Advances in Energy Storage Systems: Design, Modeling and Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 2427
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optimization of sustainable energy systems; energy storage; solar thermal conversion; integerated energy systems; exergy-based methods; life cycle assessment; multi-criteria decision analysis and optimization
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Interests: energy systems; hybrid electric vehicles; hydrogen technologies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy storage systems (ESSs) are key components of most power systems, especially those involving the use of renewable energy sources. Depending on the specific application and purpose, ESSs are indeed essential assets to allow suitable energy management. Besides being a reservoir of energy per se, they accomplish multiple crucial tasks as, for instance, compensation of energy intermittency in the case of renewables, peak shaving, and many others. The ESSs are basde on the process of converting different types of energy from an available to a storable form, which is then accumulated by means of various media. According to the specific application, a wide variety of technologies can be employed, from mechanical energy storages consisting in tank filled by compressed air through electrochemical, thermochemical, and chemical energy storage to thermal energy storage based on sensible or latent heat. However, in all cases, they play an important role in energy balancing and help to create a more flexible and reliable system.
For an ESS to be efficient, effective, and well-integrated into the power system, its design and operation must meet many requirements in terms of size, capacity, flexibility, reliability, and environmental sustainability during the whole life cycle. These pose some challenges in the development of innovative ESSs regarding several aspects, either technological and physical.
With the aim of providing a comprehensive overview of the latest findings and technological advancements, this Special Issue will focus on all the relevant aspects of ESSs, including those concerning modeling, control, optimization, systems integration, design, and sustainability.
As Guest Editors, we are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting your work in this area as a manscript to be considered for publication. Original research articles as well as comprehensive reviews are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Innovative and emerging storage technologies;
- Energy storage systems modeling and experimentation;
- Multi-energy storage systems;
- Phase change materials (PCMs) in hot and cold thermal storage applications;
- Energy management strategies for energy storage systems;
- Batteries development and thermal management;
- Engineering, control, and optimization of energy storage systems;
- Numerical modeling of energy storage systems;
- Applications in vehicle transportation;
- Applications in renewable energy systems;
- Exergy-based methods applied to storage systems
- Life cycle assessment of energy storage systems.
Dr. Barbara Mendecka
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Di Ilio
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- energy storage systems (EESs)
- novel energy storage solutions
- renewable and sustainable energy
- thermal energy storage
- hybrid energy storage system
- electric energy storage
- electrochemical energy storage
- phase change materials
- LCA
- exergy analysis
