The Effects of Nanoparticle Augmentation of Nitrate Thermal Storage Materials for Use in Concentrating Solar Power Applications

The Department of Energy funded a project to determine if the specific heat of thermal energy storage materials could be improved by adding nanoparticles. The standard thermal energy storage materials are molten salts. The chosen molten salt was a sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate eutectic, comme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Betts, Matthew
Other Authors: Schuller, Michael
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
Subjects:
DSC
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9118