Symposium

Abstract:

One of the most important futuristic goals of our society is to achieve a complete energy supply based solely on renewable, non-fossil energy sources. However, the main limitation remains their intermittent nature, which makes sources such as solar energy unavailable on cloudy days or at night, or wind energy unavailable when the wind isn’t blowing. To meet this challenge, energy storage systems are playing an increasingly important role, and various thermal energy storage systems are being introduced to store thermal energy at a design temperature depending on the end-user application. Thermal energy can be stored in different forms such as sensible heat, latent heat, or thermochemical energy, ranging from sub-zero temperatures as in the cold chain (T = -80 °C) to ultrahigh temperatures as in concentrated solar power (T = 800 °C). In this context, the main challenge is to improve their performance in terms of the share of renewables in an energy system, compactness, fast transient response, etc.
This symposium will be a collection of worthy and original studies on the following aspects of thermal energy storage systems:

• Technologies and methods for their design;
• Innovative modeling and simulation techniques;
• Solutions to improve their thermal performance;
• Applied and relevant engineering case studies.

Original papers related to the above topics as well as more generally on technologies, methodologies, numerical and experimental investigations, case studies related to thermal energy storage, are welcome.