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Agenda

  1. Opportunity Statement (reason to deliver/operate a molten salt facility at Texas A&M)
  2. Stakeholders:
    1. Industrial users of molten salt
    2. Manufacturers of components and equipment for molten salt systems
    3. Developers of molten salt process technology
  3. Funding sources:
    1. US Dept. of Energy
    2. ARPA-E
  4. Regulatory requirements (environmental assessment)
    1. Safety regulations
    2. Operation with DU
  5. User relationships
    1. Bilateral contracts to undertake proprietary development
    2. Testing of client components and equipment
    3. Partnership for shared data
    4. Collaborations with product development teams
  6. Facility basis for design (what the facility will be designed to support)
  7. Facility features
    1. Test loop
    2. Heat source (electric, gas, hybrid)
    3. Capacity (volume flow, pressure)
    4. Ability to drain and store molten salt mixtures, solid salt loading means, etc.
  8. Operating envelope
  9. Salts
    1. Ionic salt mixtures
    2. Molecular salts
  10. Hazards to mitigate (corrosion, stockpile solid salts, operational philosophy)
  11. Facility location
  12. Deliverables
  13. Report-out of workshop
  14. Milestone/ schedule timeline of events
  15. Action items