Fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactors: Review of historical milestones, research status, challenges, and outlook

D Jiang, D Zhang, X Li, S Wang, C Wang, H Qin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (FHR) is a Generation IV nuclear energy
system with huge potential for further development. Owing to its unique advantages, such as …

Review of the solubility, monitoring, and purification of impurities in molten salts for energy storage in concentrated solar power plants

TC Ong, M Sarvghad, K Lippiatt, L Griggs… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Thermal Energy Storage (TES) for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) applications is
a vital part of bringing green technologies to cost parity with traditional fuel-based power …

Corrosion of 316L & 316H stainless steel in molten LiF-NaF-KF (FLiNaK)

W Doniger, C Falconer, A Couet, K Sridharan - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The corrosion behavior of 316L and 316H stainless steels (low and high carbon,
respectively) in molten LiF-NaF-KF (FLiNaK) salt at 700° C for 500 h has been investigated …

Corrosion electrochemistry of chromium in molten FLiNaK salt at 600° C

HL Chan, E Romanovskaia… - Journal of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The manuscript revisits the corrosion behavior of pure Cr in molten FLiNaK salt at 600 C
from the perspective of corrosion electrochemistry. In this work, the potential-dependent, rate …

Tellurium segregation-induced intergranular corrosion of GH3535 alloys in molten salt

L Jiang, K Wang, B Leng, XX Ye, SJ Chen, RD Liu… - Corrosion …, 2022 - Elsevier
The catastrophic intergranular cracking had been observed in the low-Cr alloy components
in the primary loop of molten salt reactor. Such cracking was related to the coupling effect of …

Corrosion performance of Ni-based structural alloys for applications in molten-salt based energy systems: Experiment & numerical validation

M Lee, O Muránsky, I Karatchevtseva, H Huang… - Corrosion …, 2021 - Elsevier
The molten salt corrosion performance of a Y 2 O 3-strengthened Ni-Cr alloy (MA754®)
designed for high temperature applications (> 750° C) was compared to purpose-designed …

Effect of Nb contents on the surface tellurization and intergranular cracking behaviors of Ni-Nb-C alloys

L Jiang, K Wang, DJ Wang, ZJ Li - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
The effect of Nb addition on the surface tellurization and intergranular cracking behaviors of
the Ni-xNb-C alloys in tellurium (Te) vapor have been investigated in this study. It was found …

A reactive force field approach to modeling corrosion of NiCr alloys in molten FLiNaK salts

H Arkoub, S Dwivedi, ACT van Duin, M Jin - Applied Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The interface between NiCr alloys and FLiNaK molten salt exhibits complex corrosion
behavior, mainly driven by intricate chemical interactions involving Cr and F− ions …

Exploring Cr and molten salt interfacial interactions for molten salt applications

X Liu, Y Liu, LD Gibson, M Ge, D Olds… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Molten salts play an important role in various energy-related applications such as high-
temperature heat transfer fluids and reaction media. However, the extreme molten salt …

Influence of SiC microstructure on its corrosion behavior in molten FLiNaK salt

LJ Espinoza-Pérez, S Esquivel-Medina… - Ceramics …, 2021 - Elsevier
The influence of the microstructure on the corrosion rate of three monolithic SiC samples in
FLiNaK salt at 900° C for 250 h was studied. The SiC samples, labeled as SiC-1, SiC-2, and …