Processes and Technologies for Thermal and Thermochemical Energy Storage
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 November 2022) | Viewed by 5030
Special Issue Editors
Interests: concentrated solar thermal technologies; thermochemical energy storage processes; fluidized beds; calcium/chemical looping technologies; CO2 capture and utilization or storage; torrefaction; pyrolysis; gasification
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Interests: combustion, gasification and pyrolysis of solid fuels with a high content of volatile materials; the development of new configurations of multiple fluidized bed systems aimed at the chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling process; the development of new fluidized bed configurations aimed at converting concentrated solar energy into electrical energy and/or materials (chemical storage, solar fuels)
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Interests: entrained-flow gasification of solid fuels; dynamics of multi-phase flows; fluidization and fluidized bed systems; chemical reaction engineering; reactor design and operation; heterogeneous reaction kinetics; fluidized bed machining of mechanical parts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue: “Processes and technologies for thermal and thermochemical energy storage”.
Transition towards a green and sustainable economy requires the development of strategies to efficiently exploit renewable energies and to reduce the waste heat in industrial processes. The intermittent nature of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind demands solutions to increase their dispatchability with the aim of promoting their extensive deployment and provide stability to the electric grid. The reduction of waste heat/energy at any temperature level is imperative to increase the competitiveness and environmental impact of already existing and forthcoming industrial processes.
Within this framework, thermal and thermochemical energy storage opens the path to uncoupling energy collection and its final use, thus allowing for the recovery of waste heat, increasing the dispatchability of renewable energies and management of excess renewable energy.
The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to the development of processes and technologies suitable for these purposes. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Modelling and experimental studies on thermal and thermochemical energy storage technologies (e.g., material reactivity and kinetics, materials synthesis, reactor design, looping cycles);
- Power to heat and chemicals;
- The design, operation, and simulation of conventional and novel reactors/systems for energy storage (e.g., fluidized bed, fixed bed, entrained flow reactors, rotary kilns, cyclonic and vortex reactors, particle receivers);
- Systems analysis and optimization of industrial processes;
- Techno-economic analysis of energy storage systems (e.g., capital costs, levelized cost of energy).
Please join us and share your knowledge and research studies to contribute to the development of a green and sustainable economy.
With kind regards,
Dr. Claudio Tregambi
Dr. Roberto Solimene
Dr. Maurizio Troiano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- renewable energy
- concentrated solar thermal power
- power to heat and chemicals
- chemical reactions
- techno-economic analysis
- looping cycles
- material synthesis and kinetics
- reactor design
- waste heat recovery
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