Design of a 100 MWhth Packed-bed Thermal Energy Storage
- Zanganeh, G.
- Pedretti, A.
- Zavattoni, S.A.
- Barbato, M.C.
- Haselbacher, A.
- Steinfeld, A.
Publication date
December 2014
DOI Publisher
A. Steinfeld. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Abstract
AbstractA 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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