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Overview
Timeline
Barriers
Budget
Partners
Halotechnics, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratories will
partner in Phase 3 for field testing.
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HTF
TES
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Project milestones
sufficient pumpability
thermal cycling tolerance
sufficient long-term thermal stability
chemical compatibility with common stainless steels
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Project timeline
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Automation Studio to
create experiments and
manage data
Powdernium powder
dispensing robot
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High temperature
furnace for
melting/mixing
Parallel Melting Point
Workstation (PMP) with
96 channel capability
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Thermal stability
Heat capacity
Viscosity
Brookfield viscometer (to be
acquired)
Capable of testing up to 300 C,
may modify for higher temperature
High temperature
viscometer
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Primary screen
Melting
point
5030
Thermal
stability
189
Primary candidate
formulations
138
Phase 1 results
5030 blends screened for melting point
189 blends met melting target <80 C
138 blends met thermal stability target >500 C
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traditional salt
synthetic oil
0
100
200
300
400
500
600 C
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Ternary mixture
Binary mixture
Na + K = 220 C
Binary + Li = 120 C
Quaternary mixture
Ternary + Ca = 90 C
Quaternary +++ = 75 C
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Thermal stability
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Data flow
Library Studio
Screening workflow
Data
DATA ANALYSIS
EXPERIMENT DESIGN
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CONSTRAINTS
Cost
Safety
Stability
Previous results
FEEDBACK
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Na
40%
K
Li
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Ion 5
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Ion 5
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Phase 2 plans
Viscosity screening
Seek to find good compromise with material properties and cost
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Component
testing
R&D
1-10 g
System
testing
10 kg
1000 kg
Pilot plant
100 tons
Commercial
plant
10,000 tons
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Summary
Halotechnics has developed a novel salt mixture suitable for use as a heat
transfer fluid in CSP plants, increasing their efficiency and reducing their
cost
The heat transfer fluid has a broad operating range (75 C to 500 C)
Halotechnics will continue to optimize and field test the heat transfer fluid
with industry partners in order to bring the material to market
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