Binary and ternary nitrate solar heat transfer fluids

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Coscia, Kevin ^a   Elliott, Tucker ^b   Mohapatra, Satish ^a   Oztekin, Alparslan ^a   Neti, Sudhakar ^a  

^a Dynalene Inc   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETERS; EUTECTIC COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GIBBS ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GIBBS MODELS; HIGH MELTING POINT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE STABILITY; IN-PHASE; LIQUIDUS; SALT SYSTEMS; SOLAR HEAT; SOLAR THERMAL POWER; TERNARY MIXTURES; THERMALLY STABLE;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EUTECTICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING POINT; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 84872108422     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4023026     Document Type: Article

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