Alejandro Calderón, Anabel Palacios, Camila Barreneche, Mercè Segarra, Cristina Prieto, Alfonso Rodriguez-Sanchez, A.Inés Fernández
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.107
Applied Energy, 2018, Vol 213, Pages 100-112
Quartile Q1, Impact 8.848
Concentrated solar power (CSP) solar towers technology have the great advantage over other renewable energy sources since energy storage is feasible for this type of plant.
In addition, there is the possibility that the heat transfer fluid (HTF) can be also used as thermal energy storage (TES) material, which is the case of solid particles. A lot of development efforts are under way for achieving commercial direct solar solid-particle systems.
Solid particle systems for transferring high temperature thermal energy are purposed for increasing the efficiency of these systems when converting heat into electric power.
This review recapitulates the concept of these systems taking into account the main receiver designs, particle conveyance, particle storage systems and components, the heat exchanger, and the main challenges that must be overcome to split this technology as a commercial one, especially from the materials availability point of view.
This review summarizes the actual status of the use of solid particles for TES and as HTF for CSP Tower, and condenses all the available information and classifies them considering the main functional parts and remarking the current research in each part as well as the future challenging issues.
Funding
The research leading this project has received funding from the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007- 2013) under Grant agreement No. PIRSES-GA-2013-610692 (INNOSTORAGE) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 657466 (INPATH-TES). This work has been partially funded by the Spanish government (ENE2015-64117-C5-1-R (MINECO/FEDER) and ENE2015-64117-C5-2-R (MINECO/FEDER)), a Juan de la Cierva post-doc fellowship 2014 (FJCI-2014-22886) and CONACYT from Mexico research grant 546692.
Research category: Energy
Doctoral Thesis: Study of solid particle materials as high temperature Thermal Energy Storage and Heat Transfer Fluid for Concentrating Solar Power