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Valuable high-temperature heat which is surplus to requirements is often available in industrial processes and in solar thermal power plants. Wouldn't it be good to develop versatile thermal energy storage devices to store this surplus energy for use as and when required?
As a result, cyclical industrial processes could be run using less power, solar thermal power stations could also provide power or process heat after the sun has gone down, or conventional cogeneration plants could be operated to a flexible timetable. Together with industry partners, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing innovative, low-cost high-temperature solid and latent heat storage media and thermochemical storage devices for the range of 100 to 1000 °C.
Contact:
Dr. Rainer Tamme
German Aerospace Center, member of the Helmholtz Association
Institute of Technical Thermodynamics
rainer.tamme@dlr.de
This research project was published in the brochure: "Researching: Energy" (PDF, 3,1 MB)
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