Seminar on Recent trends and future perspectives on thermal energy storage

Thermal energy storage (TES) is fundamental to support the penetration of renewables, decrease the energy consumption, and increase the efficiency of energy systems. The need of development of new and efficient TES technologies has attracted in the last twenty years a large number of researchers which produced an extensive number of studies on novel TES systems, materials and applications. Neverthless, there are still some research gaps which the needs to further be addressed in order to overcome actual barriers of implementation and make TES systems more efficient versatile and cost competitive. This lecture aims to show the main technologies and applications of TES and the state-of-the-art. Moreover the results of a study done using biliomtertic techniques are showed to highlite the latest trend and the research gaps that could open the door to future studies.