Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2020, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (3): 861-868.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2019.0246

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Status and prospect of thermal energy storage technology for clean heating

LING Haoshu1(), HE Jingdong2, XU Yujie1(), WANG Liang1, CHEN Haisheng1   

  1. 1. Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China
  • Received:2019-11-01 Revised:2019-11-27 Online:2020-05-05 Published:2019-12-12
  • Contact: Yujie XU E-mail:linghaoshu@iet.cn;xuyujie@iet.cn

Abstract:

Promotion of clean heating can improve the livelihoods and contentedness of people in the northern China. Various clean heating technologies are available, each with different characteristics. Among these technologies, thermal energy-storage technology has received much attention. This paper summarizes the technologies of clean heating and thermal energy storage and reviews the development status and trend of thermal energy-storage technologies in clean heating applications. Finally, combining the characteristics of clean heating technology and thermal energy-storage technology, typical thermal energy-storage technologies for clean heating were analyzed. Among the clean heating technologies, we identified clean coal-fired central heating, natural gas heating, electric heating, renewable energy, and other clean heating technologies. Electric heating technologies based on thermal energy storage are widely disseminated as they cooperate with the peak load regulations of power grids and avoid the volatility of renewable energy sources. Thermal energy-storage technologies are divisible into sensible heat, latent heat, and thermochemical heat storage technologies. As the earliest, most widely used, and most mature technology, sensible heat-storage technology has advantages of scalability, long life, low cost, and high technological maturity. Latent heat-storage technology achieves a high heat-storage density, and its temperature remains nearly constant during exothermic processes. This technology has become a research and application hotspot. Thermochemical heat-storage technology achieves the highest energy-storage density over a long storage period, but it is currently in the laboratory verification stage. Thermal energy-storage technologies for clean heating have gradually focused on water-heat storage, high-temperature solid-heat storage, and phase-change heat storage. This study provides a reference and basis for the design and application of clean heating technologies in northern China.

Key words: clean heating, thermal energy storage technology, sensible heat storage, latent heat storage, thermochemical heat storage

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