A New Phase Change Material Based on Potassium Nitrate with Silica and Alumina Nanoparticles for Thermal Energy Storage

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chieruzzi, Manila ^a   Miliozzi, Adio ^b   Crescenzi, Tommaso ^b   Torre, Luigi ^a   Kenny, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heat capacity; Molten salt; Nanocomposite; Nanofluid; Nanoparticles; Phase change materials; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; DISPERSIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ENERGY STORAGE; FUSED SALTS; HEAT STORAGE; MIXING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NITRATES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SILICA; SPECIFIC HEAT; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ALUMINA NANOPARTICLE; CONCENTRATING SOLAR; DIRECT SYNTHESIS METHOD; MOLTEN SALT; NANOFLUIDS; PHASE CHANGE TEMPERATURE; POTASSIUM NITRATE; SILICA NANOPARTICLES;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 84933497424     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0984-2     Document Type: Article

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