Preparation and Heat Transfer/Thermal Storage Properties of High-Temperature Molten Nitrate Salts

Abstract:

The thermal stability of molten salts, operating temperature range and latent heat of melting for the molten salts at high temperature have been studied in the present investigation. The multi-component molten salts composed of purified potassium nitrate, purified sodium nitrate were prepared by statical mixing method [1]. The stability experiments were carried out at 500 to 600°C, and the experimental result showed that the purified nitrate molten salts performed better high-temperature thermal stability and its optimum operating temperature was increased from 500°C to 550°C. DSC analysis indicated that the purified nitrate molten had a lower melting point and a higher phase change latent heat. The melting point of purified binary nitrate molten salts was sharp decreased to 225.2°C and latent heat of melting for molten salts was also reduced from 78.41J/g to 81.15J/g compared with unpurified nitrate salts. Besides, the change in the concentration of impurities by analyzing in the binary molten salts, and combination of XRD test results can be found that the degree of degradation reduce and improve the thermal efficiency of the storage of binary molten salts by purified sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 814)
• Pages: 60-64
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.814.60
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: Hong Tao Zhang, You Jing Zhao, Jing Li Li, Li Jie Shi, Min Wang*
• Keywords: Molten Nitrate Salts, Purification, Solar Energy Utilization, Thermal Stability

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