Determining the Heat Content of Mongolian Rock Minerals: A Study of the Potential Use in Heat Storage Technology

Abstract:

One way to develop Mongolia's energy sector is to introduce new, environmentally friendly, modern technologies and provide heat supply to consumers located far from centralized provinces’ reliable sources. To reduce air pollution, there has been an urgent need to solve the problem of heating private homes. Those homes need a heating supply that does not use coal. Therefore, to meet the buildings’ heat requirements, the project has the potential to reduce air pollution by storing thermal energy in the solid phase, and using renewable energy and electricity. The research aims to study the heat storage capacity of naturally abundant rock, river rock, and iron ore rocks, and to create a heating source supply with heat storage that is compatible with them. Within this goal, the results of determining the thermal energy absorption capacity of rocks are presented in this study.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 1030)
• Pages: 111-116
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-Miz3Nl
• Online since: November 2025
• Authors: Chimed Mangaljalav*, Chimed Orshuu, Aldarmaa Chuluunbaatar
• Keywords: Heat Capacity of Rocks, Heat Storage, Solid-Phase Heat Storage Materials

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