High-temperature solid-media thermal energy storage for solar thermal power plants

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 516-524

  Laing, Doerte ^a   Bahl, Carsten ^b   Bauer, Thomas ^a   Fiss, Michael ^a   Breidenbach, Nils ^a   Hempel, Matthias ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Technical Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concrete; parabolic trough power plant; sensible heat; thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE AGGREGATES; CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETES; COST REDUCTION; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; PRECAST CONCRETE; STORAGE (MATERIALS); THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; HEAT TRANSFER STRUCTURES; HIGH TEMPERATURE STORAGE; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PARABOLIC TROUGH POWER PLANTS; SENSIBLE HEAT; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; SOLID SENSIBLE HEATS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84856219824     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2154290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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