Overview of molten salt storage systems and material development for solar thermal power plants

World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 837-844

  Bauer, Thomas ^a   Breidenbach, Nils ^a   Pfleger, Nicole ^a   Laing, Doerte ^a   Eck, Markus ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; DESIGN STAGE; DYNAMIC THERMOGRAVIMETRY; MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLTEN SALT; NITRATE SALTS; PARTIAL OXYGEN PRESSURES; SALT COMPOSITION; SALT FORMULATIONS; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; STATIC MEASUREMENTS; STORAGE SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

HEAT STORAGE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FUSED SALTS;

EID: 84871538857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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