Abstract
The rapid growth of economies and population around the world have exponentially increased the demand for energy. This demand has invoked increased annual global CO2 emissions and necessitated a transition to clean energy technologies. Reliable and affordable energy storage technologies are paramount for increasing renewable energy penetration onto the grid, supporting periods with reduced or no renewable energy generation. This project is aimed at developing a Thermal Energy Storage (TES) solution that can deliver heat to a heat engine for power production or to an industrial process for prolonged periods. TES long duration energy storage (LDES) presents many potential benefits, including 1) Low Cost 2) scalability 3) high energy density 4) low carbon footprint and 5) resiliency via ability to produce synchronous power (i.e., spinning turbomachinery). The broader objective of this project is to build, test, and model the TES concept at a 2 MWh scale to determine the economic and physics-based practicality of the system. The work presented here describes the first phase objectives of the project, including benchtop scale testing, model development, and Model Validation.
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