System modeling for a supercritical thermal energy storage system

ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES 2012, Collocated with the ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn , Issue PARTS A AND B, 2012, Pages 691-698

  Tse, Louis ^a   Ganapathi, Gani ^b   Wirz, Richard ^a   Lavine, Adrienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DESIGN; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FUEL CELLS; HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TANKS (CONTAINERS); THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TURBINES;

CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER PLANT; EXTERNAL HEAT EXCHANGERS; LATENT HEAT OF VAPORIZATION; SOLAR THERMAL TECHNOLOGY; SUPERCRITICAL TEMPERATURES; SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

STORAGE (MATERIALS);

EID: 84900395552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ES2012-91001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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