potassium nitrate molten energy storage

(PDF) Preparation and Heat Transfer/Thermal Storage Properties of High-Temperature Molten Nitrate …

Quaternary molten salts which were composed of potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite, sodium nitrate when adding 5%, 10%, 15% additive A, additive B, additive C respectively were prepared.

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Binary nitrate molten salt magnetic microcapsules modified with Fe3O4-functionalized carbon nanotubes for accelerating thermal energy storage ...

Molten salts are important media for heat transfer and thermal energy storage in concentrated solar power (CSP) system, but it has drawbacks such as poor thermal conductivity and corrosive properties.This study increases the thermal energy utilization rate and expand the range of applications for phase change materials by …

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(PDF) Preparation and Heat Transfer/Thermal Storage Properties …

In the present study, sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate and their mixture were used as the base materials, and expanded graphite (EG) with high thermal …

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Thermophysical properties of Ca(NO3)2-NaNO3-KNO3

Improvement of the corrosion properties in ternary molten nitrate salts for direct energy storage in CSP plants. Sol. Energy, 134 (2016), pp. 468-478. ... The thermal stability of molten lithium-sodium-potassium carbonate and the influence of additives on the melting point. J. Sol. Energy Eng.-Trans. ASME, 134 (2012), p. 041002.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, ... Thermal storage medium in power generation systems. Sodium and potassium nitrate salts are stored in a molten state with the solar energy collected by the heliostats at the Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant.

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Enhanced thermal energy storage of nitrate salts by silica …

The potassium nitrate salt dispersed with 20-nm silica nanoparticles achieve the highest performance improvement not only in latent heat but in specific heat …

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Hot corrosion behavior of commercial alloys in thermal energy storage ...

In CSP plants, storage of the heat from sunlight in thermal energy storage (TES) materials such as molten salts allows them to generate dispatchable power during the absence of sunlight and adds value of such power plants [2]. In commercial CSP plants, a non-eutectic salt mixture of 60 wt% sodium nitrate and 40 wt% potassium nitrate, …

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Development of new molten salts with LiNO3 and Ca(NO3)2 for energy storage in CSP plants …

CaCO 3 has a significantly higher energy density than that of molten salts, currently used as the state-of-the-art thermal energy storage system in CPS commercial plants [8,[31] [32] [33].

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Thermodynamics of corrosion products in molten nitrate salts

The stability domains of corrosion products in molten nitrate salts can be predicted by the thermodynamic E-pO 2− relationship [8, 13].To better understand the corrosion mechanism occurring in molten nitrate salt, the E-pO 2-diagram for the elements of Cr, Fe, Mn, and Ni are developed respectively. The equilibria reactions for developing …

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Thermal Stability and Performance Evaluation of Hitec Molten Salt …

The review underscores the pivotal role of HITEC molten salt in advancing thermal energy storage technologies, directly influencing the achievement of several SDGs. Discover the world''s research ...

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Real-time modeling and optimization of molten salt storage with …

This research article presents an innovative approach to enhance sustainable power generation and grid support by integrating real-time modeling and optimization with Molten Salt Energy Storage (MSES) and a …

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Molten salt chemistry in nitrate salt storage systems: Linking …

Sensible heat storage in molten nitrate salts is a key technology when it comes to thermal energy storage in combination with concentrating solar power (CSP) …

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THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF MOLTEN NITRATE SALTS …

alkali and calcium nitrate salts obtained using a micro-calorimeter. In their work, molten alkali nitrate at 350 °C was used to dissolve known amounts of anhydrous calcium nitrate. These solid-liquid mixing experiments were used to extrapolate the heat of fusion for pure calcium nitrate at 350 °C as 24 kJ/mol. [3] The true melting point of ...

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High Temperature Properties of Molten Nitrate Salt for Solar …

Molten alkali nitrates are used commercially as thermal storage fluids (HTF) for solar thermal electricity generation. Their range of operation is limited by the …

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Preparation and Thermal Properties of High-Purified …

We chose potassium nitrate (KNO 3) and sodium nitrate (NaNO 3) [19, 20]. Besides, a kind of molten salts (purified Solar Salt [NaNO 3 (60%) and purified KNO 3 (40%)]) was sufficiently stable at …

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Thermal characterization of HITEC molten salt for energy storage …

During the 1940s, the first investigations appear addressing the use of molten nitrates such as storage material in industrial systems. A patent filed in 1940 by Houdry Process Corporation, Delaware (USA), was the first to propose a mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate. The research, despite the rudimentary experimental set-up of the time ...

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Thermal-physical properties of nanoparticle-seeded nitrate molten salts …

However, their limited thermo-physical properties such as thermal conductivity, k (in the range from 0.1 to 0.6 W/m. K [ 9 ]), and specific heat capacity (cp) have prevented its wide applications. Nanoparticles have been recently proposed to solve the problem of low cp/k values of the nitrate molten salt.

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(PDF) Thermal characterization of HITEC molten salt for energy storage in solar linear concentrated technology …

J Therm Anal Calorim DOI 10.1007/s10973-015-4715-9 Thermal characterization of HITEC molten salt for energy storage in solar linear concentrated technology A. G. Fernández1,2,3 • H. Galleguillos3 • E. Fuentealba2 • F. J. …

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A review of eutectic salts as phase change energy storage …

In the context of energy storage applications in concentrated solar power (CSP) stations, molten salts with low cost and high melting point have become the most widely used PCMs [6].Moreover, solar salts (60NaNO 3 –40KNO 3, wt.%) and HEIC salts (7NaNO 3 –53KNO 3 –40NaNO 2, wt.%) have become commercially available for CSP …

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Materials | Free Full-Text | Thermal Storage of Nitrate …

In this sense, materials such as potassium nitrate (KNO 3 ), sodium nitrate (NaNO 3 ), and sodium nitrite (NaNO 2) have melting points at suitable temperatures to be used in thermal storage …

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In situ production of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in molten salt ...

In this study, TiO2 nanoparticles (average particle size 16 nm) were successfully produced in molten salt phase and were showed to significantly enhance the specific heat capacity of a binary eutectic mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate (60/40) by 5.4 % at 390 °C and 7.5 % at 445 °C for 3.0 wt% of precursors used. The objective of …

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Thermal characterization of HITEC molten salt for energy storage …

Hitec® molten salt (53% KNO 3 + 40%NaNO 2 + 7%NaNO 3 ) was chosen as storage medium for its better physico-chemical properties than the standard binary mixture of sodium and potassium nitrate.

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Corrosion resistance of protective coatings against molten nitrate ...

Molten nitrate salts are currently considered ideal candidates for both heat transfer and storage applications because of their properties. Nowadays, the best industrial compound is considered to be an alkali metal nitrate mixture composed of 60 wt.% NaNO 3 /40 wt.% KNO 3 (Solar Salt®) ( Dorcheh et al., 2016 ).

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Molten salt for advanced energy applications: A review

The primary uses of molten salt in energy technologies are in power production and energy storage. Salts remain a single-phase liquid even at very high …

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Improvement of the corrosion properties in ternary molten nitrate …

The corrosive effects of a molten nitrate mixture composed by 20% LiNO 3 + 28% NaNO 3 + 52% KNO 3 were appraised at 390 °C on a low-Cr alloy steel (T22) and a carbon steel (A1). The corrosion rates were determined using gravimetric analysis, which measures the weight gain over 2000 h in order to identify the corrosion products with …

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Corrosion performance of austenitic stainless steel SS304 in molten ...

For sensible thermal energy storage (TES) in liquids in the temperature range from 250 C to 550 C, a mixture of 60 wt% sodium nitrate (NaNO3) and 40 wt% potassium nitrate (KNO3), known as Solar ...

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Microkinetics of the reaction N O 3

Sensible thermal energy storage (TES) in molten salts is a key technology for storage of heat in the ... The partial pressures of sodium nitrite and potassium nitrate over melts of the binary ...

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Phase diagram, thermodynamic properties and long-term …

1. Introduction. Molten nitrate salts are used as heat transfer fluids (HTF) and storage media in modern concentrating solar power (CSP) plants (Bonk et al., 2018a, González-Roubaud et al., 2017, Reddy et al., 2013, Vignarooban et al., 2015) new types of line-focussing CSP plants with molten salt as heat transfer fluid the ubiquitous risk of …

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A New Phase Change Material Based on Potassium Nitrate …

Potassium Nitrate with Silica and Alumina Nanoparticles for Thermal Energy Storage Manila Chieruzzi1*, Adio Miliozzi2, Tommaso Crescenzi2, Luigi Torre1 and José M Kenny1 Abstract In this study different nanofluids with phase change behavior were developed by mixing a molten salt base fluid (KNO

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Development of new molten salts with LiNO3 and Ca(NO3)2 for energy …

The diagram shown in Fig. 1 corresponds to pure salts, and it is important to note that the commercial calcium nitrate is tetrahydrate; therefore, it is necessary to re-determine the melting point in the presence of water molecules, which was performed in the experimental portion of this research.. 1.2.Addition of LiNO 3. Another one of the most …

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Thermal-physical properties of nanoparticle-seeded nitrate molten …

For example, most of the concentrated solar thermal power plants have been integrated with sensible storage tanks, i.e., one hot tank and one cold tank to store energy up to 663 K. Considering that the melting temperature of solar salt (NaNO 3: KNO 3 with 60:40 molar ratios) is 505 K and potassium nitrate (KNO 3) is around 607 K, any of …

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