Concentrating solar thermal heat storage using metal hydrides

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 539-549

  Harries, David N ^a,b   Paskevicius, Mark ^c   Sheppard, Drew A ^c   Price, Tobias Edward Cameron ^d   Buckley, Craig E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b EMC Solar Ltd   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy storage; hydrogen storage; solar energy; solar heating

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING; ENERGY STORAGE; HEAT STORAGE; HYDRIDES; HYDROGEN STORAGE; INVESTMENTS; METALS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITY; HYDROGEN STORAGE SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; THERMOCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE; THERMOCHEMICAL STORAGE;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84856218812     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2158509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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