Test Campaing and Performance Evaluation of a Spiral Latent Storage Module with Hitec® as PCM
Abstract
A modified spiral plate heat exchanger for its use as thermal energy storage (TES) has been selected using Hitec® salt as storage medium within the activities of the REELCOOP project (7th Framework program of the European Union Ref N. 608466, www.reelcoop.com). After its installation at one of the storage test facility at PSA (Plataforma Solar of Almería) and its commissioning, the test campaign has been performed. The testing procedures and the results evaluation are presented in this paper. For a better understanding of the phase change process, thermal analyses of the commercial Hitec® salt have been carried out.