considered one of the promising options in the long run ...

EPFL2021

Nanocapillary confinement of imidazolium based ionic liquids

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion, Sebastian James Davis, Zeng-Qiang Wu

Room temperature ionic liquids are salts which are molten at or around room temperature without any added solvent or solution. In bulk they exhibit glass like dependence of conductivity with temperature as well as coupling of structural and transport prope ...

2020

A General and Facile Approach for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Inspired by Deep Eutectic Solvents

Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were applied to the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). Choline-based DESs represent a non-toxic and inexpensive alternative to room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) as additives to the system or as electrolyte. F ...

2019

Breed-and-burn fuel cycle in molten salt reactors

Andreas Pautz, Boris Aviv Hombourger, Jiri Krepel

The operation of a reactor on an open but self-sustainable cycle without actinide separation is known as breed-and-burn. It has mostly been envisioned for use in solid-fueled fast-spectrum reactors such as sodium-cooled fast reactors. In this paper the app ...

EDP Sciences2019

Cfd-Based Correlation For Forced Convection Heat Transfer In Circular Ducts Of Internally Heated Molten Salts

Carlo Fiorina

Heat transfer phenomena involving internally heated fluid flows are of particular interest in several industrial applications, in chemical plants as in the nuclear field. This topic is relevant for the development of the Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) since i ...

AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS2018

Intricacies of Cation-Anion Combinations in Imidazolium Salt-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of CO2 Into Epoxides

Paul Joseph Dyson, Gabor Laurenczy, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Martin Hulla, Dmitry Vasilyev, Florent Menoud, Sami Manoubi Armand Chamam

The cycloaddition of CO2 into epoxides catalyzed by imidazolium and related salts continues to attract attention due to the industrial importance of the cyclic carbonate products. The mechanism of the imidazolium-catalyzed transformation has been proposed ...

2018

Conceptual Design of a Sustainable Waste Burning Molten Salt Reactor

Boris Aviv Hombourger

For an energy source to qualify as sustainable, it must maximize the efficiency with which it uses natural resources while minimizing the amounts of waste it produces. Currently deployed nuclear power plants however use a very limited amount of the energy ...

EPFL2018

Solar-driven reduction of CO₂ : from homogeneous to heterogeneous catalytic systems

Marcel Roland Schreier

Rapidly increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and their damaging impact on the global climate system raise doubts about the sustainability of the fossil resource based energy system. Meanwhile, raising living standards and increasing global popul ...

EPFL2017

Functionalized Ionic (Poly)Styrenes and their Application as Catalysts in the Cycloaddition of CO2 to Epoxides

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Shoubhik Das

Valorization of CO2, an abundant C(1) synthon, into platform chemicals is of growing interest. In this context, a key reaction is the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides to form carbonates (CCE). A series of organocatalysts for this reaction, based on imidazo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Catalysis at room temperature ionic liquid|water interface: H2O2 generation

Hubert Girault, Gunther Wittstock

H2O2 is produced at the interface between a room-temperature ionic liquid with decamethylferrocene as electron donor and an acidic aqueous solution. The electron donor can be regenerated electrochemically. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Catalyzed by Metal Oxides

Yeonji Oh

A rapidly growing population and industrialization have caused the exploitation of natural resources in keeping with fossil fuels shortage. Due to the combustion of fossil fuels, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere, which is a potent greenho ...

EPFL2015

Stable Quasi-Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Novel Low Molecular Mass Organogelators and Room-Temperature Molten Salts

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yong Ding, Bing Zhang, Chunyang Zhang, Li Tao

Stable quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) were fabricated by using room-temperature molten salts (1-methyl-3-hexyl-imidazolium iodide), and a series of diamine derivatives with different lengths of alkyl chain as low molecular mass organog ...

American Chemical Society2014

The making of iLiquids - the chemist's equivalent of the iPhone

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei

In this viewpoint we discuss the contributions from John S. Wilkes and Michael J. Zaworotko concerning the discovery of stable ionic liquids (ILs) and their accompanying structural studies (J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1992, 965) and Robin D. Rogers and J ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Adsorbed and near surface structure of ionic liquids at a solid interface

Kislon Voitchovsky, Juan José Segura Sugranes

The structure of solid-ionic liquid (IL) interfaces has been characterised with unprecedented clarity by employing a range of atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging techniques and tip pressures appropriate for the system under study. Soft contact and amplit ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Evaluation of ionic liquid soluble imidazolium tetrachloropalladate pre-catalysts in Suzuki coupling reactions

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Kelly Joan Kilpin, Xiang Li, Hongbing Song

Imidazolium salts with aromatic groups 1,3-bis(9-anthracenylmethyl)imidazolium chloride ([Bamim]Cl), 1,3-bis(1-naphthalenylmethyl)imidazolium chloride ([Bnmim]Cl) and 1,3-bis( benzylmethyl)imidazolium chloride ([Bbmim]Cl) were reacted with PdCl2 forming th ...

Elsevier2012

Transport properties of room-temperature ionic liquids from classical molecular dynamics

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi

Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have attracted much attention in the scientific community in the past decade due their novel and highly customizable properties. Nonetheless, their high viscosities pose serious limitations to the use of RTILs in prac ...

Amer Inst Physics2012

Temperature-Dependent Ordering Phenomena of a Polyiodide System in a Redox-Active Ionic Liquid

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Verner Thorsmolle

Iodine added to iodide-based ionic liquids leads to dramatic changes of their physical properties which may have implications for technological applications. Here we study the phase diagram of 1-methyl 3-propylimidazolium iodide, the temperature versus iod ...

2012

Capillarity in pressure infiltration: improvements in characterization of high-temperature systems

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Raphaël Charvet, Alain Léger, Willy Dufour, Claudio Bacciarini, Noelia Rojo Calderon

In the pressure infiltration of metal matrix composites, molten metal is injected under external pressure into a porous preform of the reinforcing material. Equilibrium capillary parameters characterizing wetting for this process are summarized in plots of ...

Springer Verlag2012

Extraordinarily efficient conduction in a redox-active ionic liquid

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Guido Rothenberger, Verner Thorsmolle

Iodine added to iodide-based ionic liquids leads to extraordi- narily efficient charge transport, vastly exceeding that expect- ed for such viscous systems. Using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, in conjunction with dc conductivity, diffusivity and visc ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011