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Prototyping electrically charged high-T thermal energy storage concepts
Thermal energy storage (TES) operating at temperatures above 500 °C has the potential to help decar-bonize processes which typically rely on fossil fuels to produce high-T heat on demand.
Modelling this type of TES is challenging since heat transfer is dominated by radiation at high tempera-tures, which must be coupled with conduction and, for molten materials, convection. In a recent Master Thesis project, a voxel-based Monte Carlo model dedicated to these problems was developed and suc-cessfully validated against reference solutions [1].
The scope of this project is to exploit this software tool to investigate the design space of high-T thermal energy storage concepts, and to propose the design of a representative small-scale prototype to be tested in our labs.
2024_TES_MT.pdf
