Internal Insulation and Corrosion Control of Molten Chloride Storage Tanks

Samuel Gage, Craig Turchi, Reinhard Effenberger, Joe Rigby, Bill Henry

Research output: NRELPoster

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy Gen3 CSP program aims to develop integrated systems capable of delivering high temperature thermal energy to advanced power cycles [1]. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is leading a multi-national team to validate the potential of a chloride-based molten-salt system that uses a ternary blend of MgCl2/KCl/NaCl to provide higher temperature thermal energy storage capability (Fig. 1a). The economic viability of this concept is dependent on internally insulating the hot and cold storage tanks to enable the use of low-cost steel shells (Fig. 1b).
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NamePresented at SolarPACES 2019, 1-4 October 2019, Daegu, South Korea

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PO-5500-75005

Keywords

  • CSP
  • Gen3
  • molten salt
  • thermal storage tank

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