Internal Insulation and Corrosion Control of Molten Chloride Storage Tanks

Conference · Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2020

OSTI ID:1606313

Gage, Samuel  ^[1]; Turchi, Craig S  ^[1]; Effenberger, Reinhard ^[2]; Rigby, Joe ^[3]; Henry, Bill ^[3]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Israeli Chemicals Ltd, Israel
3. JT Thorpe and Son, Richmond, California

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).

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1606313
• Report Number(s): NREL/PO-5500-75005
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at SolarPACES 2019, 1-4 October 2019, Daegu, South Korea
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
25 ENERGY STORAGE
CSP
Gen3
molten salt
thermal storage tank