Spatial and temporal modeling of sub- and supercritical thermal energy storage

Solar Energy

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 402-410

  Tse, Louis A ^a   Ganapathi, Gani B ^b   Wirz, Richard E ^a   Lavine, Adrienne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrating solar power; Energy storage; Thermodynamic model; Transient behavior

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ENERGY STORAGE; HEAT STORAGE; SALTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); TANKS (CONTAINERS); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ALTERNATE APPROACHES; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER PLANT; SOLAR THERMAL TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MODELING; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE;

LOADING;

CAPITAL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENCAPSULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORAGE; THERMAL POWER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84896048841     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.02.040     Document Type: Article

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