Description
Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems provides unique and comprehensive guidelines on all non-battery energy storage technologies, including their technical and design details, applications, and how to make decisions and purchase them for commercial use. The book covers all short and long-term electric grid storage technologies that utilize heat or mechanical potential energy to store electricity, including their cycles, application, advantages and disadvantages, such as round-trip-efficiency, duration, cost and siting. Also discussed are hybrid technologies that utilize hydrogen as a storage medium aside from battery technology.Readers will gain substantial knowledge on all major mechanical, thermal and hybrid energy storage technologies, their market, operational challenges, benefits, design and application criteria.- Provide a state-of-the-art, ongoing R&D review- Covers comprehensive energy storage hybridization tactics- Features standalone chapters containing technology advances, design and applications
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Energy Storage2. Thermal Energy Storage3. Mechanical Energy Storage4. Hybrid Systems5. Applications of Energy Storage6. Commercial considerations7. Advanced Concepts
