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Sodium Metal Production for Energy Storage from Warm Seawater Discharged at Nuclear Power Plant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2015

Masataka Murahara  and
Yuji Sato
Masataka Murahara
Affiliation:
Professor Emeritus of Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan M Hikari & Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Yuji Sato
Affiliation:
Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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Abstract

The storage and transportation barriers of hydrogen are cleared by sodium metal “Source of Hydrogen” produced from warm seawater discharged at the nuclear power plant. The warm seawater is electrolyzed to produce sodium hydroxide; which is then subjected to molten-salt electrolysis by surplus power of the plant to produce sodium metal “a hydrogen generator”. The seawater contains salt most after fresh water; which is the raw material of sodium metal and is never drained. The sodium metal is transported to the electric power station in a consumption place, where a large amount of hydrogen is generated immediately by adding water on the sodium metal for power generation. Salt, the raw material of sodium metal, is in the sea over the world, and it is not necessary to worry about the maldistribution and exhaustion.

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energy generationenergy storagehydrogenation
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1739: Symposium Y – Technologies for Grid-Scale Energy Storage , 2015 , mrsf14-1739-y04-14
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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