Thermal energy storage units for solar electric power plants
Abstract
Several types of heat storage units for solar power plants with thermodynamic cycles of energy conversion are examined, including specific-heat units (particularly water-vapor devices), thermochemical units, and phase-change units. The dependence of specific capital costs for heat storage units upon time of operation is discussed, and particular consideration is give to types of connections of specific-heat units into the thermal circuit of a power plant, and to a phase-change unit that uses a heat pipe for internal heat transport.
- Publication:
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Geliotekhnika
- Pub Date:
- 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982Gelio...5...27G
- Keywords:
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- Heat Storage;
- Solar Thermal Electric Power Plants;
- Storage Batteries;
- Heat Pipes;
- Phase Change Materials;
- Solar Generators;
- Storage Tanks;
- Thermodynamic Cycles;
- Energy Production and Conversion