Thermal Storage of Solar Energy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Proceedings of an International TNO-Symposium Held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 5-6 November 1980

Proceedings of the International TNO-Symposium held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 5-6 November 1980 by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research

I Opening Addresses, Addresses of Welcome.- Opening Speech.- Opening Address.- Opening Address.- II Sensible Heat Storage.- Summary and Overview.- Solar Pond Storage Capability.- Parametric Investigation of the Performance of Solar Heating Systems with Rock Bed Storage.- Thermal Stratification in Heat Storages.- On the Dynamics and Control of Solar Heating Systems Using Stratified Storage.- III Latent Heat Storage.- Summary and Overview.- An Overview of the Usa Program for the Development of Thermal Energy Storage for Solar Energy Applications.- The Swedish Seasonal Thermal Storage Program with Application to the Building Sector.- Use of Paraffins for Thermal Storage.- A Theoretical Study of the Ashrae 94-77 Test Procedure for Thermal Storage Devices.- Improvement of Heat Transport in Paraffins for Latent Heat Storage Systems.- Heat Storage with an Incongruently Melting Salt Hydrate as Storage Medium Based on the Extra Water Principle.- Experimental Results of a Latent Heat Storage System Based on Sodium Acetate Tri Hydrate in a Stabilizing Colloidal Polymer Matrix, Tested as a Component of a Solar Heating System.- Heat of Fusion Storage Systems for Solar Heating Applications.- IV Long Term Storage.- Summary and Overview.- Long Term Storage of Solar Energy, Which Future for Europe?.- Theoretical Studies on Seasonal Heat Storage in Aquifer.- Experimental Study of Seasonal Heat Storage in Aquifer.- A Group of Solar Houses with Seasonal Heat Storage in the Soil.- Seasonal Storage of Low Temperature Heat in Big Water Reservoirs.- Heat and Mass Transfer in Non-Saturated Soil with Phase Change.- Seasonal Heat Storage in Hard Rock — Multiple Well System.- V Chemical Storage of Thermal Energy.- Summary and Overview.- Thermochemical Energy Storage and Chemical Heat Pumps.-Thermal Storage System Based on the Heat of Adsorption in Air-Based Solar Heating Systems.- Chemical Storage and Pumping of Solar Thermal Energy - French Programme.- Solid-Solid Phase Transitions.- The Absorption Process for Storage of Low Temperature Heat.- Authors Index.- List of Participants.