First-of-its-Kind Experiment with Liquid Metals in Thermocline Energy Storage at Karlsruhe

Fillers sitting in the lab scale thermocline tank at Karlsruhe Liquid Metals Laboratory IMAGE@ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) One of the ways to cut costs in thermal energy storage, whether standalone or as part of tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is to use heat transfer fluids able to reach higher temperatures, and with a …