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CEA ASSESSMENT OF THE SULPHUR-IODINE CYCLE FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
Besides honouring its national and international commitments, CEA will therefore reduce its
efforts pertaining to the sulphur-iodine cycle, focusing on specific points that could significantly
impact investment cost. CEA will welcome critical analysis of its analysis from international partners,
and maintains a scientific watch in order to integrate progress made by world-wide research in its
future updated assessments of the sulphur-iodine cycle.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the CEA teams that have been part of the sulphur-iodine cycle
assessment and whose work has been summarised in this paper, and in particular T. Advocat, P. Anzieu,
P. Aujollet, F. Balbaud, A. Berjon, J.-M. Borgard, N. Brijou-Mokrani, X. Carnet, S. Colette Maatouk,
L. Cachon, M. Comte, A. Darwiche, V. Dauvois, V. Delanne, P. Deloffre, C. Desgranges, D. Doizi,
J. Duhamet, P. Fauvet, J.-P. Féraud, J.-L. Flèche, T. Gilardi, S. Goldstein, B. Gwinner, N. Haquet, M. Hélie,
O. Hercher, J. de Lamare, C. Lamouroux, B. Larousse, A. Le Duigou, F. Le Naour, M. Lecomte, J. Leybros,
J. Livet, V. Lorentz, V. Lorin, P. Lovera, C. Maillault, C. Mansilla, L. Martinelli, D. Mas, P. Mauchien,
P. Pierrard, C. Moulin, G. Moutiers, D. Ode, C. Poinssot, S. Poitou, A. Ponchin, C. Richet, J.-C. Robin,
R. Robin, G. Rodriguez, G. Roehrich, J.L. Roujou, L. Salmon, A. Saturnin, M. Tabarant, A. Terlain, X-T. Vu
and F. Werkoff.
Stimulating and fruitful collaborations and discussions with national (in particular O. Baudoin,
V. Gerbaud, M.K. Hadj-Kali, J-M. Hartmann, X. Joulia, P. Floquet and S. Dechelotte) and international
partners (in particular R. Allen, K. Bae, G. Besenbruch, K. Bhanja, L. Brown, S. Brutti, R. Buckingham,
A. Buenaventura, J. Cedillo Rojas, G. Cerri, C. Corgnale, D. De Lorenzo Manzano, G. De Maria,
R. Devonshire, M.T. Dominguez, R. Elder, R. Evans, B. Ewan, F. Gelbard, A. Giovannelli, B. Hewakandamby,
R. Hino, R. Jeans, S. Kasahara, J. Kolts, S. Kubo, S. Kung, N. Mayekar, M. Minocha, N. Monnerie,
R. Moore, J. O’Connell, K. Onuki, S. Mohan, A. Noglik, A. Orden Martinez, P. Pickard, G. Priestman,
V. Ramos Sanchez, M. Roeb, B. Russ, N. Sakaba, C. Salvini, C. Sattler, M. Schmitz, C. Sink, V.K. Tangri
and Y.J. Shin) is also gratefully acknowledged.
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