Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for CSP Generation

In 2008, DOE issued the Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Generation funding opportunity announcement (FOA). The following projects were selected under this competitive solicitation:

Abengoa: Reducing the Cost of Thermal Energy Storage for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants
Acciona Solar: Indirect, Dual-Media, Phase Changing Material Modular Thermal Energy Storage System
Acciona Solar: Sensible Heat, Direct, Dual-Media Thermal Energy Storage Module
City College of New York: A Novel Storage Method for CSP Plants Allowing Operation at High Temperature
General Atomics:Thermochemical Heat Storage for CSP Based on Multivalent Metal Oxides
Halotechnics: Deep Eutectic Salt Formulations Suitable as Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids
Infinia: Innovative Application of Maintenance-Free Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage for Dish Engine Systems
Lehigh University: Novel Thermal Storage Technologies for Concentrating Solar Power Generation
Terrafore: Heat Transfer and Latent Heat Storage in Inorganic Molten Salts for CSP Plants
Texas Engineering Experiment Station: Molten Salt-Carbon Nanotube Thermal Storage
University of Alabama: Novel Molten Salts Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power Generation
University of Arkansas: Development and Performance Evaluation of High Temperature Concrete for Thermal Energy Storage for Solar Power Generation
University of Connecticut: Novel Thermal Energy Storage Systems (TES) for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
US Solar Holdings: CSP Energy Storage Solutions – Multiple Technologies Compared.