Molten-salt power towers: Newly commercial concentrating solar storage

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 504-515

  Dunn, Rebecca I ^a   Hearps, Patrick J ^b   Wright, Matthew N ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Beyond Zero Emissions   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central receivers; concentrating solar power (CSP); energy storage; molten salt; power towers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY STORAGE; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STEAM ENGINEERING; TOWERS;

CENTRAL RECEIVERS; CONCENTRATING SOLAR; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; MOLTEN SALT; PARABOLIC TROUGH CONCENTRATORS; POWER TOWERS; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE SOURCES;

FUSED SALTS;

EID: 84856233418     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2163739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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