Thermal Energy Storage for Sustainable Energy Technology (Tes4seT)

Project Duration: 
10/2014 - 09/2018

Funding Agency:
Austrian Climate and Energy Fund

The Tes4seT project aims to develop advanced thermal storage materials, thermal storage devices, numerical simulation tools and control systems to integrate these into energy systems in industry, for mobility applications and in buildings, in order to strengthen these sectors and bring the Austrian industry in a leading European position in advanced thermal energy storage.
For thermal storage materials, the goal is to arrive at novel sorption and composite materials for low temperature applications and to investigate novel phase change and thermochemical materials for medium temperature storage for industry.


Novel thermal storage devices with significantly improved energy density will be developed for sorption seasonal storage of solar energy in buildings, for medium temperature phase change thermal storage and for the compact storage of surplus heat at medium temperatures in industry, while new concepts for storage of heat in conventional cars, railway vehicles and in hybrid and electric vehicles will be developed.


Storage materials, components, systems and control strategies are integrally developed in dedicated work packages, thus optimising the cross-fertilisation of the developments for the three different application areas: buildings, industry and mobility.


The technology development is accompanied by the creation of a knowledge pool and intense collaboration between the research partners, which will give a strong basis to help industry to accelerate the development of new materials, devices, tools and systems, helping them to open up huge new markets in the building sector, in the industry and in the field of mobility applications, with significant increase in the utilization of renewable heat as well as waste heat.

Contact:
DI Dr. Bernhard Zettl
bernhard.zettl@fh-wels.at 
+43 5 0804 46918

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