Ouagadougou thermal energy storage

What are the different types of thermal energy storage systems?

Thermal energy storage (TES) systems store heat or cold for later use and are classified into sensible heat storage, latent heat storage, and thermochemical heat storage. Sensible heat storage systems raise the temperature of a material to store heat. Latent heat storage systems use PCMs to store heat through melting or solidifying.

Why is thermal energy storage important?

Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to the environment. This paper discusses the fundamentals and novel applications of TES materials and identifies appropriate TES materials for particular applications.

What are the applications of thermochemical energy storage?

Numerous researchers published reviews and research studies on particular applications, including thermochemical energy storage for high temperature source and power generation [, , , ], battery thermal management , textiles [31, 32], food, buildings [, , , ], heating systems and solar power plants .

What is the thermal behavior of solar energy storage systems?

The thermal behavior of various solar energy storage systems is widely discussed in the literature, such as bulk solar energy storage, packed bed, or energy storage in modules. The packed bed represents a loosely packed solid material (rocks or PCM capsules) in a container through which air as heat transfer fluid passes.

What is cascaded thermal energy storage (CTEs)?

Cascade PCMs Cascaded Thermal Energy Storage (CTES) utilizes Cascaded Phase Change Materials (CPCMs) that contain two or more PCMs with different melting temperatures to solve thermal deterioration in single-stage PCM charging or discharging.

What is the difference between thermal protection and energy storage?

The objective of thermal protection is to decrease or shift the heating/cooling load of a system, while the objective of an energy storage system is to store the thermal energy released from the system on demand [215, 221, 222].