Adopting nitrate/nitrite salt mixtures as the heat transport fluid in parabolic trough power plants

Proceedings of the Energy Sustainability Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1033-1040

  Kelly, Bruce ^a   Brosseau, Doug ^b   Price, Henry ^c   Kearney, David ^d  

^a NEXANT INC   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Kearney and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANKINE CYCLE EFFICIENCY; SOLAR POWER PLANT;

NITRATES; POWER PLANTS; SALTS; SOLAR COLLECTORS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 37249026744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2007-36172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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