Integrated Thermal Energy Storage Heat Exchanger for Concentrating Solar Power Applications

Project: Research

Project Details

Description

An efficient and economical solution to charging and discharging heat from thermal energy storage (TES) media is a critical development need in order to maintain steady power production from concentrating solar power systems. This project will develop and test heat exchanger technology that can integrate with a variety of advanced TES media and systems. The performance and cost of this integrated TES will be compared to other storage technologies for possible incorporation into a Gen3 CSP Topic 1 test facility.

StatusFinished
Effective start/end date01/10/1803/31/21

Funding

  • Solar Energy Technologies Office

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