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136129 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29353 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2015-05 62 pages eng Lee, William John Phelan, Patrick Wang, Robert Barrett, The Honors College Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program School of International Letters and Cultures Text As part of a United States-Australian Solar Energy Collaboration on a Micro Urban Solar Integrated Concentrator project, the purpose of the research was to design and build a bench-top apparatus of a solar power concentrator thermal storage unit. This prototype would serve to be a test apparatus for testing multiple thermal storage mediums and heat transfer fluids for verification and optimization of the larger system. The initial temperature range for the system to test a wide variety of thermal storage mediums was 100°C to 400°C. As for the thermal storage volume it was decided that the team would need to test volumes of about 100 mL. These design parameters later changed to a smaller range for the initial prototype apparatus. This temperature range was decided to be 210°C to 240°C using tin as a phase change material (PCM). It was also decided a low temperature (<100°C) test using paraffin as the PCM would be beneficial for troubleshooting purposes. Thermal Storage Concentrated Solar Power Phase Change Material Solar Power A Bench-Top Demonstration of a Novel Material Thermal Storage System Test Apparatus