Our Technology
Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage
Particle Packed Bed Energy Storage (PB-TES) system stores and recovers thermal energy or heat, up to 1,600 °C, using low-cost and high temperature stable ceramic particles. Utilizing a packed bed design with high temperature stable, low-cost, and 100% recycled particle storage materials provides advantage over existing thermal energy storage in regards to performance and deployment. Particle packed bed thermal energy storage systems can be incorporated into renewable energy systems to enhance flexibility and reliability while lowering levelized energy cost (LEC).
Particle Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage Highlights
Patented thermal energy storage technology based on highly optimized storage and recovery flow method
Extremely low capital cost ($/kWh-t)
High storage and recovery efficiencies (%)
Scalable energy storage capacity (kWh-t to GWh-t)
Wide operational temperature, from 20 °C to 1,600 °C
Independent charge and discharge duration
High energy density (kWh-t/ft3)
Can leverage existing assets for delpoyment
Particle storage materials made 100% from industrial waste
Long life cycle (+30 years)
Minimal operations and maintenance cost
Modular design with easy transportation and installation process
Our energy storage solution eliminates the high cost and geographical deployment challenges that have traditionally impeded current state of the art energy storage systems, such as Pumped Hydro Storage (PHS), Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), Mechanical Energy Storage, Hydrogen, Batteries, and other Thermal Energy Storage (TES) systems, such as Hot/Cold Water, Molten Salts, Phase Change Materials (PCMs), or other solid materials (such as Rocks or Concrete).
Technical PUBLICATIONS
Mohammad Al-Azawii, Sabah Alhamdi, Sasha Braun, Jean-Francois Hoffmann, Nicolas Calvet, Ryan Anderson, Experimental Study on Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage Using Recycled Ceramic as Filler Materials, Journal of Energy Storage 2021
Hitesh Bindra, S Revankar, Storage and Hybridization of Nuclear Energy: Techno-Economic Integration of Renewable Energy and Nuclear Energy, Academic Press 2019
Hitesh Bindra, G Wilson, S Sahoo, P Sabharwal, Packed Bed Thermal Storage for LWRs, Storage and Hybridization of Nuclear Energy, 229-248 2019
Ryan Anderson, M.M.S. Al-Azawii, C. Theade, M. Danczyk, E. Johnson, Experimental study on the cyclic behavior of thermal energy storage in an air-alumina packed bed, Journal of Energy Storage, 18C 2018 239-249.
Pablo Bueno, Ryan Anderson, E. Johnson, L. Bates, A. Dower, Thermal energy storage with supercritical carbon dioxide in a packed bed of alumina: modeling charge-discharge cycles, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 137 2018 57-65.
Hitesh Bindra, J Edwards, An experimental study on storing thermal energy in packed beds with saturated steam as heat transfer fluid, Solar Energy 157, 456-461 2017
Hitesh Bindra, J Edwards, P Sabharwall, Exergy analysis of thermal energy storage options with nuclear power plants, 2016, Annals of Nuclear Energy 96, 104-111
Ryan Anderson, L. Bates, E. Johnson, J.F. Morris, Packed bed thermal energy storage: A simplified experimentally validated model, Journal of Energy Storage, 4, 2015
Bueno, P.C., Bates, L., Anderson, R., and Bindra, H., “Thermal Energy Storage for the Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle,” GT2015-44054, Proc. ASME Turbo Expo 2015 GT2015, Montréal, Canada, June 15-19, 2015.
Ryan Anderson, Samira Shiri, Hitesh Bindra, Jeffrey F. Morris, `Experimental results and Modeling of Energy Storage and Recovery in a Packed Bed of Alumina Particles', Applied Energy, 119, 2014
Hitesh Bindra, Pablo Bueno, Jeffrey F. Morris, `Sliding flow method for exergetically efficient packed bed thermal storage', Applied Thermal Engineering, 64, 2014
Hitesh Bindra, Pablo Bueno, Jeffrey F. Morris, Reuel Shinnar, `Thermal analysis and exergy evaluation of packed bed thermal storage systems', Applied Thermal Engineering, 52, 2013
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