Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101257

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150101257

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

High Energy Density - High Delivery Rate Thermal Energy Storage. This project aims to address the intermittency of renewable energy sources using novel thermal storage media. Advanced heat transfer modelling and in situ neutron diffraction and imaging are intended to be used to optimise the microstructure of newly developed miscibility gap thermal storage systems. The new media store energy as the latent heat of fusion of one phase in a stable, high thermal conductivity inverted microstructure. The high energy density of the latent heat (0.5-4.5 Mega Joules/Litre) requires storage volumes as little as five per cent of those relying upon heat capacity and the metal matrix has a hundred-fold greater thermal conductivity than current systems. It is proposed that a range of such materials will be engineered for concentrated solar thermal and space heating applications.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 30-06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $335,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Computational Heat Transfer | Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Solar-Thermal Energy | Energy Storage (excl. Hydrogen) |

Other Keywords

Computational Heat Transfer | Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage Engineering | Energy Storage (excl. Hydrogen) | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Solar-Thermal Energy

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