Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 12, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en12101943
Keywords
molten salt; energy storage; temperature distribution; heat losses
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- Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute of State Grid Corporation of China [SGRI-DL-71-16-081]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB0903603]
- Qinghai Science and Technology Project [2017-GX-A3]
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Two-tank molten salt heat storage systems are considered to be the most mature thermal storage technology in solar thermal power plants. As the key part of the system, the thermal performance of molten salt tanks is of great importance. An experimental thermal storage system with a new type of molten salt as a thermal energy storage medium has been built to investigate the temperature distribution of molten salt inside the tank during the cooling process from 550 degrees C to 180 degrees C. The temperature distribution of the salt was obtained, which reveals that temperature stratification appears at the bottom of the tank within the height of 200 mm. The position, with the maximum temperature difference of 16.1 degrees C, is at the lower edges of the molten salt storage tank. The temperature distribution was also measured to deepen our understanding of the insulation foundation, which shows that the maximum temperature appears at the middle upper part of the foundation and decreases radially. The heat losses of the molten salt tank were calculated by the classical equation, from which it was found that the heat loss decreases from 3.65 kWh to 1.82 kWh as the temperature of the molten salt drops from 550 degrees C to 310 degrees C. The effect of temperature stratification on the heat losses of the tank's bottom was also analyzed.
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