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Canadian advances in the copper–chlorine thermochemical cycle for clean hydrogen production: A focus on electrolysis
Hongqiang Li,Lorne Stolberg,Adrian Vega,Wenyu Zhang,Stacey Reinwald,Donald Ryland,Hugh Boniface,S. Suppiah +7 more
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In this paper, the anode reaction of CuCl oxidation was investigated using a three-electrode electrochemical cell, and the effects of flow rate, temperature, and current density on the cell voltage were studied.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.The article was published on 2020-11-27. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hydrogen production & Thermochemical cycle.read more
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Mechanistic and kinetic study of thermolysis reaction with hydrolysis step products in Cu–Cl thermochemical cycle
TL;DR: In this article, a laboratory scale horizontal furnace reactor with CuO-CuCl2 equimolar mixture and Cu2OCl2 in the temperature range of 470-575°C was used for thermolysis experiments and the results showed that the conversion increased with an increase in CuCl2 percentage in the reaction mixture.
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Thermochemical looping technologies for clean hydrogen production – Current status and recent advances
TL;DR: In this article , a review of the most promising thermochemical cycles for clean hydrogen production is presented, which mainly focuses on identifying the capability of the state-of-the-art thermochemical cycle to deploy large-scale hydrogen production plants and their techno-economic performance.
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Thermodynamic analysis and optimization for steam methane reforming hydrogen production system using high temperature gas-cooled reactor pebble-bed module
TL;DR: In this article, thermal analysis and optimization for the steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen production system using the high temperature gas-cooled reactor pebble-bed module power plant (HTR-PM) are presented.
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Numerical study of thermal-hydraulic and dust-deposition of tube bundles in an intermediate heat exchanger
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used the unsteady k-kl-ω model to simulate flow and heat transfer in IHX tube bundles and used the discrete particle model combined with a deposition model to predict the movement and deposition behavior of graphite dust.
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Analysis of copper chlorine electrolysis for large-scale hydrogen production
TL;DR: In this article , a process and flow sheet for large-scale hydrogen production by CuCl electrolysis at 50 tonnes per day is proposed and analyzed, based on lab-scale experience with 50 l/h hydrogen generation.
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Canada’s program on nuclear hydrogen production and the thermochemical Cu–Cl cycle
Greg F. Naterer,S. Suppiah,L. Stolberg,Michele A. Lewis,Zhaolin Wang,V.N. Daggupati,Kamiel Gabriel,Ibrahim Dincer,Marc A. Rosen,P. Spekkens,Serguei N. Lvov,Michael Fowler,Peter R. Tremaine,Javad Mostaghimi,E.B. Easton,Liliana N. Trevani,Ghaus Rizvi,B.M. Ikeda,M. H. Kaye,Lixuan Lu,Igor Pioro,William R. Smith,E. Secnik,J. Jiang,Jurij Avsec +24 more
TL;DR: An overview of the status of Canada's program on nuclear hydrogen production and the thermochemical copper-chlorine (Cu-Cl) cycle is presented in this article, with particular emphasis on hydrogen production with Canada's Super-Critical Water Reactor, SCWR.
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Evaluation of alternative thermochemical cycles - Part I the methodology.
TL;DR: The Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative (NHI) of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology is supporting an effort to reevaluate thermochemical cycles reported in the literature as having both promising efficiencies and proof-of-concept results as mentioned in this paper.
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The evaluation of alternative thermochemical cycles – Part II: The down-selection process
Michele A. Lewis,Joseph G. Masin +1 more
TL;DR: The Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative (NHI) of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology is supporting an effort to reevaluate thermochemical cycles reported in the literature as having both promising efficiencies and proof-of-concept results as discussed by the authors.
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Comparison of different copper–chlorine thermochemical cycles for hydrogen production
TL;DR: In this paper, different types of copper-chlorine thermochemical cycles with various numbers of steps are compared and the factors that determine the number and effective grouping of steps were analyzed.
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Electrochemistry of high concentration copper chloride complexes.
TL;DR: This work investigated the species distribution of copper chloride complexes and how to measure the copper concentration precisely at high concentrations using electrochemical methods, by including migrational effects, to indicate that the main species of Cu(II) complexes in high chloride concentration is CuCl4(2-) and the mainspecies of Cu