Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems

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.

1. Introduction to Energy Storage 2. Thermal Energy Storage 3. Mechanical Energy Storage 4. Hybrid Systems 5. Applications of Energy Storage 6. Commercial considerations 7. Advanced Concepts