Thermal storage with molten salt is considered to be an important subsystem for solar thermal power stations due to the fluctuation of sunshine over time. A molten salt thermal storage tank, in which the fluid is stratified in temperature with “hot” on the upper level and “cold” in the...

In a solar thermal power tower system, a molten salt tube receiver is a significant component. However, the tube flow performance is different with other tubes, half the circumference of the tube is heated with a different heat flux and half that circumference is insulated. As the properties of...

This paper investigates the interaction between the heat transfer performance and the thermal efficiency of a molten salt receiver used in the solar power tower plant. A test-bed is built, and a series of experiments of heat transfer enhancement for two types of molten salt receiver tubes,...