Thermal conductivities and characteristics of ternary eutectic chloride/expanded graphite thermal energy storage composites

Applied Energy

Volumn 148, Issue , 2015, Pages 87-92

  Tian, Heqing ^a   Wang, Weilong ^a   Ding, Jing ^a   Wei, Xiaolan ^b   Song, Ming ^b   Yang, Jianping ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Expanded graphite; Ternary eutectic chloride; Thermal conductivity; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ENERGY STORAGE; EUTECTICS; GRAPHITE; HEAT STORAGE; LATENT HEAT; LIQUIDS; MELTING; MELTING POINT; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

EXPANDED GRAPHITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; MASS PERCENTAGE; PHASE CHANGE LATENT HEAT; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; SOLID COMPOSITES; TERNARY EUTECTICS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CHLORIDE; COMPOSITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAPHITE; HEAT CAPACITY; POWER PLANT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 84925452029     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.03.020     Document Type: Article

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