Hydrogen production via water splitting process in a molten-salt fusion breeder
✍ Scribed by Gülşah Özişik; Nesrin Demir; Mustafa Übeyli; Hüseyin Yapici
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1001 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3199
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✦ Synopsis
This study presents the hydrogen production and fissile breeding potentials of Force-Free Helical Reactor (FFHR) fueled with the molten-salt mixtures. The sulfureiodine (SeI) thermochemical water-splitting and high-temperature electrolysis cycles, which are the most promising water-splitting cycles, are selected to produce large-scale and pure hydrogen. The XSDRNPM/SCALE4.4a neutron transport code is used for the neutronic calculations. The analyses have been performed individually for four different moltensalt mixtures, (pure FLiBe, mixture of FLiBe and ThF 4 , mixture of FLiBe and UF 4 , and mixture of FLiBe, ThF 4 and 233 UF 4 ). The numerical results bring out that the considered molten-salt fusion breeder reactor has a high neutronic performance and can produce a considerable amount of the hydrogen production (up to 40 kg/s), as well as the fissile fuel (up to 2.5 tons/yr).