Power-to-heat integration in regenerator storage: Enhancing thermal storage capacity and performance

Separation of power and capacity in latent heat energy storage

The state-of-the-art latent heat energy storage system is equipped with aluminum fins at the heat exchanger pipes in order to compensate the low thermal conductivity of the phase change material (PCM). The necessary amount of fins is directly coupled to the capacity of the storage system, what makes larger systems expensive. The PCMflux concept is developed in order to realize both a controllab...

Composite Materials for Thermal Energy Storage: Enhancing Performance through Microstructures

Chemical incompatibility and low thermal conductivity issues of molten-salt-based thermal energy storage materials can be addressed by using microstructured composites. Using a eutectic mixture of lithium and sodium carbonates as molten salt, magnesium oxide as supporting material, and graphite as thermal conductivity enhancer, the microstructural development, chemical compatibility, thermal st...

High Performance Heat Storage and Dissipation Technology

High power solid state laser systems operating in a pulse mode dissipate the transient and excessively large waste heat from the laser diode arrays and gain material. The heat storage option using Phase Change Materials (PCMs) has been considered to manage such peak heat loads not relying on oversized systems for real-time cooling. However, the PCM heat storage systems suffer from the low heat ...

Enhancing Oracle Database Performance with Flash Storage

Heat storages in Swedish district heating systems An analysis of the installed thermal energy storage capacity