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Key Challenges for High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage in Concrete—First Steps towards a Novel Storage Design
(MDPI, 2022-07)
Thermal energy storage (TES) allows the existing mismatch between supply and demand in energy systems to be overcome. Considering temperatures above 150 °C, there are major potential benefits for applications, such as ...
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Capital Cost Assessment of Concentrated Solar Power Plants Based on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles
(2019-07)
Previous work by the authors has shown that broader analyses than those typically found in literature (in terms of operating pressures allowed) can yield interesting conclusions with respect to the best candidate cycles ...
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A national data-based energy modelling to identify optimal heat storage capacity to support heating electrification
(Elsevier, 2023-01-01)
Heating decarbonisation through electrification is a difficult challenge due to the considerable increase in peak power demand. This research proposes a novel modelling approach that utilises easily accessible national-level ...
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Behaviour of a concrete wall containing micro‐encapsulated PCM after a decade of its construction
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-04)
Today, our society has the duty of reducing the energy consumed in the building sector. A promising technology to achieve this goal is the implementation of thermal energy storage (TES) solutions in buildings envelope. ...
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Advances in thermal energy storage materials and their applications towards zero energy buildings: A critical review
(Elsevier BV, 2017)
Buildings are responsible for one-third of the world's energy consumption, of which 60% is due to heating and cooling. To accomplish the low-carbon energy goal in the building sector, thermal energy storage offers a number ...
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Improvement of Phase Change Materials (PCM) Used for Solar Process Heat Applications
(MDPI, 2021-02)
The high intermittency of solar energy is still a challenge yet to be overcome. The use of thermal storage has proven to be a good option, with phase change materials (PCM) as very promising candidates. Nevertheless, PCM ...
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Supercooled sodium acetate aqueous solution for long-term heat storage to support heating decarbonisation
(Elsevier, 2022-11-15)
Heating decarbonisation through electrification requires the development of novel heat batteries. They should be suitable for the specific application and match the operation conditions of domestic renewable energy sources. ...
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Energy flexible building through smart demand-side management and latent heat storage
(Elsevier, 2018-11)
One of the greatest challenges for long-term emissions reduction is the decarbonisation of heating and cooling due to the large scale, seasonal variation and distributed nature. Energy flexible buildings with electric ...
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Passive cooling through phase change materials in buildings. A critical study of implementation alternatives
(Elsevier, 2019-11)
Global warming is gradually increasing the cooling energy demand of buildings. Phase change materials (PCM) offer high potential to passively reduce cooling energy consumption and overheating by absorbing heat gains in the ...