Increment of specific heat capacity of solar salt with SiO2 nanoparticles

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Andreu Cabedo, Patricia ^a   Mondragon, Rosa ^a   Hernandez, Leonor ^a   Martinez Cuenca, Raul ^a   Cabedo, Luis ^a   Julia, J Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nanofluid; Solar salt; Specific heat capacity; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; HEAT STORAGE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POTASH; POTASSIUM NITRATE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SIO2 NANOPARTICLES; SODIUM NITRATE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; STORAGE (MATERIALS); THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; ENERGY STORAGE DENSITY; NANOFLUIDS; NANOPARTICLE CLUSTERS; OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURE; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE SURFACE AREA; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

SPECIFIC HEAT;

EID: 84919940869     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-582     Document Type: Article

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