Recent contributions to thermochemical heat storage (TCHS) technology have been
reviewed and have revealed that there are four main branches whose mastery could …

In recent years, the deployment of chemically stable physisorbents in various water sorption-
related applications has received significant attention. Depending on their structural …

Sorption thermal energy storage (STES) technology, belonging to the wider class of
thermochemical TES, represents a promising alternative to common sensible and latent …

Abstract This Virtual Special Issue is a collection of papers on thermal energy storage
published in Applied Energy from 2009 to 2018. This amounts to 448 papers, accounting for …

Adsorption isotherms are reported for pure water vapor on zeolite 13X (also called zeolite
NaX) pellets. Data were obtained using a gravimetric method over a temperature range of …

Sorption heat storage (SHS) is a promising technology towards efficient use of renewable
energy sources. Composite materials based on hygroscopic salts have a high potential for …

Interest towards adsorption heat storage, especially for long-term (seasonal) applications, is
growing. The previous studies have always treated the heat storage cycle as a fully …

Composite materials consisting of a salt-impregnated porous host matrix constitute a way to
combine the high energy storage density of hygroscopic salts with the fast kinetics of the …

The determination of the thermo-physical properties (density, specific heat capacity, and
thermal conductivity) of hygroscopic and reactive solid materials, as those applied in …

In the present chapter, an introduction about the concept of sorption TES technology is
reported. The closed and open configurations are discussed and an overview on the …