Thermal Storage Glass Development
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Halotechnics, Inc.develops novel high temperature fluids and phase change materials, and designs modular salt storage tanks, as well as full thermal systems, for waste heat capture, grid-scale electricity storage, concentrated solar power, and other energy and efficiency applications. Using combinatorial chemistry techniques, Halotechnics has developed a variety of salts and other oxide compositions. Halotechnics’s molten fluids product line offers salt and oxide glass products that can be used in temperature ranges spanning from 50°C to 1200°C. The properties of these various materials are appropriate for both sensible heat and latent heat thermal energy storage applications. The thermal energy stored in the materials can be converted to electricity by various methods, including direct conversion using thermoelectric generation, or indirectly, by heating steam and running a turbine. LBL has materials characterization equipment that is useful for Halotechnics to achieve its materials development goals. Through the CalCharge agreement with LBL, Halotechnics worked with an LBL principal investigator to access this equipment, and to jointly design experimental procedures for unusual measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Halotechnics, Inc, Emeryville, CA (United States); California Clean Energy Fund (CalCef), Oakland, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1429056
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL--2001131
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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