Cross-Cutting CFD Support for Efficient Design of a Molten Salt Electric Heater for Flexible Concentrating Solar Power Plants

Overview of Molten Salt Storage Systems and Material Development for Solar Thermal Power Plants

This paper gives an overview of thermal energy storage (TES) systems based on molten salts. It summarizes stateof-the-art molten salt TES systems. Storage systems in a research stage, such as the thermocline and floating barrier concepts, are also discussed. The paper summarizes previous work on molten salt material investigations at DLR. Experimental results of novel salt formulations with mel...

Cyclic Operation of Molten-Salt Thermal Energy Storage in Thermoclines for Solar Power Plants

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

A Novel Modeling of Molten-Salt Heat Storage Systems in Thermal Solar Power Plants

Many thermal solar power plants use thermal oil as heat transfer fluid, and molten salts as thermal energy storage. Oil absorbs energy from sun light, and transfers it to a water-steam cycle across heat exchangers, to be converted into electric energy by means of a turbogenerator, or to be stored in a thermal energy storage system so that it can be later transferred to the water-steam cycle. Th...

Design of new molten salt thermal energy storage material for solar thermal power plant

In order to obtain molten salt with lower melting point, higher thermal stability and reduced cost relative to previously available materials, a variety of molten salt mixtures of alkali nitrates are investigated by experimental methods. However, since measurements are generally expensive and time-consuming, it is of interest to be able to predict melting point and the component of multi-compon...