Thermal energy storage - Part II: Low and Medium temperature processes


20 Sept.			11:30 - 13:00



ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY
TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION
TT.II - Technical Multi-Track with Parallel SYMPOSIA
Thermal Energy Storage - Part II: Low and Medium temperature processes
Co-organized with ENEA Chair: Raffaele LIBERATORE, ENEA
The increase in the use of non-programmable renewable sources requires tools to allow continuity of supply, without impacting the environment and the use of strategic materials. The possibility of introducing a high energy density or high capacity thermal storage system, with good performance also in terms of operating temperatures and reversibility, leads to a substantial reduction in the need for primary fossil energy, not only in the civil sector , but also in the industrial processes and production of electricity. The requests for technological development in these sectors are many: research into new materials (e.g. thermochemical or phase change, even nanostructured), supports to increase energy density at high and low temperatures, development of new processes capable of minimizing losses in the various heat absorption and release cycles, validation of new applications able to exploit large basins (e.g. underground aquifers) or other thermal sources (e.g. geothermal resources, thermal waste), development of advanced controls and processes to align user needs with production capacities.

TT.II.C.1	Marco PANTALEO University of Bari The potentials of thermal storage for energy systems flexibility
TT.II.C.2	Franco DOMINICI University of Perugia New nanofluids and nano-enhanced phase change materials for concentrated solar energy applications
TT.II.C.3	Daniele NICOLINI - CV ENEA Study of the discharge phase of a hybridized thermocline thermal energy storage system with a nano-enhanced phase change material
TT.II.C.4	Enrico PATRUCCO - CV RSE Thermochemical Energy Storage process based on zeolite 13X
TT.II.C.5	Gabriela SQUARZONI RSE Pre-feasibility analysis of a LT-ATES system using numerical simulations