Nitrate salts doped with CuO nanoparticles for thermal energy storage with improved heat transfer

Applied Energy

Volumn 165, Issue , 2016, Pages 225-233

  Myers, Philip D ^a,b   Alam, Tanvir E ^b   Kamal, Rajeev ^a,b   Goswami, D Y ^a,b   Stefanakos, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

HTF; PCM; Thermal conductivity; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; ENERGY STORAGE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; LATENT HEAT; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; NITRATES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; SALTS; SOLAR ENERGY; STORAGE (MATERIALS); THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; HTF; LATENT HEAT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS; OXIDATIVE ENVIRONMENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

COPPER COMPOUND; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING; NANOPARTICLE; NITRATE (INORGANIC SALT); PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STORAGE STRUCTURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 84952683772     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.11.045     Document Type: Article

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