Browsing by Subject "Thermal energy storage"
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(2022-12-09)This dissertation seeks to rationally design composites and develop strategies to optimize the performance of composites at system level and to identify metrics to design future composite material systems. Phase change ...
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(2017-08-10)Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants have been widely commercialized internationally for generating electricity from solar energy. Thermal energy storage (TES) systems are typically used in CSP plants to balance the ...
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(2012-05-22)Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants are used to harness solar thermal energy to generate electricity. Thermal energy storage (TES) systems enable the CSP plants to be operated during disruptions in solar energy input ...
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(2021-11-18)Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have recently been demonstrated as effective phase change materials for thermal energy storage owing to their ability to undergo thermally driven reversible martensitic transformations. NiTi SMAs ...
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(2011-08-08)The objective of this research was to measure the effect of thermal cycling on the nanoparticle distribution and specific heat of a nanocomposite material consisting of a eutectic of lithium carbonate and potassium carbonate ...
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(2023-08-09)Commercial thermal energy storage (TES) systems require consistent thermal performance over their operational lifespan. However, thermal cycling of phase change materials (PCMs) in TES composites results in volume changes ...