Projects

The objective of the project of the International Energy Agency is to develop advanced materials and systems for compact storage of thermal energy. To reach this goal experts from material research and system technology in different fields of application work together: solar thermal energy, co- and tri-generation and heat pumps, air conditioning, district heating, industrial waste heat, concentrated solar power etc.

This task deals with advanced materials for latent and chemical thermal energy storage, and excludes materials related to sensible heat storage. Sensible materials for heat storage are only used as reference cases. The task deals with these materials on three different scales:

• material scale, focused on the behavior of materials from the molecular to the ‘few particles’ scale, including e.g. material synthesis, micro-scale mass transport, and sorption reactions;
• bulk scale, focused on bulk behavior of materials and the performance of the storage in itself, including e.g. heat, mass, and vapor transport, wall-wall and wall-material interactions, and reactor design;
• system scale, focused on the performance of a storage within a heating or cooling system, including e.g. economical feasibility studies, case studies, and system tests.

The project is organized in a matrix-like structure and is divided in the application areas mentioned above and 5 materials working groups.

• Materials Engineering
• Materials Processing
• Tests und Characterization
• Numerical Modeling
• System Integration

Project management:

• DI. M.Sc. Dagmar Jähnig

Client:

BMVIT

Progress:

ongoing

Project partner:

Viele internationale Partner
Projektleitung IEA: ECN und ZAE Bayern
Österreichische Partner: TU Graz – IWT
AIT
ASIC

• www.iea-shc.org