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Hashemi, L. (author)The demand for sustainable and clean energy sources has become increasingly vital in addressing the challenges of climate change and energy security. Hydrogen, with its high energy density and potential for carbon-free energy conversion, has emerged as a promising candidate for future energy systems. Efficient storage and retrieval of hydrogen...doctoral thesis 2024
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Mulder, Sebastiaan (author), Klein, S.A. (author)To support increasing renewable capacity for a net-zero future, energy storage will play a key role in maintaining grid stability. In this paper, all current and near-future energy storage technologies are compared for three different scenarios: (1) fixed electricity buy-in price, (2) market-based electricity buy-in price, and (3) energy storage...journal article 2024
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Kostaras, Christos (author), Pavlou, C. (author), Galiotis, Costas (author), Dassios, Konstantinos G. (author)As an emerging class of materials, nanocarbons have attracted significant interest for practical applications due to their remarkable mechanical, electrical and thermal properties coupled with high surface areas and tunable surface chemistry. However, challenges like high aspect ratios and poor dispersibility in polymer matrices hinder their...review 2024
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Amladi, Amogh (author), Venkataraman, V. (author), Woudstra, T. (author), Aravind, P.V. (author)Energy storage is vital for the energy transition, enabling reliable power grids based on intermittent renewables. Reversible solid oxide cell (rSOC) technology is promising for seasonal energy storage. The novel finding from this work is that optimised air recirculation for rSOC in endothermic electrolyser mode leads to efficiency being...journal article 2024
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Chen, C. (author), de Kogel, Albert (author), Weijers, M.J. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Wang, Xuehang (author)The growing demand for safe, cost-efficient, high-energy and high-power electrochemical energy storage devices has stimulated the development of aqueous-based supercapacitors with high capacitance, high rate capability, and high voltage. 2D titanium carbide MXene-based electrodes have shown excellent rate capability in various dilute aqueous...journal article 2024
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Jiang, Yan (author), Vázquez, Ricardo Javier (author), McCuskey, Samantha R. (author), Yip, Benjamin Rui Peng (author), Quek, Glenn (author), Ohayon, David (author), Kundukad, Binu (author), Wang, Xuehang (author), Bazan, Guillermo C. (author)In alignment with widespread interest in carbon neutralization and sustainable practices, we disclose that conjugated polyelectrolyte (CPE) hydrogels are a type of recyclable, electrochemically stable, and environmentally friendly pseudocapacitive material for energy storage applications. By leveraging ionic-electronic coupling in a...review 2024
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Righetti, Giulia (author), Zilio, Claudio (author), Hooman, K. (author), Mancin, Simone (author)Among experts, it is well-known that the thermal conductivity of PCMs (phase change materials) is low hence a major limitation for their commercial application. This work proposes alternative, inexpensive, but nevertheless effective solutions to increase the average thermal conductivity of a PCM system (a commercial paraffin wax, having a...journal article 2024
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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Sun, Ying (author), Huang, Ruopeng (author)The increasing greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions constitute one of the most significant global environmental issues. CO2 emissions from buildings and transportation are responsible for the largest proportion of total global carbon emissions from various sectors. Therefore it is necessary to utilize clean energy sources (e.g., renewable energy,...book chapter 2024
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Marszal-Pomianowska, Anna (author), Motoasca, Emilia (author), Pothof, I.W.M. (author), Felsmann, Clemens (author), Heiselberg, Per (author), Cadenbach, Anna (author), Leusbrock, Ingo (author), O'Donovan, Keith (author), Petersen, Steffen (author), Schaffer, Markus (author)Buildings can deliver short-term thermal energy storage by utilising the thermal capacity of the building construction and/or by activating the water tanks included in the heating/cooling installation. The flexibility potential of demand management using decentralized thermal energy storage has been quantified in many theoretical modelling...journal article 2024
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Alpizar Castillo, J.J. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Bauer, P. (author)The urge to reduce the dependence on natural gas for heating at the residential level has led to the deployment of different fossil fuel-free alternatives. In the Netherlands, two technologies are leading the transition: heat pumps, due to their high COP, and photovoltaic–thermal systems, due to their dual electric-thermal output. However,...journal article 2024
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van der Roest, E. (author)The transition from a fossil to a renewable energy system presents challenges in ensuring reliable and affordable energy supply. This dissertation addresses these challenges by proposing an integrated system approach to designing a renewable energy and water system on the neighborhood level. The concept, known as Power-to-H3, involves converting...doctoral thesis 2023
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Vermeer, W.W.M. (author)This thesis investigates the integration of electric vehicle (EV) charging, photovoltaic (PV) power, and battery energy storage (BES), using a direct current (DC) integrated multi-port power converter. The goal is to aid the energy transition using the intelligent operation of the aforementioned components to provide a more cost-effective system...doctoral thesis 2023
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Diab, I. (author)Electricity grids are increasingly congested as the world moves toward a sustainable, electrified future. Expanding and upgrading these infrastructures is costly and challenging on a technical and administrative level and even redundant when considering that some sub-parts of these grids, such as electric transportation networks, are massively...doctoral thesis 2023
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Abdelhakim, Ahmed (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Stecca, M. (author), Canales, Francisco (author)Compact and efficient power converter solutions are seen to be the backbone of future transportation systems in order to cope with the ongoing transition toward greener systems. Such systems usually comprise a main load section, in which one or more propulsion or traction motors are connected, in addition to an auxiliary load, which might...journal article 2023
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de Bekker, Philippe (author), Cremers, S.A. (author), Norbu, Sonam (author), Flynn, David (author), Robu, Valentin (author)Given the fundamental role of renewable energy assets in achieving global temperature control targets, new energy management methods are required to efficiently match intermittent renewable generation and demand. Based on analysing various designed cases, this paper explores a number of heuristics for a smart battery scheduling algorithm that...journal article 2023
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Moradi Sepahvand, M. (author), Amraee, Turaj (author)This paper presents a multi-stage expansion model for the co-planning of transmission lines, battery energy storage (ES), and wind power plants (WPP). High penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) is integrated into the proposed model concerning renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policy goals. The possibility of bundling existing...journal article 2023
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Naderloo, M. (author), Ramesh Kumar, K. (author), Hernandez, Edgar (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author)Considering the storage capacity and already existing infrastructures, underground porous reservoirs are highly suitable to store green energy, for example, in the form of green gases such as hydrogen and compressed air. Depending on the energy demand and supply, the energy-rich fluids are injected and produced, which induces cyclic change of...journal article 2023
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Heidary, Amir (author), Popov, M. (author), Moghim, Ali (author), Ghaffarian Niasar, M. (author), Lekić, A. (author)The significance of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) technology has been growing rapidly, mostly due to the need for microgrid applications and the integration of renewables. Relevant to the importance of utilization of BESS in microgrids, the protection of the BESS during microgrid faults has become a concern too. The short circuit in...journal article 2023
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Beernink, S.T.W. (author), Hartog, Niels (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Bloemendal, Martin (author)The technical and economic success of an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system depends strongly on its thermal recovery efficiency, i.e. the ratio of the amount of energy that is recovered to the energy that was injected. Typically, conduction most strongly determines the thermal recovery efficiency of ATES systems at low storage...journal article 2023
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Figueroa, Fidel (author), Lizana Fuentes, Ricardo (author), Goetz, Stefan M. (author), Rivera, Sebastian (author)Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESSs) have gathered considerable interest due to their potential to achieve high energy and power density by integrating different storage technologies, such as batteries and capacitors, to name a few. Among the various topologies explored for HESSs, the multi-output multilevel converter stands out as a...journal article 2023