Molten salts and fused media: provide the key properties and thetheory of molten salts, as well as aspects of fused salts chemistry, helping you generate new ideas and applications for fused salts.
This book examines how the electrical and thermal properties of molten salts, and generally low vapour pressure, are well adapted to high temperature chemistry, enabling fast reaction rates. It also explains how their ability to dissolve many inorganic compounds such as oxides, nitrides, carbides and other salts make molten salts ideal as solvents in electrometallurgy, metal coating, treatment of by-products and energy conversion.
This book also reviews newer applications of molten salts including materials for energy storage such as carbon nano-particles for efficient super capacitors, high capacity molten salt batteries and for heat transport and storage in solar plants. In addition, owing to their high thermal stability, they are considered as ideal candidates for the development of safer nuclear reactors and for the treatment of nuclear waste, especially to separate actinides from lanthanides by electrorefining.
Frédéric Lantelme developed the use of appropriate stable and radioactive isotope indicators to study the properties of ionic media oriented toward industrial applications (Aluminium, fluorine, refractory metals). He has actively participated to the pioneering work of numerical simulation of ionic media. He received the Pierre Süe award of the French Chemical Society.
Henri Groult is deeply involved in fundamental studies about the reaction mechanism of fluorine evolution in KF-2HF, this gas being used for the synthesis of UF6 which allows the uranium enrichment. He develops also original routes in molten salts for the preparation of compounds (carbon, Sn-based alloys…) which are used as electrode materials in Li-ion battery.
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