[HTML][HTML] Let's hear it from the cities: On the role of renewable energy in reaching climate neutrality in urban Europe

G Ulpiani, N Vetters, D Shtjefni, G Kakoulaki… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sources have emerged globally as a key lever to ensure energy security
and to promote climate mitigation. Cities need to exploit this energy transition, but how they …

A review of distributed energy system optimization for building decarbonization

X Zhu, X Zhang, P Gong, Y Li - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Building energy consumption has increased rapidly in the past decade, in particular for heat
demand and electric vehicles, owning to the development of economy and improvement of …

Refined modeling and co-optimization of electric-hydrogen-thermal-gas integrated energy system with hybrid energy storage

H Dong, Z Shan, J Zhou, C Xu, W Chen - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
To further explore the multi-energy complementary potential on multi-time scales under
variable operating conditions, a refined modeling and collaborative configuration method for …

Evaluation of variable rotation on enhancing thermal performance of phase change heat storage tank

B Yang, J Guo, X Huang, Z Li, X Yang, MJ Li - International Journal of Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rotation mechanism can effectively enhance convective heat transfer. Previous studies
have been conducted to explore the potential application of its enhancement effect for …

A comprehensive review on techno-economic assessment of hybrid energy storage systems integrated with renewable energy

A Emrani, A Berrada - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
Integrating renewable energy systems into the grid has various difficulties, especially in
terms of reliability, stability, and adequate operation. To control unpredictable loads, one …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of curtailed wind into flexible electrified heating networks with demand-side response and thermal storage: Practicalities and need for market …

T Desguers, A Lyden, D Friedrich - Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasingly high renewable penetration in electrified energy systems causes increasing
levels of curtailment that must eventually be mitigated. System flexibility, energy storage and …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing a deep geothermal exploration well for borehole thermal energy storage: Implications from statistical modelling and sensitivity analysis

CS Brown, I Kolo, G Falcone, D Banks - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) is an important technology to minimise
greenhouse gas emissions by storing surplus heat from industrial processes, space cooling …

Salt gradient solar pond as a thermal energy storage system: A review from current gaps to future prospects

Y Rghif, D Colarossi, P Principi - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract A Salt Gradient Solar Pond (SGSP) is an artificial pond or natural lake, able to
collect and store the incident solar energy, characterizing by a specific vertical gradient of …

Free convection of nanofluids in a porous sensible heat storage unit: Combined effect of time periodic heating and external magnetic field

M Izadi, B Alshuraiaan, A Hajjar, MA Sheremet… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanofluids have gained much interest in recent years in heat transfer applications due to
their improved thermal properties compared to conventional pure fluids. In many …

Charging performance of structured packed-bed latent thermal energy storage unit with phase change material capsules

C Yu, J Qian, D Cao, D Chen, L Wu, C Zhang - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
A mathematical model of the charging process for a structured packed-bed latent thermal
energy storage unit with phase change material capsules is established. The thermal …