Molten salts in the light of corrosion mitigation strategies and embedded with nanoparticles to enhance the thermophysical properties for CSP plants

A Ibrahim, H Peng, A Riaz, MA Basit, U Rashid… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solar power has prominently been showing potential as a means to sustainable,
dispatchable and affordable source of energy while attracting huge attention for scientists as …

Thermal energy storage in solar power plants: A review of the materials, associated limitations, and proposed solutions

F Alnaimat, Y Rashid - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Solar energy is the most viable and abundant renewable energy source. Its intermittent
nature and mismatch between source availability and energy demand, however, are critical …

Heat transfer and friction of molten salt and supercritical CO2 flowing in an airfoil channel of a printed circuit heat exchanger

HY Shi, MJ Li, WQ Wang, Y Qiu, WQ Tao - International Journal of Heat and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Airfoil printed circuit heat exchanger (PCHE) is considered as one of the competitive
candidates in the 3rd generation of concentrating solar power (CSP) plant, where the molten …

High-temperature corrosion of a nickel-based alloy in a molten chloride environment–The effect of thermal and chemical purifications

A Mortazavi, Y Zhao, M Esmaily, A Allanore… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is currently an ever-increasing demand for higher process efficiencies in next
generation (Gen3) concentrating solar power (CSP). Higher process efficiencies may be …

Effect of composition and temperature on microstructure and thermophysical properties of LiCl-CaCl2 molten salt based on machine learning potentials

Y **e, M Bu, Y Zhang, G Lu - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
LiCl-CaCl 2 molten salt is a promising candidate for storing and converting energy and
capturing CO 2. The machine learning potential molecular dynamics simulations have high …

[HTML][HTML] Preliminary characterization and thermal evaluation of a direct contact cascaded immiscible inorganic salt/high-density polyethylene as moderate temperature …

BM Suyitno, R Anggrainy, N Plamonia, RA Rahman - Results in Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work assesses the direct contact cascaded immiscible phase change material
(PCM) for solar heat storage systems (SHSS) in water heating applications. The direct …

Elucidating Ionic Correlations Beyond Simple Charge Alternation in Molten MgCl2–KCl Mixtures

F Wu, S Roy, AS Ivanov, SK Gill… - The journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The development of technologies for nuclear reactors based on molten salts has seen a big
resurgence. The success of thermodynamic models for these hinges in part on our ability to …

Impact on thermophysical properties of solar salt with different concentrations of SiC nanoparticles for thermal energy storage system

N Pradeep, U Nithiyanantham, KS Reddy - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Enhancement of thermophysical properties of molten salt-based nanofluids is essential to
reduce the geometric size and increase the energetic-exergetic efficiency of the thermal …

NaNO3-KNO3-KCl/K2CO3 with the elevated working temperature for CSP application: Phase diagram calculation and machine learning

L Sang, X Lv, Y Wu - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Mixed nitrates with relative low melting point have widely been used as thermal storage
medium in the concentrated solar power stations. However, their maximum working …

Enhanced thermal stability and excellent electrochemical and photocatalytic performance of needle-like form of zinc-phthalocyanine

BR Vasiljević, JR Prekodravac, MS Ranđelović… - Ceramics …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study proposes enhanced thermal stability and excellent electrochemical and
photocatalytic performance of hierarchical structure of zinc-phthalocyanine (ZnPc) samples …