Caesium doping accelerates the hydration rate of potassium carbonate in thermal energy storage

Autor: Jelle Houben, Aleksandr Shkatulov, Henk Huinink, Hartmut Fischer, Olaf Adan
Přispěvatelé: Thermo-Chemical Materials Lab, Transport in Permeable Media, EIRES Systems for Sustainable Heat
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 251:112116. Elsevier
ISSN: 0927-0248
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2022.112116
Popis: Potassium carbonate has recently been identified as a promising candidate for thermochemical energy storage. However, as for many salt hydrates, its reaction kinetics is relatively slow. K2CO3 has a metastable zone, where the reaction is kinetically hindered, which limits the temperature operating window. This work aims to improve the material performance, focusing on two aspects; improving the kinetics outside the metastable zone and reducing the metastable zone width. This work shows that doping with Cs2CO3, can improve both. Moreover, it is shown that the dopant enhances the hydration rate by introducing mobility due to local deliquescence. This lays the foundation for further material research using dopants to enhance the performance of salt hydrates.
Databáze: OpenAIRE