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Thermal Energy Storage (TES) and Its Applications

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "D: Energy Storage and Application".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1466

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta
Interests: thermal management in electrical machines; fluid dynamics; applied thermodynamics; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); heat transfer; electronics cooling
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Institute of Advanced Technologies for Energy, Italian National Council Research (CNR), 98126 Messina, Italy
Interests: development and characterization of materials and components for thermal energy storage and conversion; detailed models of heat and mass transfer in porous media; development of renewable heating and cooling solutions
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Thermal Energy Storage (TES) and its Applications”. TES is a key technology contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and therefore global warming. TES systems store energy which is then utilized at a later stage to overcome the mismatch between energy generation and energy demand. Different TES technologies must be properly matched with systems in order to be effective.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Sensitive Thermal Energy Storage technology
  • Latent Thermal Energy Storage technology
  • Thermochemical Thermal Energy Storage technology
  • Environmental impact of TES over the life cycle of the system
  • Social Impact of systems incorporating TES components
  • Management methods and optimization of the energy stored in TES systems
  • TES applications in systems.  

Prof. Christopher Micallef
Dr. Andrea Frazzica
Guest Editors

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Discharging Behavior of a Fixed-Bed Thermochemical Reactor under Different Charging Conditions: Modelling and Experimental Validation
by Chengcheng Wang, Hongkun Ma, Abdalqader Ahmad, Hui Yang, Mingxi Ji, Boyang Zou, Binjian Nie, Jie Chen, Lige Tong, Li Wang and Yulong Ding
Energies 2022, 15(22), 8377; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15228377 - 09 Nov 2022
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Thermochemical heat storage has attracted significant attention in recent years due to potential advantages associated with very high-energy density at the material scale and its suitability for long-duration energy storage because of almost zero loss during storage. Despite the potential, thermochemical heat storage [...] Read more.
Thermochemical heat storage has attracted significant attention in recent years due to potential advantages associated with very high-energy density at the material scale and its suitability for long-duration energy storage because of almost zero loss during storage. Despite the potential, thermochemical heat storage technologies are still in the early stage of development and little has been reported on thermochemical reactors. In this paper, our recent work on the charging and discharging behavior of a fixed-bed thermochemical reactor is reported. Silica gels were used as the sorbent for the experimental work. An effective model was established to numerically study the effect of different charging conditions on the discharging behavior of the reactor, which was found to have a maximum deviation of 10.08% in terms of the root mean square error compared with the experimental results. The experimentally validated modelling also showed that the discharging temperature lift increased by 5.84 times by changing the flow direction of the air in the discharging process when the charging level was at 20%. At a charging termination temperature of 51.25 °C, the maximum discharging temperature was increased by 2.35 °C by reducing the charging flow velocity from 0.64 m/s to 0.21 m/s. An increase in the charging temperature and a decrease in the air humidity increased the maximum discharging outlet temperature lift by 3.37 and 1.89 times, respectively. Full article
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