Thermal Solar Capacitor System

• US 20130167832A1
• Filed: 01/03/2013
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Stanley Kim
• Original Assignee: Stanley Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Stanley
• Application Number:
  US13/733,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20130167832A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 126/600
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 5/12 Molten materials, i.e. materials solid at room temperature, e.g. metals or salts
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 20/20 Solar heat collectors for receiving concentrated solar energy, e.g. receivers for solar power plants
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 20/25 using direct solar radiation in combination with concentrated radiation
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 20/30 Solar heat collectors for heating objects, e.g. solar cookers or solar furnaces
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 23/00 Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 23/30 with lenses
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 23/31 having discontinuous faces, e.g. Fresnel lenses
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 25/10 extending in directions away from a supporting surface
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 30/455 Horizontal primary axis
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 50/20 for tracking
• CPC Class Codes: F24S 60/10 using latent heat
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 2020/0047 using molten salts or liquid metals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/20 Solar thermal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/44 Heat exchange systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/47 Mountings or tracking

Abstract

The present invention relates to a zero-emission renewable heating system utilizing a thermal energy capacitor system using solar power as its source of heat, and more particularly, to a solar thermal capacitor system using an solar concentrators and a molten salt cell with thermal storage capability.

Claims

1. A solar thermal capacitor system, comprising a solar concentrator and a portable thermal capacitor containing molten salt.

2. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said solar concentrator includes a lens or mirror to concentrate the sunlight.

3. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 2, wherein said lens is a chosen from a magnifying lens or a Fresnel type lens.

4. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said mirrors or lens is affixed on a support structure.

5. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said thermal capacitor is portable and modular cell.

6. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said thermal capacitor includes an absorptive material to absorb solar energy.

7. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said thermal capacitor further includes an insulation layer to reduce radiant thermal heat loss.

8. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein the molten salt is stored in a thermal capacitor cell that is corrosion resistant and capable of withstanding multiple repetitive fluctuations in heat.

9. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein the thermal capacitor is lined with a corrosion resistant barrier.

10. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein the molten salt is an abundant non-ionic liquid salt that is cheap with can crystallize upon cooling with a melting point greater than ambient temperature.

11. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein the molten salt is composed of alkaline earth fluorides and alkali metal fluorides, and combinations thereof.

12. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 10, wherein the molten salt has salt-forming cations selected from ammonium, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, pyridinium, quaternary ammocium, and sodium;

and common salt-forming anions selected from acetate, carbonate, chloride citrate, cyanide, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate and sulfate.

13. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 12, wherein the molten salt is further composed of a metal selected from scandium, yttrium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, technetium, rhenium and lanthanoid.

14. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein the molten salt includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium;

at least one element selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine;

at least one element selected from the group consisting of scandium, yttrium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, technetium, rhenium and lanthanoid (hereinafter, this element may also be referred to as “

heavy metal”

); and

an organic polymer including at least one type of a bond of carbon-oxygen-carbon and a bond of carbon-nitrogen-carbon.

15. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a support to hold the solar concentrator in a position to heat the thermal capacitor.

16. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 15, wherein the support comprises a base to hold the thermal capacitors and a pivot assembly to hold the solar concentrator in position to concentrate solar light onto the thermal capacitor.

17. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 16, wherein the base absorbs heat.

18. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 15, wherein the base holds multiple fuel cells

19. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said thermal capacitor can be used as heating fuel cells for cooking and heating purposes

20. The solar thermal capacitor system of claim 1, wherein said thermal capacitor includes an anode and cathode connection, and the molten salt is capable of storing electrical energy.

21. A solar thermal capacitor system, comprising a solar concentrator and a portable thermal capacitor containing molten salt, wherein said solar concentrator is affixed on a support pivot to follow the rotation of the sun and concentrate solar light onto the thermal capacitor, wherein the support pivot is affixed on a base, and wherein the thermal capacitor is portable and removable from the base.