Development of High Added Value Products from Industrial Minerals for Hybrid Energy Storage

Industrial minerals are at the forefront of innovation and play an essential role in many innovative applications. Their functionalities and properties make them very versatile materials which are essential to many industries. A combination of properties such as heat capacity, density, price, availability, and eco-friendliness are exceptional and crucially advantageous of industrial minerals utilisation as thermal energy storage (TES) systems. This technology stocks thermal energy by heating or cooling a storage medium so that the stored energy can be used at a later time for heating and cooling applications and power generation. In this context, the utilisation of industrial minerals as carriers for impregnating phase change materials (PCM) can deliver new innovative products acting as short-term energy storage systems for construction applications to the market. TES is a technology that can solve the existing mismatch of energy supply and demand and improve buildings’ system performance by smoothing temperature fluctuations, as well as improving the reliability of the heating and/or cooling source. However, the most recent publications in this area are focused on PCM-enhanced building components thermal and kinetics analysis rather than focusing on the building component scale. This study is focused on the industrial minerals-PCM application as part of the building’s envelope, aiming to determine the benefits for buildings in terms of thermal energy performance and renewable energy penetration based on real data, harvested by an intelligent monitored building in Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park operated solely for research activities.

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Materials for Compact Thermal Energy Storage: A New IEA Joint SHC/ECES Task

ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Volume 2 ◽

10.1115/es2009-90260 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marco Bakker ◽

Wim G. J. van Helden ◽

Andreas Hauer

Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Energy Conservation ◽

Thermal Energy ◽

Thermal Energy Storage ◽

Phase Change Materials ◽

Materials Science ◽

Heat Pumps ◽

Added Value ◽

Material Development ◽

Heating And Cooling

A new IEA Task has recently been initiated to develop new storage materials. This Task is implemented as a Joint Task between the Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) and Energy Conservation through Energy Storage (ECES) Implementing Agreements, and is entitled “IEA SHC/ECES 42/24: Compact thermal energy storage: material development for system integration”. The objective of this Task is to develop advanced materials for compact storage systems, suitable not only for solar thermal systems, but also for other renewable heating and cooling applications such as solar cooling, micro-cogeneration, biomass, or heat pumps. The Task will cover phase change materials, thermochemical and sorption materials, and composite materials and nanostructures, and will include activities such as material development, analysis, and engineering, numerical modelling of materials and systems, development of storage components and systems, and development of standards and test methods. The main added value of this Task is to combine the knowledge of experts from materials science as well as solar/renewable heating and energy conservation. The Task has officially started on January 1, 2009, and will last for four years.

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Comparison of Charging and Discharging Period Analysis of Phase Change Materials-Paraffin Wax and Myristic Acid

International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology ◽

10.14741/ijcet.v8i01.10886 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Ajay M. Nair ◽

P Vinod Kumar Naidu

Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Thermal Energy ◽

Thermal Energy Storage ◽

Myristic Acid ◽

Phase Change Materials ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Storage Period ◽

Paraffin Wax ◽

Storage Unit ◽

Period Analysis

The present work is focussed on the experimental study of a PCM storage unit for thermal energy storage. Thermal energy storage systems are temporary storage of the thermal energy at high or low temperature and is a very essential tool to reduce the mismatch between supply and demand of energy. These also play very important role in energy conservation. In this experiments two PCM’s Paraffin wax and Myristic acid are compared by analysing their charging and discharging (storing) period, which is done in a simple and economically fabricated experimental set up. It is found that Myristic acid took only 2 hours and 25 minutes for complete charging while it was around 3 hours and 7 minutes for Paraffin wax. During storage period analysis it is evident that the Myristic acid stored heat better than Paraffin. However the drop in temperature of Myristic acid was just 70C in 8hours whereas it was around 120C for Paraffin wax in the same time period.

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Research Progress on the Phase Change Materials for Cold Thermal Energy Storage

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14248233 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (24) ◽

pp. 8233

Author(s):

Xinghui Zhang ◽

Qili Shi ◽

Lingai Luo ◽

Yilin Fan ◽

Qian Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Phase Change ◽

Thermal Energy ◽

Thermal Energy Storage ◽

Phase Change Materials ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Energy Utilization ◽

Research Progress ◽

Low Temperature Storage ◽

Free Cooling

Thermal energy storage based on phase change materials (PCMs) can improve the efficiency of energy utilization by eliminating the mismatch between energy supply and demand. It has become a hot research topic in recent years, especially for cold thermal energy storage (CTES), such as free cooling of buildings, food transportation, electronic cooling, telecommunications cooling, etc. This paper summarizes the latest research progress of the PCMs-based CTES. Firstly, the classification of PCMs for low temperature storage is introduced; the thermal physical properties (e.g., phase change temperature (PCT) and latent heat) of suitable PCM candidates (−97 to 30 °C) for CTES are summarized as well. Secondly, the techniques proposed to enhance the thermal properties of PCMs are presented, including the addition of nanomaterials, the microencapsulation and the shape stabilization. Finally, several representative applications (−97 to 65 °C) of PCMs in different CTES systems are discussed. The present review provides a comprehensive summary, systematical analysis, and comparison for the PCMs-based CTES systems, which can be helpful for the future development in this field.

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Pyrazolium Phase Change Materials for Solar-Thermal and Wind Energy Storage

10.26434/chemrxiv.9784595 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Karolina Matuszek ◽

R. Vijayaraghavan ◽

Craig Forsyth ◽

Surianarayanan Mahadevan ◽

Mega Kar ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Thermal Energy ◽

Thermal Energy Storage ◽

Phase Change Materials ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Scale Up ◽

Solar Thermal ◽

Energy Storage Materials ◽

Solar Thermal Energy ◽

Storage Materials

Renewable energy has the ultimate capacity to resolve the environmental and scarcity challenges of the world’s energy supplies. However, both the utility of these sources and the economics of their implementation are strongly limited by their intermittent nature; inexpensive means of energy storage therefore needs to be part of the design. Distributed thermal energy storage is surprisingly underdeveloped in this context, in part due to the lack of advanced storage materials. Here, we describe a novel family of thermal energy storage materials based on pyrazolium cation, that operate in the 100-220°C temperature range, offering safe, inexpensive capacity, opening new pathways for high efficiency collection and storage of both solar-thermal energy, as well as excess wind power. We probe the molecular origins of the high thermal energy storage capacity of these ionic materials and demonstrate extended cycling that provides a basis for further scale up and development.

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