Molten Salt Database Balaji Veeraraghavan Research Scientist NCSA

Molten Salt Database Balaji Veeraraghavan Research Scientist NCSA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Computational Science

Starting Point • Molten Salt Database in Excel Spread Sheet form • Bibliography Database in Filemaker Pro form • Eutectic Database in Filemaker Pro form University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Computational Science

Project Goals • • • Save the database Move database access to web Provide facility for updating the database Presentation format ? What other functionality are needed? University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Computational Science

Data Organization Record Property Record Number Data Components Property Name Symbol Units Data Uncertainties Mole Percent Coefficients (I-V) Low Temperature High Temperature Data Point Data Value Temperature Iso Point Iso Value MPI Isotherm Species Uncertainty Best Value Accuracy SEQ 6. Sig. Figures Standard Deviation Precision Method Uncertainty University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Method Measurement Method Equation Type Equation Format Compound Type References Reference Data Source Ref. Additional Ref. Method Ref. Comments Heading Comment R Value MP. Comment National Computational Science

Molten Salt Organization University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Computational Science

First Step Excel Spread Sheet ASCII Text XML File XSL Style. Sheet Web Browser University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Computational Science

Next Steps • Connect bibliography • Different Style sheets for different presentations • Search Engine (systems, data values, property) • Entering Data into Database (entering, temporary data store, authentication/validation, permanent data store, email notifications) • Where do we put the database? (NCSA, NIST, IUSTI) • Plotting Temp dependent property, phase diagram, etc. , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Computational Science