Prototype Demonstration of an Integration of a Gibbs Energy Minimizer with TRANSFORM for Molten Salt Reactor Mass Accountancy Studies

Chemical Thermodynamic Modeling of Molten Salts to Support Off-Gas Abatement Systems

“…This method relies on the calculation of Gibbs free energy within the system to determine stability of each constituent within the salt solution. Greenwood et al (2020) seeks to integrate chemistry capabilities into the Transient Simulation Framework of Reconfigurable Models (TRANSFORM) and couple this with (MSTDB). Ultimately, this may lead to more accurate mass accountancy with the ability to track species across as many process operations as can be programmed into the model.…”

“…This framework is derived from the work done by Greenwood et al (2020). However, in this work's system of interest, the presence of a sweep gas that constantly dilutes and removes volatile species from the headspace allows for the additional assumption that the headspace is sufficiently dilute such that the concentration in the bulk gas is assumed to be negligible.…”