Advances in Thermal Energy Storage and Applications—2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 April 2026 | Viewed by 116
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vehicle thermal management; heat pump and powertrain systems; pumped heat electrical storage; renewable energy conversion and utilization; AI methodologies for system optimization
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: vehicle thermal management; latent heat storage technology and application; data-driven methods for heat and fluid flow
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the second edition of the previously successful Special Issue “Advances in Thermal Energy Storage and Applications”.
As an important type of technology for the construction and development of low-carbon, safe and efficient energy supply systems, thermal energy storage has broad application prospects in renewable energy utilization, power grid peak shaving and valley filling, industrial waste heat recovery, building energy conservation, thermal management for vehicles and power electronics, etc. Thermal energy storage could effectively solve the mismatch between the supply and demand of thermal energy with regard to time, space or intensity, as well as enhance system or device energy utilization. In recent years, thermal energy storage technologies, including sensible heat storage, latent heat storage, and thermochemical heat storage, have been deeply studied in different fields of heat utilization. With the enrichment of thermal storage scenarios and the improvement of the scale and quality of thermal storage, it is urgent and important to develop advanced thermal storage technologies that can realize efficient space–time transfer and utilization of thermal energy.
This Special Issue will present the latest research on new materials, systems, devices and methods for advanced thermal energy storage, as well as investigations into heat transfer, flow and physical and chemical mechanisms. Scholars are invited to submit original research, review, and perspective articles on the topics of interest for publication, which include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Configuration design and optimization of high-efficiency thermal storage systems;
- Preparation and optimization of materials with high thermal energy storage density;
- Enhancement of the thermal and chemical stabilities of thermal storage material;
- Thermodynamic and economic analyses of thermal storage systems;
- Control of heat charging and discharging of thermal storage systems and devices;
- Heat transfer control and enhancement of thermal storage devices;
- Single-phase and multi-phase flow control of thermal storage devices;
- Operation strategy optimization of thermal storage systems;
- Smart fault detection and diagnosis of thermal storage systems;
- Advanced simulation and testing approaches.
Dr. Panpan Song
Dr. Siyu Zheng
Dr. Hongsheng Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- system design
- working fluid selection
- performance prediction
- heat transfer enhancement
- flow control
- intelligence algorithm applications
- fault detection
- simulation and test methods
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