Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2013, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (2): 165-171.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4239.2013.02.011

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Potential applications of thermal energy storage in electric power generation sector (Ⅱ)

LI Yongliang, JIN Yi, HUANG Yun, YE Feng, WANG Xiang, LI Dacheng, WANG Caixia, DING Yulong   

  1. Joint IPE-UoL Institute for Energy Storage Research,Beijing 100190,China
  • Received:2013-01-18 Revised:2013-01-22 Online:2013-04-19 Published:2013-04-19
  • Contact: 丁玉龙,教授,研究方向为储能系统的研发,储能过程中多相流动与传热强化,无机中高温复合储能材料研究,基于超临界过程的空气储能技术研究等,E-mail:Y.Ding@leeds.ac.uk.
  • Supported by:
    英国EPSRC项目(EP/K002252/1)

Abstract: This article briefly introduces four potential thermal energy storage (TES) applications in electric power generation sector, including solar power generation, compressed air energy storage (CAES), cryogenic energy storage and heat pump technology. It concludes that TES is promising in concentrated solar power (CSP) generation in the near future. Current two-tank sensible thermal storage technology has a good overall efficiency, and is expected to play an important role particularly in power generation sector.

Key words: molten salt storage, adiabatic compressed air energy storage system, cryogenic energy storage, heat pump technology

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