Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to the environment. This paper discusses the fundamentals and novel applications of TES materials and identifies appropriate TES materials for particular applications.
Other sources of thermal energy for storage include heat or cold produced with heat pumps from off-peak, lower cost electric power, a practice called peak shaving; heat from combined heat and power (CHP) power plants; heat produced by renewable electrical energy that exceeds grid demand and waste heat from industrial processes.
Thermal energy storage (TES) systems provide both environmental and economical benefits by reducing the need for burning fuels. Thermal energy storage (TES) systems have one simple purpose. That is preventing the loss of thermal energy by storing excess heat until it is consumed. Almost in every human activity, heat is produced.
Because it is easily available and it is a non–toxic, non–flammable material, it is completely harmless to people. Therefore water is the best suited thermal energy storage material for home space heating, cold storage of food products and hot water supply type of applications. Steam phase is used for high temperature heat energy storage.
There are three main thermal energy storage (TES) modes: sensible, latent and thermochemical. Traditionally, heat storage has been in the form of sensible heat, raising the temperature of a medium.
Different material properties are utilized in Thermal Energy Storage (TES) applications, categorized into three methods based on thermal mechanisms: sensible heat, latent heat, and thermochemical heat. 1. Sensible thermal energy storage is a viable option for lowering energy consumption and CO 2 emissions, particularly in residential buildings.