State of the art on high temperature thermal energy storage for power generation. Part 1-Concepts, materials and modellization

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-55

  Gil, Antoni ^a   Medrano, Marc ^a   Martorell, Ingrid ^a   Lázaro, Ana ^b   Dolado, Pablo ^b   Zalba, Belén ^b   Cabeza, Luisa F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classification; High temperature; Materials; Modellization; Solar power plants; Thermal energy storage (TES)

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MODELLIZATION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR THERMAL POWER GENERATION; STATE OF THE ART; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE (TES); THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; THERMAL STORAGE; THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM;

FLYWHEELS; HEAT STORAGE; NANOSENSORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMAL ENERGY;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EID: 70349530653     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2009.07.035     Document Type: Review

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