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Innovative Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Solution for Baseload Power Phase 1 Final Report

Description: The primary purpose of this project is to develop and validate an innovative, scalable phase change salt thermal energy storage (TES) system that can interface with Infinia’s family of free-piston Stirling engines (FPSE). This TES technology is also appropriate for Rankine and Brayton power converters. Solar TES systems based on latent heat of fusion rather than molten salt temperature differences, have many advantages that include up to an order of magnitude higher energy storage density, much… more
Date: May 15, 2013
Creator: Qiu, Songgang
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Free displacer and Ringbom displacer for a Malone refrigerator

Description: Malone refrigeration uses a liquid near its critical point (instead of the customary gas) as the working fluid in a Stirling, Brayton, or similar regenerative or recuperative cycle. Thus far, we have focused on the Stirling cycle, to avoid the difficult construction of the high-pressure-difference counterflow recuperator required for a Brayton machine. Our first Malone refrigerator used liquid propylene (C{sub 3}H{sub 6}) in a double-acting 4-cylinder Stirling configuration. First measurements … more
Date: May 1, 1994
Creator: Swift, G. W. & Brown, A. O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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