Deep Eutectic Salt Formulations Suitable as Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids
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Solar Energy Technologies Program Peer Review
Deep Eutectic Salt Formulations Suitable as
Advanced Heat Transfer FluidsJustin W. Raade, PhD
Halotechnics, Inc.
May 26, 2010
Award No. DE-FG36-08GO18144CSP
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Overview
• Project start date: January 1,2009
• Project end date: December31, 2011
• Percent complete: 34%
• This project will enable the cost ofCSP electricity to be reduced by15%. We are developing a heattransfer fluid that will allow hightemperature operation of CSPplants.
• Total project funding
– DOE share: $1.5 million
– Contractor share: $564,000
• Funding received in FY09:$500,000
• Funding for FY10: $500,000
Timeline
Budget
Barriers
Partners• Halotechnics, Inc.
• Sandia National Laboratories willpartner in Phase 3 for field testing.
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Background and objective
• Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)is lowest cost solar electricity
– 13-17 ¢/kWh
• Must reduce cost of CSP tocompete with fossil fuels
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Novel materials needed for heattransfer fluid (HTF) and thermalenergy storage (TES)
HTF
TES
Project Objective: Conduct
an R&D program focusing ondeep eutectic (low-melting)
salt formulations suitable as
advanced heat transfer fluids
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Project milestones
• Milestone 1: Approximately 250 (100 minimum) primary candidate formulationsCandidates must meet the following criteria:
– freezing point less than 80°C (100°C maximum)
– thermal stability as a liquid to about 500°C (450°C minimum)
• Milestone 2: Approximately 10 (5 minimum) secondary candidate formulations.Candidates must meet the following criteria:
– viscosity of about 1 centipoise (10 centipoise maximum) to about 500°C
– vapor pressure of about 5 atmospheres (10 atmospheres maximum) to about 500°C
– specific gravity in the range of 0.7-1.7 (0.5 minimum, no maximum) to about 500°C
– heat capacity in the range of 2-5 J/g/K (1 J/g/K minimum, no maximum) to about 500°C
• Milestone 3: At least 1 commercial production candidate. Candidate(s) must meetthe following criteria (as determined by field testing at Sandia):
– sufficient pumpability
– thermal cycling tolerance
– sufficient long-term thermal stability
– chemical compatibility with common stainless steels
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Project timeline
Status May 2010
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Materials discovery workflow
Powdernium powderdispensing robot
Parallel Melting PointWorkstation (PMP) with
96 channel capability
High temperaturefurnace formelting/mixing
• Symyx software and R&D tools enable automatedworkflow
• Maximum throughput of 500 blends/week• High throughput workflow can be leveraged to
develop advanced materials similar to HTF suchas thermal energy storage materials
Automation Studio tocreate experiments andmanage data
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Thermal properties characterization
• Thermal stability
– High temperature thermogravimetricanalysis (TGA)
– TA Instruments Q500 with 16position autosampler
• Heat capacity – Differential scanning calorimeter
(DSC)
– TA Instruments Q200 with 50position autosampler
• Viscosity
– Brookfield viscometer (to beacquired)
– Capable of testing up to 300 °C,may modify for higher temperature
• Molten salt chemistry
– Symyx Low Thermal Mass Reactorfor testing salts up to 500 °C
TGA with 16 position
autosampler
DSC with 50 position
autosampler
High temperature
viscometer
Low Thermal Mass Reactor
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Milestone and results
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Milestone 1: Approximately 250 (100minimum) primary candidate formulations
• Candidates must meet the following criteria:
– freezing point less than 80°C (100°Cmaximum)
– thermal stability as a liquid to about 500°C
(450°C minimum)
Meltingpoint
Thermalstability
Primary candidate
formulations
Primary screen
189
5030
138
5030 blends screened for melting point189 blends met melting target 500 °C
Phase 1 results
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Heat transfer fluid for trough plants
• Must increase plant operating temperature to 500 °C to increase thermalefficiency and reduce levelized cost of electricity would enable$0.02/kWh reduction according to Sandia study
• Current plants limited to 390 °C by synthetic oil heat transfer fluid (VP-1)
• Existing salt-based heat transfer fluids have unacceptably high meltingpoint, typically 142 °C (Hitec), preventing any CSP applications
• Can combine best attributes of both with “deep eutectic” salt formulations high thermal stability of salt with low melting point of synthetic oil
Recent breakthrough: Discovered formulations with melting
point less than 75 °C and thermal stability to 500 °C
6005004003002001000 °C
synthetic oil
traditional salt
Halotechnics Solar Salt Patent Application No. 61325725
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Deep eutectic salt formulations
• Eutectic salt formulations exhibit low melting points
• Screened over 5000 unique blends of nitrates, nitrites, and other salts
• Discovered many eutectic blends with melting points below 75 °C
• Large number of possible salt formulations is a combinatorial problem andsignificant barrier to entry
Binary mixture Ternary mixture Quaternary mixture High order mixtures
Na + K = 220 °C Binary + Li = 120 °C Ternary + Ca = 90 °C Quaternary +++ = 75 °C
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Thermal stability
• Blends containing nitrite are susceptible to oxidation in air
• TGA screening method produces relative ranking of thermal stabilityof blends, not absolute measurement
• Long term field testing is planned for Phase 3
TGA thermal stability behavior of Hitec nitrate-onlyblend in air and nitrogen.
TGA thermal stability behavior of Hitec nitrate/nitriteblend in air and nitrogen.
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Data flow
CONSTRAINTS• Cost• Safety• Stability• Previous results
EXPERIMENT DESIGN
DATA ANALYSIS
Library Studio Screening workflow Data
FEEDBACK
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Baseline Li-Na-K-NO3 system
Typical PMP data All values in mol%
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Visualization of quaternary phasespace
• Each end face of triangular prism is ternarysystem (Li-Na-K-NO3 and Li-Na-K-NO2 inthis example)
• Plot series of cross sections at constant NO2level to visualize melting point data
Li
Na
K
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Visualization of quinary phase space
ion 5
ion 6
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Visualization of 7 ion phase space
Ion 5
ion 6
Ion 5
ion 5
ion 7
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From lab to plant
• Next phases will build upon successof Phase 1 (2009) to transfertechnology from the lab to field testing
• Phase 2 (2010) focus on secondaryscreening for other desirableproperties
• Phase 3 (2011) focus on blendoptimization and field testing withSandia National Laboratories
• Will work closely with customers totest HTF in pilot plants before full
scale deployment
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From lab to plant
R&DComponent
testingSystemtesting
Pilot plantCommercial
plant
1-10 g 10 kg 1000 kg 100 tons 10,000 tons
Must work with leadingCSP technology
developers to bringHTF from lab to plant
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Summary
• Halotechnics has developed a novel salt mixture suitable for use as a heattransfer fluid in CSP plants, increasing their efficiency and reducing theircost
• The heat transfer fluid has a broad operating range (75 °C to 500 °C)
• Halotechnics will continue to optimize and field test the heat transfer fluid
with industry partners in order to bring the material to market