... heating and refrigeration applications, the experience for the power level and temperature range characteristic of solar process heat and solar thermal power plants is limited. Cost effective implementation of the latent heat storage concept demands low cost phase change materials (PCMs). These PCMs...

...Wolf-Dieter Steinmann; Doerte Laing; Rainer Tamme The increased interest in solar thermal systems using steam as a working medium either for power generation or process heat applications gave rise to a growing demand for latent heat storage units. Essential for the development of cost-effective...

... of about 2000 kW m − 2 and for quicklime production rates up to 4 kg h − 1 . The use of concentrated solar energy in place of fossil fuels as the source of process heat has the potential of reducing by 20% C O 2 emissions in a state-of-the-art lime plant and by 40% in a conventional cement plant. 28...