Dynamic characteristics of cool thermal energy storage systems—a review

ABSTRACT

Cool thermal energy storage (CTES) plays a significant role in conserving available energy, improving its utilization, and correcting the mismatch that occurs between the supply and demand of energy. It has been employed in many applications, for example, cool storage systems for air-conditioning and natural cooling of energy-efficient building. CTES is widely used in various industrial applications such as food and pharmacy processing, where large short duration loads are often required. This paper presents a review on CTES systems and characteristics. The dynamic characteristics of chilled water storage system, coil pipe cool storage system, packed bed cool storage system, gas hydrate cool storage system, and ice slurry cool storage system are analyzed and discussed. The applications of CTES system are summarized.

KEYWORDS:

• Chilled water storage
• coil pipe cool storage
• cool thermal energy storage
• gas hydrate cool storage
• ice slurry cool storage
• packed bed cool storage

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Funding

The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51376087) for financial support of this research.