Procedures, component optimization, and integration in the analysis of thermal energy storage materials.

Considering the volume of thermal energy consumed by humans, every breakthrough in thermal energy management strategies can have a significant social impact. Thermal energy storage (TES) serves an important purpose in thermal energy management. Thermal energy storage is critical for balancing energy demand as well as supply, ensuring system stability, along with maximizing the potential of intermittent renewable energy sources. It may not only maximize the use of renewable energy and reduce the price of electricity at nighttime, but also give flexibility as well as auxiliary services for addressing future power supply/demand concerns. There is still a need for a clear and complete source of knowledge to provide related concepts as well as applications even if there are numerous good review materials in the literature covering diverse heat storage systems independently. Different TES types such as sensible, latent as well as sorption have been briefly detailed in this work in order to study their performance. Among these aspects is the design of the components, the material characteristics of the components, the optimization of the components, as well as the integration of the components in different forms from the component level to the system level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]