Effect of Na2CO3 content on thermophysical properties, corrosion behaviors of KNO3-NaNO2 molten salt

Heya Na, Cancan Zhang, Yuting Wu, Guoqing Wang and Yuanwei Lu

Energy, 2024, vol. 311, issue C

Abstract: Molten salt is popularly used as high temperature heat transfer and thermal energy storage medium. In order to decrease the melting point and increase decomposition temperature of molten salt, phase diagrams for KNO3-NaNO2 binary nitrates were calculated. And the binary salt with the lowest eutectic point was prepared. Furthermore, the effect of Na2CO3 addition on optimal selected KNO3-NaNO2 binary molten salt thermophysical properties and corrosion behavior are experimentally investigated. The results show that the addition of 7 wt% Na2CO3 to KNO3-NaNO2 binary molten salt can lower the melting point by 5.8 %. The addition of 9 wt% Na2CO3 to KNO3-NaNO2 binary molten salt can increase the decomposition temperature by 20.6 %, enhance the specific heat capacity by 4.8 % and increase the thermal conductivity by 7.5 %, but at the same time viscosity increased about 70 % at 300 °C. Meanwhile, the density increases with the increase of Na2CO3 content addition. The average corrosion rate of 316 stainless steel increases with the increasing of Na2CO3 content, which is consistent with the cross-section SEM results.

Keywords: Molten salt; Thermophysical properties; Thermal energy storage; High temperature corrosion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.133378

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