Seminar 51 -- Thermal Energy Storage Solutions for Buildings: Materials to Applications

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Latent Thermal Energy Storage (LTES) integrated HVAC equipment can promote a more efficient integration of renewable sources leading to a novel way of thinking for air conditioning and space heating. Such LTES can be often integrated in the form of thermochemical (TCM) or Phase Change Materials (PCM)-embedded heat exchangers. The seminar presents past and current work on TCMs and PCMs focusing on material selection criteria for heat pump water heaters, potential of TCM salt hydrates as multi-cyclic LTES, important design parameters for efficient multi-scale LTESs, and on key characteristics of used embedded heat exchangers designs and associated modeling challenges.

1. Selection of Phase Change and Thermochemical Materials for Heat Pump Water Heater Thermal Energy Storage Applications< /br> Joe Rendall, Ph.D., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
2. Stable Thermochemical Salt Hydrates for Energy Storage in Buildings< /br> Sumanjeet Kaur, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
3. On the Design of Latent Thermal Energy Storage for Air Conditioning and Space Heating< /br> Simone Mancin, Ph.D., University of Padova, Padua, TN, Italy
4. Review of Phase Change Material Embedded Heat Exchangers Used in Latent Thermal Storage Systems< /br> Vikrant Aute, Ph.D., Member, University of Maryland, College Park, MD