Energy Storage

Southern Research Energy Storage Research Center

Taube B., Ringler E., Hansen T., Southern Research, US

Southern Research, with support from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the US Department of Energy (DoE), the State of Alabama and SE regional electric utilities, is developing a new Energy Storage Research Center (ESRC) [...]

Energy management strategies for Industrial facilities in the U.S.

Halbe A., Yeaman D., M+W Group, US

Cost efficiency and sustainability are the key drivers of innovation in energy supply and management for Industrial Facilities. Demand-side Energy Efficiency, PV, and Energy Storage are assets Industrial facilities can provide to the grid in [...]

Design of a heat-recirculating combustor for a thermophotovoltaic system

Kim H.K., Kim T.-Y., Kim H.K., Kim T.-Y., Kwon O.C., School of Mechanical Engineering Sungkyunkwan University, KR

Recently, the demand for light, fast-charging and long-lasting portable power sources to replace current lithium-ion batteries has been increased because of development of portable electronic devices such as laptop computers, cellular phones and signal equipments. [...]

Bending the DoD Energy Consumption Curve With Big Data Analytics (Conserving Energy with 1’s and 0’s)

Weatherly M., Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI), US

In 2014 Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI) utilized Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) funded technologies to develop a Decision Support and Optimization System Model for energy consumption for the United States Navy’s Fleet Forces Command (USFF). [...]

Hydrogen Adsorption on Isoreticular Metal-Organic Framework

Loera-Serna S., López-Sosa S., Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, MX

Implement the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy source would reduce the use of fossil fuels, therefore it seeks to challenge any difficulty, mainly storage; an alternative of great interest is the use of [...]

MaimAir: A Flexible and Modular Energy Storage System for Tomorrow Energy Banks

Fargion D., Habib E., Rome University 1, Sapienza, IT

We considered a novel energy storage system based on the compression of air through pumped water. Differently from CAES on trial, the proposed indirect compression leaves the opportunity to choose the kind of compression from [...]

Nanostructured Magnets and High-Power-Density Synchronous Generators

Lyshevski S.E., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

This paper examines enabling nanotechnology solutions for power generation systems (GGS) to improve and empower clean and renewable energy systems [1, 2]. The goal is to design electric machines with nanostructured magnets. We design optimized [...]

The Impact of Dielectric Coatings and Porosity of Nanoparticles on Energy Density

Davis J., Brown D., Henderson W., Anbalagan P., Georgia Institute of Technology, US

Using experimentally calibrated 3-D quasi-electrostatic simulations, various microstructural architectures of cold-pressed nanoparticle (NP) compacts for low-frequency energy storage applications are investigated. This work is built upon our investigations into metal-insulator composites [1] and dielectric composites [...]

Electroactive Polymers as Battery Electrodes

Lutkenhaus J.L., Texas A&M University, US

Plastic power, or energy storage platforms primarily consisting of polymers, offers opportunities never before available in current state-of-the-art prismatic or coin cells, such as flexible, structural, or stretchable energy storage. Electroactive polymers, a class of [...]