Design and System Integration of Thermal Energy Storage: Volume 2

Dear Colleagues,

The transition to more sustainable models of production and consumption is one of the big challenges of our society. Thanks to the opportunities offered by novel technologies, new models of participation in the energy sector are growing, the direct involvement of citizens as “energy prosumers” is going to become more and more spread and accepted among the social communities. The term “prosumer” is derived by merging the words “producer” and “consumer”, suggesting the simultaneous role that each citizen can play, as, until now, it has been considered only a consumer. Energy communities would allow for a widespread of decentralized energy generation from renewable sources – such as solar energy – and more rational exploitation of this, contributing to the process of decarbonizing the building sector.

The thermal energy storage is a fundamental component of a thermal energy system that let to interface the production side with a complex supply side as represented by a net of users that belong to a district, an energy community or a group of building. The optimal design and integration of thermal energy storage could let to achieve encouraging results in terms of energy saving and thermal load management, especially in systems in which different user profile are supplied by the same source

To this aim, we encourage works from both industry and academia focusing (but not limiting) on the following topics:

• Thermal energy storage for sustainable communities;
• Thermal energy storage for district heating and cooling applications;
• Optimal design and integration of Thermal Energy Storages
• Life Cycle Analysis of energy systems equipped with TES;
• Design methodologies for Thermal Energy Storage;
• Numerical simulation and optimisation techniques;
• Active TES systems;
• Passive TES systems;
• Application of TES in the residential sector;
• Application of TES in the tertiary sector;
• Development of control strategies for TES;
• Thermal energy storage for demand response;
• Thermal energy storage for grid applications;
• Thermal energy storage for renewable energy integration;

Dr. Valeria Palomba
Dr. Giuseppe Dino
Guest Editors

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• storage design
• storage systems
• integration with energy systems
• energy communities
• heating and cooling
• grid integration
• measurement and simulation methods
• renewable energy