Stabilization of the outflow temperature of a packed-bed thermal energy storage by combining rocks with phase change materials

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 316-320

  Zanganeh, Giw ^a   Commerford, Mark ^a   Haselbacher, Andreas ^a   Pedretti, Andrea ^b   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Airlight Energy Manufacturing SA   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Concentrated solar power; Latent heat; Packed bed; Phase change material; Sensible heat; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

HEAT STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; PACKED BEDS; SOLAR ENERGY; STABILIZATION; THERMAL ENERGY;

CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; CONCENTRATED SOLAR THERMAL POWER; ENERGY CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; SENSIBLE HEAT; SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGES; STORAGE VOLUMES; TEMPERATURE DROPS; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 84901939581     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.05.020     Document Type: Article

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