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Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems

  • 1st Edition - September 24, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Klaus Brun, Timothy C. Allison, Richard Dennis
  • Language: English

Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems provides unique and comprehensive guidelines on all non-battery energy storage technologies, including their tec… Read more

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Description

Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems provides unique and comprehensive guidelines on all non-battery energy storage technologies, including their technical and design details, applications, and how to make decisions and purchase them for commercial use. The book covers all short and long-term electric grid storage technologies that utilize heat or mechanical potential energy to store electricity, including their cycles, application, advantages and disadvantages, such as round-trip-efficiency, duration, cost and siting. Also discussed are hybrid technologies that utilize hydrogen as a storage medium aside from battery technology.

Readers will gain substantial knowledge on all major mechanical, thermal and hybrid energy storage technologies, their market, operational challenges, benefits, design and application criteria.

Key features

  • Provide a state-of-the-art, ongoing R&D review
  • Covers comprehensive energy storage hybridization tactics
  • Features standalone chapters containing technology advances, design and applications

Readership

Engineers, scientists, managers, operators, students, and other technically interested persons working in the field of energy, power generation, and energy storage systems

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Energy Storage
Forms of energy, energy conversion, and energy transport
Basic thermodynamics of energy storage
Definitions and performance measurements for energy storage
Basic overview of types of systems available or under development

2. Thermal Energy Storage
Types of thermal energy storage systems
Molten salt and other phase change liquids
Metals, ceramics, and other solids
Refrigerants
Design challenges and limits
Others

3. Mechanical Energy Storage
Types of mechanical energy storage systems
Gravity based systems
Compressed fluid systems
Pumping versus compression
Other potential energy storage
Design challenges and limits

4. Hybrid Systems
Pumped heat
Liquid air
Hydrogen storage
Reheat cycles
Electrical heaters
Intercooled systems

5. Applications of Energy Storage
Grid integration
Electrical conversion
Siting criteria
Installation challenges
Advantages and disadvantages of types of systems
Testing of systems

6. Commercial consideration
Installed costs
Roundtrip efficiencies
Grid integration
Storage duration
Operational (part load) flexibility
Energy storage versus distrusted energy versus back-up power
Regulatory impacts

7. Advanced Concepts
State-of-the art of the technology
Novel concepts
Ongoing R&D and major test facilities

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 24, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

KB

Klaus Brun

Dr. Brun is the Director of Research & Development at Elliott Group where he leads a group of over 60 professionals in the development of turbomachinery and related systems, products and infrastructures for the different energy industries, including renewable energies. His past experience includes positions in product development, applications engineering, project management, and executive management at Southwest Research Institute, Solar Turbines, General Electric, and Alstom. He holds twelve patents, has authored over 370 papers, and published six textbooks on energy systems and turbomachinery. Dr. Brun is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and won an R&D 100 award in 2007 for his Semi-Active Valve invention. He also won the ASME Industrial Gas Turbine Award in 2016 and 14 individuals ASME Turbo Expo Best Paper/Tutorial awards. Dr. Brun has chaired several large conferences including the ASME Turbo Expo and the Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium. Dr. Brun is a member of the Global Power Propulsion Society Board of Directors and the past chair of the ASME International Gas Turbine Institute Board of Directors, the ASME Oil & Gas Applications Committee, and ASME sCO2 Power Cycle Committee. He is a member of the API 616 Task Force, the ASME PTC-10 task force, the Asia Turbomachinery Symposiums Committee, and the Supercritical CO2 Symposium Advisory Committee. Dr. Brun is currently Executive Correspondent of Turbomachinery International Magazine and an Associate Editor of several journal transactions.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Research and Development, Elliott Group, Pennsylvania, USA

TA

Timothy C. Allison

Dr. Tim Allison is the Machinery Department Director at Southwest Research Institute where he leads an organization that focuses on R&D for the energy industry. His research experience includes analysis, fabrication, and testing of turbomachinery and systems for advanced power or oil & gas applications including high-pressure turbomachinery, centrifugal compressors, expanders, gas turbines, reciprocating compressors, and test rigs for bearings, seals, blade dynamics, and aerodynamic performance.
Affiliations and expertise
Machinery Department Director, Southwest Research Institute, TX, USA

RD

Richard Dennis

Mr. Richard Dennis is currently the Technology Manager for Advanced Turbines and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycle Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). These programs are multi-million dollar per annum R&D activities managed for the US. DOE Office of Fossil Energy. The programs support university, industry and U.S. national laboratory research, development and demonstration projects. Rich has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University. From 1983 to 1992 Mr. Dennis worked in the on-site research group of NETL where he conducted research related to pressurized fluidized bed combustion, gasification and gas stream particulate cleanup for advanced coal based power generation. From 1993 to 2000 Mr. Dennis managed contracted research for the DOE Office of Fossil Energy in advanced fossil fuel power generation including coal combustion, gasification, fuel cells, and gas turbines. In 2002 Richard was selected as the Turbine Technology Manager. In 2014 – 15 Dennis served as the technology manager for the DOE FE Advanced Combustion Systems technology area. Currently Richard is serving as the Technology Manager for Advanced Turbines and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles programs at NETL.
Affiliations and expertise
Technology Manager for Advanced Turbines and Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycle Programs, U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

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