Heat and Cold Storage, Volume 1: Sensible and Latent Storage

Heat and Cold Storage 1 is dedicated to sensible and latent heat storage processes.

Beginning with some theoretical reminders, this book presents the main situations of low-temperature and high-temperature sensible storage for electricity generation. It also analyzes latent storage on phase-change materials (PCMs) from a fundamental standpoint, presenting the mechanisms to prepare PCMs and their integration into heat and cold storage processes. The most promising materials are presented, along with ways of improving the materials studied. Notions of technico-economic profitability are also defined.

Finally, the book looks at heat storage in thermodynamic solar power plants and the wide variety of physical storage principles involved.

Pierre Odru is an engineer at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, and has retired from IFPEN. He worked in research and development in deep-sea oil production, gas transport with IFPEN and energy storage for the French National Research Agency.

Elena Palomo Del Barrio is a professor at the University of Bordeaux, France, and Scientific Director of the Thermal Energy Storage Department at CIC energiGUNE in Spain. She is a world-renowned specialist in phase-change materials and has published over 100 articles in international journals.