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Nuclear power in space
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Véronique Michaud, Alexandre Achille Looten, Muriel Richard, Antonio Caiazzo
From the recent awareness of the booming number of space debris and their derived worldwide re-entry event threat originating from the use of high survivability components, complementary mitigation measures must be taken for future orbital elements. In thi ...
2023Solar-Driven High-Temperature Electrolysis Reactor for Fuel Processing
Solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) and thermochemical cycles (TCC) are two promising pathways for fuel processing and energy storage, which are considered in this thesis. The goals of this thesis are: i) offering engineering guidelines at sys ...
EPFL2018Novel aspects of plasma control in ITER
Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Sun Hee Kim
ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of operational discharges. In addition, high plasma energy content, heat fluxes, neutron ...
Amer Inst Physics2015Multi-Scale Modelling of a Solar Reactor for the High-Temperature Step of a Sulphur-Iodine-Based Water Splitting Cycle
Sophia Haussener, Aldo Steinfeld
The 3-step sulphur-iodine-based thermochemical cycle for splitting water is considered. The high-temperature step consists of the evaporation, decomposition, and reduction of H2SO4 to SO2 using concentrated solar process heat. This step is followed by the ...
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