Thermal testing of organic fluids for supercriticalthermal energy storage systems

ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability Collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, ES 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tse, Louis A ^a   Stopin, Antoine ^b   Ganapathi, Gani B ^c   Garcia Garibay, Miguel A ^b   Wirz, Richard E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; DECOMPOSITION PATHWAY; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; EXPLORATION OF ALTERNATIVES; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; LONG-TERM DURABILITIES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE(NMR); OPERATING TEMPERATURE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FUEL CELLS; FUSED SALTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATERIALS TESTING; MIXTURES; NAPHTHALENE; SALT DEPOSITS; SOLAR ENERGY; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COSTS;

EID: 84892973745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2013-18195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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