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Molten Salt Vapor Pressure

08/08/2012 9:45 AM

Where can I find information on the vapor pressure of molten salts such as sodium nitrite and potassium nitrate?

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08/08/2012 10:07 AM
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08/08/2012 2:00 PM

Thanks for the quick reply. I am trying to find vapor pressure data for molten sodium nitrite and potassium nitrate and their mixtures. I have already visited the 3 items you have listed. 1. pertains to flouride salts 2. mentions potassium nitrate but doesn't give any data 3. this is an overview of heat storage using molten salts.

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08/08/2012 10:09 AM
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08/08/2012 2:02 PM

I had already tried this search string but I can't get it to lead me to specific information on sodium nitrite and potassium nitrate and their mixtures.

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08/08/2012 9:43 PM

I found these (not free)

http://www.springerlink.com/content/n118q2606h7l4843/

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g63034v7082q2744/

by Googling 'Vapor pressure of potassium nitrate'. If interested, you could look further and also by 'vapor pressure of sodium nitrite'

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08/09/2012 9:48 AM

Are you a "friend" of Timothy McVeigh?

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08/09/2012 10:41 PM

That was ammonium nitrate (and diesel fuel); nothing to do with eutectic salts.

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08/10/2012 7:55 AM

Thanks Tornado.

My bad.....I didn't do my homework like I should have!

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08/10/2012 2:58 PM
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08/13/2012 12:53 PM

The old (years 1960) french collection of reviews in mineral chemistry "Traité de Chimie Minérale Pascal"used to be rather detailed on such matters.

I am presently not far from the University of Paris XI at Orsay, but the librairy should be close for the summer's hollydays until the beginning of september.

I shall have a look at the books "metaux alcalins" and "azote" for the requested nitrites and nitrates.If these datas are not available there, I know no other source.

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11/23/2012 9:56 PM

For most practical purposes, the vapor pressure of any molten salt can be taken to be zero. That wouldn't be true if you're running a high vacuum process and are concerned about contamination, but if you're only concerned about containing molten salts for thermal storage, the vapor pressure is low enough that zero will be a good approximation.

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