Solar thermal aerogel receiver and materials therefor
Abstract
A silica aerogel having a mean pore size less than 5 nm with a standard deviation of 3 nm. The silica aerogel may have greater than 95% solar-weighted transmittance at a thickness of 8 mm for wavelengths in the range of 250 nm to 2500 nm, and a 400° C. black-body weighted specific extinction coefficient of greater than 8 m2/kg for wavelengths of 1.5 μm to 15 μm. Silica aerogel synthesis methods are described. A solar thermal aerogel receiver (STAR) may include an opaque frame defining an opening, an aerogel layer disposed in the opaque frame, with at least a portion of the aerogel layer being proximate the opening, and a heat transfer fluid pipe in thermal contact with and proximate the aerogel layer. A concentrating solar energy system may include a STAR and at least one reflector to direct sunlight to an opening in the STAR.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1805376
- Patent Number(s):
- 10889501
- Application Number:
- 16/079,172
- Assignee:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR0000471
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 02/24/2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Chen, Gang, Wang, Evelyn N., Boriskina, Svetlana, Weinstein, Lee A., Yang, Sungwoo, Bhatia, Bikramjit S., Zhao, Lin, Strobach, Elise M., Cooper, Thomas A., Bierman, David M., Huang, Xiaopeng, and Loomis, James. Solar thermal aerogel receiver and materials therefor. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web.
Chen, Gang, Wang, Evelyn N., Boriskina, Svetlana, Weinstein, Lee A., Yang, Sungwoo, Bhatia, Bikramjit S., Zhao, Lin, Strobach, Elise M., Cooper, Thomas A., Bierman, David M., Huang, Xiaopeng, & Loomis, James. Solar thermal aerogel receiver and materials therefor. United States.
Chen, Gang, Wang, Evelyn N., Boriskina, Svetlana, Weinstein, Lee A., Yang, Sungwoo, Bhatia, Bikramjit S., Zhao, Lin, Strobach, Elise M., Cooper, Thomas A., Bierman, David M., Huang, Xiaopeng, and Loomis, James. Tue .
"Solar thermal aerogel receiver and materials therefor". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1805376.
@article{osti_1805376,
title = {Solar thermal aerogel receiver and materials therefor},
author = {Chen, Gang and Wang, Evelyn N. and Boriskina, Svetlana and Weinstein, Lee A. and Yang, Sungwoo and Bhatia, Bikramjit S. and Zhao, Lin and Strobach, Elise M. and Cooper, Thomas A. and Bierman, David M. and Huang, Xiaopeng and Loomis, James},
abstractNote = {A silica aerogel having a mean pore size less than 5 nm with a standard deviation of 3 nm. The silica aerogel may have greater than 95% solar-weighted transmittance at a thickness of 8 mm for wavelengths in the range of 250 nm to 2500 nm, and a 400° C. black-body weighted specific extinction coefficient of greater than 8 m2/kg for wavelengths of 1.5 μm to 15 μm. Silica aerogel synthesis methods are described. A solar thermal aerogel receiver (STAR) may include an opaque frame defining an opening, an aerogel layer disposed in the opaque frame, with at least a portion of the aerogel layer being proximate the opening, and a heat transfer fluid pipe in thermal contact with and proximate the aerogel layer. A concentrating solar energy system may include a STAR and at least one reflector to direct sunlight to an opening in the STAR.},
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place = {United States},
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