Vertical C: Energy Storage System Innovation
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The module delivers an extensive examination of energy storage technologies and their pivotal role in enabling industrial decarbonization and sustainable energy transition. It begins by explaining the fundamental rationale for energy storage—addressing the mismatch between renewable energy generation and fluctuating demand patterns—differentiating between short-term storage needs (primarily addressed by batteries) and long-term requirements (managed through various technologies including Power-to-X). The module systematically explores battery technologies, from market-dominant lithium-ion and lead-acid systems to their evolutionary advancements across multiple generations, highlighting improvements in electrodes, electrolytes, and emerging chemistries like sodium-ion and metal-air batteries. It then expands to large-scale storage solutions, detailing pumped hydro storage, compressed air energy storage (CAES), hydrogen-based systems, and redox flow batteries, analyzing their efficiencies, applications, and geographical constraints. A significant focus is placed on innovative thermal and chemical storage technologies as cross-sectoral solutions, examining both conventional approaches and cutting-edge developments in ammonia synthesis, CO₂ electroreduction, phase change materials, and thermo-mechanical systems like liquid air energy storage (LAES). Throughout, the module emphasizes how these diverse storage technologies collectively contribute to energy security, grid stability, renewable integration, and industrial decarbonization while addressing trade-offs in efficiency, scalability, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
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1.2C.1. Energy Storage Solutions for Industrial DecarbonizationThe lecture explores energy storage solutions for industrial decarbonization, focusing on technologies that support renewable energy integration. It covers short-term storage (batteries) and long-term storage (pumped hydro, compressed air, and Power-to-X solutions like hydrogen and synthetic fuels). The session highlights the challenges of efficiency, scalability, and infrastructure, emphasizing the need for diverse storage methods to enable a stable, low-carbon energy system.
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1.2C. Quiz: Energy Storage
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1.2C.2. Batteries – Their Role in the Energy Transition and the Current Market Status
The lecture explores the crucial role of batteries in the ongoing energy transition, emphasizing their importance in renewable energy storage and electrification. It provides an overview of current battery technologies, market trends, and key industry players. Additionally, it discusses challenges such as raw material supply, sustainability, and future innovations shaping the battery sector.
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1.2C. Quiz: Batteries
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1.2C.3. Batteries – Advanced Technologies and Expected Future Trajectories
The lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the current battery landscape and future technological trajectories. It examines the dominant battery technologies—lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries—and explores their advancement paths. The lecture details the evolution of lithium batteries through generational improvements in electrode materials and electrolytes, while also discussing enhancements in lead-acid battery technology. It highlights how these advancements aim to address existing limitations and meet future energy storage demands across various applications.
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1.2C. Quiz: Advanced Batteries
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1.2C.4. Large-Scale Storage Solutions: Hydrogen, CAES, Pumped Hydro, etc.
The lecture focuses on large-scale energy storage solutions, essential for balancing energy supply and demand in modern power systems. It explores various storage technologies, including Pumped Hydro Storage (PHS), Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), Hydrogen and Synthetic Fuels, and Redox Flow Batteries (RFB). The lecture examines the efficiency, advantages, and challenges of each technology, highlighting their roles in enhancing grid stability, energy security, and integration of renewable energy sources.
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1.2C. Quiz: Large-Scale Storage
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1.2C.5. Innovative and Advanced Chemical and Thermal Storage Solutions
The lecture explores innovative and advanced thermal and chemical storage solutions as strategic cross-sectoral storage systems. It covers fundamental concepts of both storage types, explaining their role in sector coupling and integration of renewable energy sources. The lecture examines conventional and innovative chemical storage technologies, including hydrogen-based paths and direct synthesis methods, alongside various thermal energy storage approaches such as sensible, latent, thermochemical, and thermo-mechanical solutions.
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1.2C. Quiz: Chemical Storage
