Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2022, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (5): 54-60.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2021-0427

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Study on thermophysical properties of solar salt composites doped with nanoparticles

ZHANG Yue1,2,3(),WANG Min1,2,LI Jinli1,2,ZHAO Youjing1,2,WANG Huaiyou1,2   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources,Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xining 810008,China
    2.Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province
    3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Received:2021-07-14 Online:2022-05-10 Published:2022-05-31

Abstract:

In concentrating solar energy system,molten salt can be regarded as good heat storage material with the characteristics of low cost,safe use and low saturated vapor pressure.Reasonable improvement of its thermal properties can realize the efficient utilization of solar energy.Doping nanoparticles can improve the heat storage and transfer performance of molten salt.In previous work,nano alumina(NA2) was doped into solar salt(SS,60% NaNO3+40% KNO3,mass ratio) by high?temperature static melting method to obtain nanofluids(NA2-SS,N2S) with high specific heat capacity.On this basis,nano?graphite powder(GP) and NA2 were simultaneously doped into SS(NA2-GP-SS,N2GS) by the same method.The specific heat and thermal conductivity of the system were measured by differential scanning calorimetry and transient plane heat source method.The results showed that the optimized sample was N2GS-4,its specific heat was 21.79% higher than the original SS,and thermal conductivity was increased by 20.69%,which had excellent thermal stability at high temperature.N2GS-4,as a kind of nitrate based nanocomposite thermal storage material,had a broad application prospect in thermal energy storage system due to its high thermal storage and heat transfer performance.

Key words: solar salt, nanofluids, specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, nanocomposites

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