The world aims to realize the carbon neutrality target before 2060. Necessary measures should be taken, including improving the energy efficiency of traditional fossil fuels and increasing the deployment of renewable energy sources, such as solar energy and wind energy. The massive utilization of renewable energy requires penetration of the renewable power generation above 80%. However, renewable energy has an intermittent and strong fluctuation nature, which leads to a mismatch between the power supply and periodical energy demand. Valley power and industrial waste heat are two other important clean energy supply methods, which are also the key solutions to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality. These two clean energy supply methods share the same nature of intermittent supply as the renewable power generation methods. To solve the mismatch problem, large-scale energy storage is a solution.
Energy storage has attracted great focus in the industrial, the commercial, and the civil field. Researchers from all over the world are keen to explore energy storage materials, energy storage systems, and energy transfer processes. As the core part of energy storage systems, properties of energy storage materials determine its charging and discharging performance, energy storage ability, service life and environmental impact, etc. In the research of materials, the material design and the preparation process are the most studied topics, as they are directly related to the properties of the energy storage materials. After the energy storage materials are integrated into a thermal energy storage system, the operational performance should also be studied through system optimization, heat transfer enhancement and operation optimization. These studies are essential for the large-scale utilization of energy storage technology.
This Research Topic aims to invite the latest experimental, numerical, theoretical and technical developments in thermal energy storage (TES), cold energy storage (CES) and hydrogen energy storage (HES). We welcome original research and review articles.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• TES material and preparation process
• CES material and preparation process
• Design of TES & CES devices and systems
• HES devices, systems and operation
• Utilizations of TES & CES materials in Carbon capture and storage
• Utilizations of TES & CES materials in thermal management
• Systems combined TES & CES with renewable energy
• Nanofluid enhanced heat transfer in TES & CES systems
• Low-carbon and green recovery of waste heat TES systems
The world aims to realize the carbon neutrality target before 2060. Necessary measures should be taken, including improving the energy efficiency of traditional fossil fuels and increasing the deployment of renewable energy sources, such as solar energy and wind energy. The massive utilization of renewable energy requires penetration of the renewable power generation above 80%. However, renewable energy has an intermittent and strong fluctuation nature, which leads to a mismatch between the power supply and periodical energy demand. Valley power and industrial waste heat are two other important clean energy supply methods, which are also the key solutions to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality. These two clean energy supply methods share the same nature of intermittent supply as the renewable power generation methods. To solve the mismatch problem, large-scale energy storage is a solution.
Energy storage has attracted great focus in the industrial, the commercial, and the civil field. Researchers from all over the world are keen to explore energy storage materials, energy storage systems, and energy transfer processes. As the core part of energy storage systems, properties of energy storage materials determine its charging and discharging performance, energy storage ability, service life and environmental impact, etc. In the research of materials, the material design and the preparation process are the most studied topics, as they are directly related to the properties of the energy storage materials. After the energy storage materials are integrated into a thermal energy storage system, the operational performance should also be studied through system optimization, heat transfer enhancement and operation optimization. These studies are essential for the large-scale utilization of energy storage technology.
This Research Topic aims to invite the latest experimental, numerical, theoretical and technical developments in thermal energy storage (TES), cold energy storage (CES) and hydrogen energy storage (HES). We welcome original research and review articles.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• TES material and preparation process
• CES material and preparation process
• Design of TES & CES devices and systems
• HES devices, systems and operation
• Utilizations of TES & CES materials in Carbon capture and storage
• Utilizations of TES & CES materials in thermal management
• Systems combined TES & CES with renewable energy
• Nanofluid enhanced heat transfer in TES & CES systems
• Low-carbon and green recovery of waste heat TES systems