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Thermal Energy Storage Materials Made of Natural and Recycled Resources for CSP in West Africa

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A sustainable development of Concentrating Solar Power plants can be really undertaken by using locally made components and low cost eco-materials. This study is focused on the use of coal bottom ash from Niger coal power plant and slaked lime from Burkina Faso acetylene production as industrial wastes, as well as laterite and clay from Burkina Faso as natural stones for the elaboration of thermal storage materials. The various materials have been used directly or combined together to obtain a suitable mixture. In order to determine the effect of heat treatment on the materials obtained, their structural organisation, microstructure, chemical composition and thermal behaviours were investigated. The results showed that after heat treatment of the laterite, the iron-spinel phase with inclusion of repetitive dendrites of the magnetite phase was obtained. The bottom ashes have highlighted the possibility to elaborate mullite refractory ceramic after heat treatment. The results also showed that anorthite ceramic can be synthesized from the mixtures of bottom ash with slaked lime and laterite. The obtained materials showed good thermal behaviour. Therefore, the main benefits of these materials are their sustainable character, wide availability, relevance to thermal energy storage applications up to 900 °C, and absence of use conflict.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the European Union Commission and the African Union Commission for financially supporting the project “CSP4Africa” in the framework of the African Union Research Grant Program (Grant Contract n°AURG/163/2012-CRSI n° 2012/289-007). This work was also supported by the French “investments for the future” programme managed by the National Agency for Research under contracts ANR-106LABX-22-01-SOLSTICE and ANR-10-EQPX-49-SOCRATE and the EUROSUNMED European project. The authors would like to thank Francois Tsobnang, Regis Olives and Jean Marie Mancau for their scientific support and T. Emmanuel Tidorchibe for proofreading. Eric Kenda also thanks the ANSOLE Fellowship program for its financial support ANSUP 01/16-14-16-FA.

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    Eric Serge Kenda, Kokouvi Edem N’Tsoukpoe & Yezouma Coulibaly

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    Eric Serge Kenda, Xavier Py & Najim Sadiki

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Kenda, E.S., Py, X., N’Tsoukpoe, K.E. et al. Thermal Energy Storage Materials Made of Natural and Recycled Resources for CSP in West Africa. Waste Biomass Valor 9, 1687–1701 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-017-9904-2

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