considered. If it is located at the left side of the diagram, significantly reduced salt temperature in the hot tank would
be the result. If it is located on the right side, the salt temperature in the hot tank would be as high as possible, but
the temperature at the cold end would be reduced accordingly. This would necessarily lead to an according reduction
of the live steam pressure during discharging. As a compromise, the minimum temperature difference between the
steam and the molten salt can be located in the middle of the diagram of figure 4, whereas design parameters and
efficiency losses have to be weighed up against each other. In any case the effect of the curved steam line will cause
some reduction of the live steam temperature in between charging and discharging of the storage. This has to be
considered appropriately during storage design and system analysis. In this paper, storage concepts are identified and
assessed that consider the mentioned effect. The concepts aimed at the highest possible steam parameters during the
discharging process of the system.