Increasing the Collaboration on Thermal Energy Storage Systems in SolarPACES TCP

Current Activities in the TES Working Group

Abstract

This paper presents, mainly, the just recently launched collaboration topics in the Thermal Energy Storage Working Group (TES WG) of the SolarPACES task III. These topics are four: one dealing with the main issues related to molten salt loops, like for example, with the reliability of equipment and instrumentation used in this type of hydraulic loops; another in relation to TES tanks issues, like for example, the identification of failures at high temperature and solutions to implement in the tank design; another focussed on corrosion issues of structural materials used in molten salt loops and on how different coatings can be used for that, and finally another topic focussed on the used of TES not only by storing energy of a CST plant but of other non-dispatchable renewables, like PV or wind, in a Carnot battery.