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Thermal Energy Storage

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Glossary

Latent heat storage :

It is connected with a phase transformation of the storage materials (phase change materials – PCM), typically changing their physical phase from solid to liquid and vice versa. The phase change is always coupled with the absorption or release of heat and occurs at a constant temperature. Thus, the heat added or released cannot be sensed and appears to be latent. Stored energy is equivalent to the heat (enthalpy) for melting and freezing.

Sensible heat storage :

It results in an increase or decrease of the storage material temperature, and the stored energy is proportional to the temperature difference of the used materials.

Thermochemical heat storage :

It is based on reversible thermochemical reactions. The energy is stored in the form of chemical compounds created by an endothermic reaction and it is recovered again by recombining the compounds in an exothermic reaction. The heat stored and released is equivalent to the heat (enthalpy) of reaction.

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    Rainer Tamme, Doerte Laing, Wolf-Dieter Steinmann & Thomas Bauer

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  1. Solar-Instititut Jülich (SIJ), FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Jülich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Spiros Alexopoulos

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

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    Spiros Alexopoulos

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Tamme, R., Laing, D., Steinmann, WD., Bauer, T. (2022). Thermal Energy Storage. In: Alexopoulos, S., Kalogirou, S.A. (eds) Solar Thermal Energy. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1422-8_684

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