Cristina Prieto

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the current commercial thermal energy storage systems used in solar thermal power plants: steam accumulators and molten salts, and assess the economic value of the TES system by the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) calculation, an economic performance metric commonly used in power generation in order to compare cost of electricity among different power generation sources.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of thermal energy storage (TES) for solar power plants is presented, and the main conclusion of the review is that the calcium carbonate cycle is the cycle with most experimentation behind it to infer that it could be viable and should thus be attempted at a research plant scale once a reactivation cycle can be designed.

TL;DR: In this article, a cascade type phase change materials (PCM) energy storage system for solar thermal electricity plants with its technical assessment is presented, using four buckets with the PCM organized based on melting temperature and the latent energy of the materials.

TL;DR: In this article, a corrosion testing device (CTD) was designed to evaluate corrosion behavior of structural materials inside high temperature nitrate salts storage tanks in operation, and A516 Gr70 carbon steel was evaluated at different exposures times by using the CTD in the TES-PS10 pilot plant.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes the actual status of the use of solid particles for thermal energy storage and thermal transfer fluid (HTF) for CSP tower, and condenses all the available information and classifies them considering the main functional parts and remarking the current research in each part as well as the future challenging issues.