Opening Session – First International Workshop on Ultra High ...

Opening Session

First International Workshop on Ultra High

Temperature Thermal Energy Storage, Transfer, and

Conversion

Alejandro Datas

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Rise of Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources

REN21, “Renewables 2019, Global Status Report”

Entering the TW era…

8 % of global electricity generation

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Energy Storage capacity and technologies

95% is pumped hydroelectric(3 % or world power capacity)

http://www.energystorageexchange.org/

ElectrochemicalElectromechanical

Thermal Storage~5% of total

last 10 years

39%

33%

28%

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Emerging Energy Storage Technologies

IRENA (Oct 2017): Electricity storage and renewables: Costs and markets to 2030

Central Tower

~ 390 ⁰C

~ 565 ⁰C

Parabolic-trough

Gemasolar (Sevilla, Spain)

Andasol 3 (Granada, Spain)

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83%87%

55%

Carnot Efficiencies

Molten salt TES

Towards ultra-high temperature thermal storage

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boron

Latent heat (salts)Latent heat (metals)Sensible heat (liquids)Sensible heat (solids)

Li-ion Batteries

❑ Ultra-dense storage

❑ High efficiency

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Emerging activities around the world on UHTES

1414 Degrees (Australia)

MIT (USA)

Univ. Edinburgh, Energy3 (UK)

Antora Energy startup (USA)

AMADEUS Project (EU)

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UHTES Workshop: A side event of an AMADEUS meeting

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UHTES Workshop

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

Australia

France

Germany

Greece

Israel

Italy

Norway

Poland

Spain

UK

USA

Number of attendees

Others AMADEUS Project

Total registered people: 70From AMADEUS Project: 22

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UHTES Workshop

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UHTES Workshop

Thank you for attending…

… and enjoy the workshop!