Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150101189

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP150101189

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Thermal transport in multi-phase flows for concentrating solar applications. This project seeks to advance the field of heat transfer in high-temperature systems involving liquid metals, with emphasis on energy storage and solar power technologies. The concept couples a tubular sodium boiler with a sodium chloride phase-change storage system for continuous energy supply. Sodium chloride is low cost and has a melting temperature suitable for a wide range of industrial processes. The project plans to address the challenge of sodium stability in highly irradiated tubes by investigating mass, momentum, energy and radiative transport in liquid metals. It is intended that this will inform the design and testing of novel sodium boilers to provide stable and isothermal process heat for continuous or on-demand production of power, chemical fuels and commodities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 23-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $430,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics | Heat and Mass Transfer Operations

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Solar-Thermal Energy | Energy Storage (excl. Hydrogen) |

Other Keywords

Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering | Energy Storage (excl. Hydrogen) | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics | Heat and Mass Transfer Operations | Mechanical Engineering | Solar-Thermal Energy

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