Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage System
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2021) | Viewed by 284
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermal energy storage; energy system modelling and optimisation; low-carbon heating and cooling technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global provision of thermal energy, both for heating and cooling, has been acknowledged as a vital, yet difficult sector to decarbonise. One of the well-known challenges is the temporal mismatch between low-carbon sources and thermal demand.
As a solution to overcome long-term variation of thermal energy supply and demand, seasonal thermal energy storage has received significant interest in the last decades with notable installations in Europe, Canada, and China. These systems are almost exclusively using sensible thermal energy storage, while latent and thermochemical seasonal storage are being actively investigated. More recently, seasonal thermal energy storage is also seen as a potential link between energy vectors in integrated energy systems, e.g. for storing excess renewable electricity as thermal energy via heat pumps. These trends in different types of seasonal storage technology and future roles of seasonal storage in wider energy systems offer large and exciting opportunities for seasonal thermal energy storage technology.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the-art research in the design, development, and application of seasonal thermal energy storage. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Development of energy storage technology
- Techno-economic analysis
- Design and operational optimisation
- Integration in multi-vector energy systems
- Thermal energy management
- Control of thermal energy storage
- Pilot systems and field tests
- Energy systems modelling
Dr. Renaldi Renaldi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Seasonal thermal energy storage
- District heating and cooling
- Solar district heating
- Multi-vector energy systems
- Renewable heat
- Low-carbon heating and cooling
- Sensible thermal energy storage
- Latent thermal energy storage
- Thermochemical thermal energy storage
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