Design of a 100 MWh(th) packed-bed thermal energy storage
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Date
2014
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Conference Paper
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Abstract
A thermal energy storage (TES) system was designed based on a packed bed of rocks as storing material and air as heat transfer fluid. A pilot-scale 6.5 MWhth TES unit was built and tested. A dynamic numerical heat transfer and fluid flow model was developed and experimentally validated with measurements obtained from the pilot-scale TES unit. The simulation model is applied to design an industrial-scale 100 MWhth TES unit for a solar power plant currently under construction in Morocco.
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Proceedings of the SolarPACES 2013 International Conference
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Volume
49
Pages / Article No.
1071 - 1077
Publisher
Elsevier
Event
International Conference on Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (SolarPACES 2013)
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Packed bed; Solar thermal storage; Concentrated solar power; CSP; Sensible heat; Air
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03530 - Steinfeld, Aldo (emeritus) / Steinfeld, Aldo (emeritus)