Thermal and mechanical properties of nitrate thermal storage salts in the solid-phase

Solar Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2897-2911

  Iverson, Brian D ^a   Broome, Scott T ^a   Kruizenga, Alan M ^b   Cordaro, Joseph G ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrate salt; Solid phase; Thermal and mechanical property; Thermal storage

Indexed keywords

BRAZILIAN TEST; ENERGY COLLECTION; INDIRECT TENSILE TEST; LATENT HEAT OF FUSION; LIQUIDUS TEMPERATURE; MOLTEN SALT; NITRATE SALTS; PEAK STRESS; PHASE CHANGE; POISSON'S RATIO; SOLID-PHASE; SOLIDIFICATION TEMPERATURE; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL STORAGE; UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELASTIC MODULI; ENERGY TRANSFER; FUSED SALTS; HEAT STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; NITRATES; POISSON RATIO; SPECIFIC HEAT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FREEZING; HEAT TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NITRATE; SALT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TENSILE STRESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84865760047     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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