Phase Change Material Slurry for Medium Temperature Heat Storage: Numerical comparison between a slurry model and a shell and tube packed bed model

Concentrated solar technologies have been successfully used to collect solar irradiance and transform it into useful heat for electricity generation. A problem in these systems is often that a mismatch between input and output is present due to variable solar irradiance and energy demand. To compensate for this mismatch storage is utilized to...

Development of a Turbine Concept for Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles

Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) is considered as a working fluid in future Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) applications<br/>to increase the efficiency of the power cycle. Due to the limited experience, the turbine of an sCO2 power cycle is in literature referred to as the component with the highest risk. In this thesis, a design methodology will be...