Heat and Cold Storage for a Net-Zero Future
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 20822
Special Issue Editors
Interests: large-scale energy storage; thermal energy storage (TES); heat transfer fluid (HTF); concentrated solar power (CSP); molten salt battery; Carnot battery; molten salt corrosion
Interests: preparation of functional phase change materials; performance evaluation or thermal models of latent heat storage systems and thermal management systems
Interests: thermal energy storage; thermal management; solar fuel
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Interests: large-scale cold energy storage technologies; distributed energy system and control strategy; lithium-ion battery energy and thermal management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In a net-zero future, most energy should be supplied by renewable energies such as solar and wind energy to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and related climate problems. However, these sources are strongly volatile and intermittent. Thus, energy storage is required in the future energy system to bridge the gap between energy supply and energy demand. Thermal energy storage (TES, i.e., heat and cold storage) stores thermal energy in materials via temperature change (e.g., molten salt), phase change (e.g., water/ice slurry), or reversible reactions (e.g., CaCO3/CaO). TES technologies have the advantages of a more flexible location and lower investment compared to pumped hydrostorage, lower storage cost, larger storage capacity (GWhel scale), higher safety, and more environmental friendliness than batteries due to the simple, affordable materials used. TES technologies have been widely applied in the field of energies, e.g., power generation, grid storage for stabilization, and heat and cold energy management.
In order to accelerate international knowledge exchange and collaborations, Prof. Dr. Yulong Ding from the University of Birmingham initiated a free research exchange platform entitled “Thermal Energy Storage Development Association (TESDA)” in late 2020. TESDA now has >700 members and has also organized three free online symposiums with about 500 attendees each time. The primary goal of this Special Issue is to extend our discussions on the recent research and development of TES technologies for a net-zero future, with emphasis on advanced TES materials and devices. We welcome you to contribute research or review papers to this Special Issue. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Advanced TES or TES-related materials;
- Advanced TES devices, e.g., heat exchanger, reactor, molten salt pump in TES systems;
- TES for power generation, e.g., concentrated solar power plants, Carnot batteries;
- TES for heat and cold management in, e.g., e-cars, cold chain transportation;
- TES in building applications, e.g., heating or air conditioning;
- TES for production of chemicals from renewable energy, e.g., solar fuels, solar hydrogen;
- TES integrated with other renewable energy technologies, e.g., solar thermal conversion.
Dr. Wenjin Ding
Dr. Ziye Ling
Prof. Dr. Xianglei Liu
Prof. Dr. Wenji Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- molten salt technology including R&D of materials and devices
- TES and TES-related materials and devices
- corrosion of TES materials with containment materials
- TES for power generation, e.g., concentrated solar power
- TES using salt hydrates
- metal alloys for TES
- polymer-based TES materials
- thermal management systems with TES
- solar fuel
- thermochemical heat storage
- phase change materials
- CO2 splitting
- PCMs and slurries for cold thermal storage
- transport and heat transfer behaviors of slurries
- sustainable cooling and refrigerating with CTES
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