I believe that molten fluoride salts can replace water in the LeClair reaction. During the development of the molten salt reactor, it was found that the erosion rate on the impellers of the molten salt pumps during cavitation were ten times the erosion rate using water.
The temperature of the molten fluoride salts are in the 500C to 700C range, high enough to provide good thermodynamic efficiency in power generation. These types of molten salts are ionic liquid and dielectric. It will support cavitation just great. The molten salts will vaporize in the low pressure phase of the cavitation bubble formation process. The fluorides in the salts will support the formation of many transition metal fluoride compounds except nickel which is impervious to fluoride corrosion. A number of secret sauce candidate elements: lithium and potassium can be used in the molten salt eutectic. Nickel micro and Nano powders might increase the LENR reaction rates and associated heat production. The big advantage of the higher operating temperatures over the curie temperatures of nickel enabled by the molten salts is the possible elimination of radiation production that cold water temperatures might cause in water cavitation. On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Chris Zell <[email protected]> wrote: > http://pieeconomics.blogspot.com/p/cavitation-radiation.html > > If this was already posted, forgive me. Somebody claims radiation emitted > from cavitation. Credible? I dunno. >
