Blykalla
Blykalla is a Swedish company that develops advanced small modular reactors (SMRs). Through their safe and sustainable lead-cooled fast reactor called the Swedish Advanced Lead Reactor (SEALER), Blykalla aims to provide for a future with 100% clean energy. Their goal is to construct and deploy a thousand SMRs, which would produce close to 500 TWh of clean electricity annually, thereby avoiding 0.5 gigatons of C02 from carbon-based energy production. That would save 1% of global carbon emissions every year.
As well as being used to supply electricity and heating, the SEALER will be used to decarbonise various industrial processes, such as the production of hydrogen, hydrotreated vegetable oil (a diesel-like fuel that can be produced without fossil resources by processing renewable waste lipids), syngas (or synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide which may contain some carbon dioxide and methane and that can be used to produce ammonia or methanol, or as a fuel), and biochar (a charcoal and carbon-rich material produced from organic sources rather than fossil fuels which can be used to sequester carbon or improve soil).
Blykalla leverages the Dardel system at PDC for computationally demanding simulations to support efficient and robust evaluation and optimisation of reactor designs, benefitting from the advanced computational capacity that outpaces other approaches like simplified modelling, sequential processing, or working with smaller servers, thereby allowing for faster and more complex simulations.
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