Advanced Technologies for Compressed Air Energy Storage/Thermal Storage Systems

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to a Special Issue of the journal Energies on the topic of “Advanced Technologies for Compressed Air Energy Storage/Thermal Storage Systems”.

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems and Thermal energy storage (TES) systems, as two major large-scale energy storage technologies, play an important role in peak clipping and valley filling of power systems, large-scale utilization of renewable energy, and development of distributed energy system. Indeed, major challenges are involved in performance improvement of the two systems to meet the large-scale utilization requirement in industry. For CAES, advanced technologies are needed to achieve higher efficiency, higher energy density, and lower cost. For TES, higher energy density, more stable materials, and lower environmental impact are required.

To address these issues, it is necessary to focus on advanced technologies in material, components, system configuration, and evaluation of CAES and TES systems. Therefore, links among material, component, and system should be well addressed. Furthermore, systems can be implemented in a working scenario to conduct a comprehensive study. For better performance, it is not only design methodologies and system operationthat should be the focus, i.e., dynamic study and advanced control.

This Special Issue encourages original contributions regarding recent developments and ideas in advanced technologies for CAES/TES systems. Potential topics include but are not limited to CAES technologies, TES technologies, components/material, dynamic analysis, system control, economic/ecological impact, renewable energy integration, distributed energy system integration, and power system integration.

Prof. Dr. Yujie Xu
Guest Editor

The World Energy Storage Technology Conference (WESC2021)

This Special Issue will collect outstanding papers for WESC2021. The World Energy Storage Technology Conference (WESC2021) & NSFC-BC China-UK Energy Storage Forum is a grand event for the academic and industrial circles in the international energy storage field. The conference will be held in Nanjing, China on 25 June 2021: http://inesalliance.ac.cn/meetingen

 

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