Advanced Regenerator Media For Industrial And Solar Thermal Applications

The presented advanced composite salt/ceramic thermal energy storage (TES) media concept has the potential of using phase change materials (PCM) via direct contact heat exchange and, therefore, the potentialof significant storage capacity improvement and cost reduction. It opens the windows for new industrial and solar thermal applications. Lab scale materials of Na-Ba-CO3/MgO and of Na2SO4/SiO2 have been successfully developed. With the silicia composite manufacturing in technical scale has been started in cooperation with a German ceramic producer.