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Terrestrial Energy, Schneider partner on molten salt reactor
Terrestrial Energy and Schneider Electric are teaming to deploy Terrestrial Energy's integral molten salt reactor (IMSR) to provide zero-emission power to industrial facilities and large data centers.
The companies signed a memorandum of understanding in April to jointly develop commercial opportunities with high-energy users looking for reliable, affordable, and zero-carbon baseload supply. Terrestrial Energy said that working with Schneider “offers solutions to the major energy challenges faced by data center operators and many heavy industries operating a wide range of industrial processes such as hydrogen, ammonia, aluminum, and steel production.”
Claudia Bogdan, Sebastian Brad, Horia Necula, Oleksandr Sirosh, Catalin Brill, Mihai Vijulie, Alin Lazar, Aleksandr Grafov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 3 | May 2024 | Pages 443-454
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2259238
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The following properties are needed to increase the efficiency of refrigeration, liquefaction, and cryogenic separation cycles: Heat exchangers must have high effectiveness doubled by high compactness; small temperature differences between incoming and outgoing flows must be ensured to increase efficiency; there must be a large heat transfer surface, relative to the volume of the heat exchanger, to minimize heat loss; there must be a high heat transfer rate to reduce the transfer area; there must be a small pressure drop to reduce compression costs; and there must be high reliability with minimal maintenance. All these properties are entirely fulfilled by the designed matrix heat exchangers (MHEs). This paper presents the results of the research program developed by the team of the Cryogenic Laboratory from INC-DTCI ICSI Ramnicu Valcea, which included procedural stages of the realization and preliminary results of the characterization of the MHE-type heat exchanger in a narrow range of values to achieve a proper solution for a heat exchanger to be used for cryogenic purposes, such as cooling the gas mixture at the entrance of a distillation column of hydrogen isotopes and running at low pressure (typically regimes of 0.5 to 2.0 bars) and flows. Within several experimental campaigns, different assembly and testing techniques of the matrix heat exchanger (MHE) prototype were performed to achieve numerical data for the temperature and pressure drops along the heat exchanger and to verify ANSYS Fluent numerical simulation results. The results showed that for the designed and tested MHE prototype, a temperature drop of up to almost 230 K can be obtained at the established parameters correlated with pressure losses within a few millibars (the maximum recorded pressure drop is 80 mbars), small dimensions (64 mm high), and accessible weight (up to 2000 g).