Materials, processes and structures to reduce thermal loses and aid energy storage and recovery at Ultra-High Temperature

该项目将侧重于调查可再生能源如何在极高温度下输入、储存和从材料中提取。随着可再生能源作为电网的重要贡献者的加速采用，这一点变得越来越重要。风能、太阳能等可再生能源的输出具有明显的时空变异性，因此需要一定的供需匹配机制，高温下较高的热损失限制了大规模储能装置的发展。因此，该项目将寻求开发管理高辐射热损失的技术，以实现比传统方法具有更高能量密度的超高温储能解决方案。这带来了缓解当前电网规模存储概念的一些问题的好处：使用稀有材料、有限的部署位置和周期退化。该项目可能会考虑开发合适的安全壳、热损失管理系统，以及在不同条件下运行商业系统。

The project will focus on the investigation of how energy from renewable sources can be input, stored and extracted from a material at extremely high temperatures. This becomes increasingly important with the accelerated adoption of renewable energy sources as significant contributors to the electrical grid. Renewable sources such as wind and solar produce an output which has significant temporal and spatial variation and thus there is a requirement for some mechanism to match supply with demand.High thermal losses at high temperatures have restricted the development of large scale thermal energy storage devices. This project will, therefore, seek to develop techniques which manage the high radiative heat losses in order to realise an ultra-high temperature thermal energy storage solution with higher energy density than conventional methods. This comes with the benefit of mitigating some of the issues with current grid-scale storage concepts: the use of rare materials, limited deployment locations and cycle degradation.The project may consider the development of a suitable containment vessel, thermal loss management system and the operation of a commercial system for varied conditions.