Thermodynamic assessment of EuBr2 unary and LiBr–EuBr2 and NaBr–EuBr2 binary systems

As a basis for the design and development of molten salt mixtures, thermodynamic calculations of the phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties were carried out on the EuBr2 unary and LiBr–EuBr2 and NaBr–EuBr2 binary systems over a wide temperature and composition range, respectively. The Gibbs energy of EuBr2 was evaluated using an independent polynomial to fit the experimental heat capacity, the thermodynamic parameters for each phase in the LiBr–EuBr2 and NaBr–EuBr2 systems were optimized by using available experimental information on phase diagrams. A regular substitutional solution model for the liquid phase and Neumann–Kopp rule for the stoichiometric compound LiEu2Br5 were adopted to reproduce the experimental data with reasonable excess Gibbs energy. Comparisons between the calculated phase diagrams and thermodynamic quantities show that all reliable experimental information is satisfactorily accounted for by the present thermodynamic description. Some thermodynamic properties were predicted to check the suitability of the present calculation.