Why the study?
The application of molten salts in solar thermal energy storage is limited by cloudy days and winter when weak concentrated solar radiation cannot melt the salt.
Population
Solar tower power plant in Nottingham, the United Kingdom and Dezhou, China
Comparison
Low-melting-point salt mixture vs pure salt as heat transfer fluid and energy storage medium
Design
Case study and molecular simulation
Authors
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Broadens molten salt viability for low-radiation days; leaves open large-scale stability and performance validation.
Mixing pure salts to create a low-melting-point eutectic increases the yearly operation time of solar power plants.
Ljungqvist et al. (2022) studied this question.
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