On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Alan J Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 11:08 AM 12/15/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: > > I need to add phase-change salts (and possibly even ceramic bricks) to my > fakes paper. Can you give me / point me to a likely candidate? > > > http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~meam502/project/reviewexample2.pdf (2007) > > Very few with a melting-point above 100C -- and most of those are > categorized as Group II or III or "-" > Group I, most promising; group II, promising; group III, Less promising; > -- insufficient data. > > It's odd that the paper says little or nothing about sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate, a mixture of which (40/60) is actually used to store energy in some concentrating solar plants. Sodium nitrate melts at 308C, and the liquid has a heat capacity of 2 J/gK if I remember correctly. It would be pretty effective for Rossi's purposes.
