...Melissa A. Messenger; Casey J. Troxler; Isabel Melendez; Thomas B. Freeman; Nicholas Reed; Rafael M. Rodriguez; Sandra K. S. Boetcher Phase-change materials (PCMs) can be used to develop thermal energy storage systems as they absorb large amount of latent heat nearly at a constant temperature when...

... manufacturing particle-to-sCO 2 heat exchanger enhanced heat transfer solar energy thermal energy storage Solar Energy Technologies Program 10.13039/100006115 DE-EE0009377 Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 )-based Brayton cycle has the potential for higher efficiency (>50...

... transfer for (a) the charging and discharging process of thermal energy storage and (b) the two-stage heat treatment of metal with an in situ heat recovery process. The overall system efficiency, including heat recovery, heat storage, and heat transfer, is found to be 24%. Thus, the SCF system can serve...

... and fossil fuel power plants are phased out to meet carbon-neutral utility targets. Current energy storage methods based on pumped storage hydropower or batteries have many limitations. Thermal energy storage (TES) has unique advantages in scale and siting flexibility to provide grid-scale storage capacity...

... Demonstration Roadmap,” NREL/TP-5500-67464 , pp. 1 – 140 . [2] Ma , Z. , Glatzmaier , G. , and Mehos , M. , 2014 , “ Fluidized Bed Technology for Concentrating Solar Power With Thermal Energy Storage ,” ASME J. Sol. Energy Eng. , 136 ( 3 ), p. 031014 . 10.1115/1.4027262, [3...

... onservation . 08 09 2019 28 12 2019 29 12 2019 22 01 2020 thermal energy storage phase change material paraffin expanded perlite building energy heat transfer storage The demand for energy is rising continuously, in every corner of the world, because of economic...

... 2019 thermal energy storage thermal comfort phase change material passive cooling energy savings in building air conditioning building cooling simulation storage The energy requirement for residential buildings is about 40% of the global energy requirement. The thermal comfort...

...Hermes Chirino; Ben Xu Compared to solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar power (CSP) can store excessive solar thermal energy, extend the power generation, and levelize the mismatch between the demand and supply. Thermal energy storage (TES) system filled with phase change material (PCM) is a key...

... thermal power plant thermal energy storage solar field cost molten salt Driven by the increasing activities in CSP technology within the last years, LF collector systems have been developed as a technical alternative to PT collector systems. While LF have been designed for lower temperature...

...Brian D. Iverson; Stephen J. Bauer; Scott M. Flueckiger thermocline thermal energy storage concentrating solar power solar energy Molten-salt thermocline tanks are a thermal storage technology for use in concentrating solar power plants where sensible energy in the liquid salt...

.... Editor: Gilles Flamant. 21 06 2012 10 03 2014 A generalized modeling method is introduced and used to evaluate thermal energy storage (TES) performance. The method describes TES performance metrics in terms of three efficiencies: first-law efficiency, second-law efficiency...

... , A. , Dolado , P. , Zalba , B. , and Cabeza , L. F. , 2010 , “ State of the Art on High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for Power Generation. Part 1—Concepts, Materials and Modellization ,” Renewable Sustainable Energy Rev. , 14 , pp. 31 – 55 . 10.1016/j.rser.2009.07.035 [2] Medrano...

.... Assoc. Editor: Rainer Tamme. 26 01 2012 07 01 2013 Cost and volume savings are some of the advantages offered by the use of latent heat thermal energy storage (TES). Metallic phase change materials (PCMs) have high thermal conductivity, which relate to high charging and discharging...

..., 2012. Assoc. Editor: Manuel Romero Alvarez. 23 11 2011 06 05 2012 The thermal stability of a molten LiNaK carbonate salt, potentially suitable for thermal energy storage, was studied up to a temperature of 1000 °C. The salt investigated was the eutectic Li 2 CO 3 –Na 2 CO 3 –K 2 CO...

... to Solar Thermal Storage Tanks ,” ASME J. Sol. Energy Eng. , 114 , pp. 175 – 181 . 10.1115/1.2930002 24 01 2011 26 08 2011 29 11 2011 29 11 2011 heat exchangers natural convection numerical analysis solar power tanks (containers) thermal energy storage transient...

... thermal energy storage solar cooling absorption chiller data centers cooling Data centers support business processes, information management, and communications functions in nearly every sector of the economy. It is estimated that the information technology (IT) sector consumed about 61...

... characterization of thermal stratification became well-known [( 16 17 18 19 20 21 )]. In general, however, the First Law concerns on different thermal energy storage processes are overlooked in a purely Second Law based characterization scheme. For example, the preoccupation with ensuring high quality...

... focused on the production of electricity integrating CO 2 capture and storage technologies such as precombustion [( 2 3 )], postcombustion [( 4 5 )], and oxy-fuel CO 2 capture strategies [( 6 7 )]. solar power stations solar radiation thermal energy storage 13 09 2010 07 04...

... are in good agreement, confirming the maturity of existing design tools. 28 01 2011 10 05 2011 28 07 2011 28 07 2011 heat losses solar power stations thermal energy storage TES thermal energy storage heat storage regenerator solar central receiver power plant...

... Bradshaw , R. W. , Cordaro , J. G. , and Siegel , N. P. , 2009 , “ Molten Nitrate Salt Development for Thermal Energy Storage in Parabolic Trough Solar Power Systems ,” ASME Proceedings of Energy Sustainability 2009 . 15 Cordaro , J. G. , and Bradshaw , R. W. , 2010 , “ Low...