Advanced Thermal Storage Technologies for Sustainable Energy Applications

Huijin Xu is a professor at Shanghai Maritime University. He has achieved remarkable success in the academic field. His research interests are broad and deep, mainly focusing on cutting-edge fields such as thermal storage, heat transfer in porous media, sustainable marine energy utilization, and shipping carbon capture. He holds a number of invention patents, which provide innovative solutions for the application of related technologies. He has achieved fruitful results in academic research and has published many influential articles covering various aspects such as thermal chemical reactions, membrane separation, porous media characteristics, and energy system optimization. His research not only has theoretical value but also provides useful guidance for practical applications Maziar Deghan is an associate professor in the Energy Department of the Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC) in Iran. He is also a professional HVAC engineer and has been a member of the "Iranian Construction Engineering Association" since 2016. His research interests are extensive, including solar heating, cooling and photovoltaics, desalination, energy storage, green and low-energy buildings, CFD (heat and fluid flows), and transport phenomena in porous media. Dehghan has achieved remarkable academic accomplishments. He graduated from a well-known university in Iran with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Energy Conversion). He has held multiple research positions, such as the director of the Solar Energy Research Group, and is also an invited editor and reviewer for multiple journals. In short, he is an outstanding scholar and professional in the field of thermal energy storage and solar energy. Tao Xu is currently an associate professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. China. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Liverpool and the University of Plymouth, UK in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She then became a Post-Doc researcher in the New and Renewable Energy Group at the University of Durham, UK. She has carried out research which concentrates on the challenges associated with the widespread integration and control of distributed renewables. She has published many papers in smart grids in international leading journals, and has acted as PI in a number of international collaborations on microgrids. Dr. Cancan Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing University of Technology, and he once visited UIUC in the United States as a visiting scholar. He holds multiple academic positions and has presided over numerous national and provincial-level projects. He has published more than 60 papers, including 45 SCI papers, and has been authorized more than 10 patents. He has participated in the formulation of 2 national standards and 3 group industry standards. His research fields are extensive, including heat exchangers, collectors, heat exchangers, refrigeration systems, molten salt energy storage, etc. He serves as an editorial board member of multiple journals and has won many honors, such as the second prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award and the second prize of the Innovation Competition of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He has made remarkable achievements in the academic and scientific research fields and has contributed to the development of related fields Dr. Qinghua Yu has a wide range of research interests, mainly including thermal storage, thermal management of batteries and electric vehicles, enhanced heat and mass transfer, hydrogen, and fuel cells. He has achieved remarkable results in academic research and has published many high-level academic papers, covering various aspects such as the degradation and polarization curve prediction of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, the discharge performance and thermoelectric conversion efficiency analysis of thermally regenerative ammonia-based flow batteries, the analysis of the heat charging and release processes in phase change material energy storage floor heating systems, and the performance optimization of plate-fin heat exchangers. Xu Xiaofeng serves as a R&D engineer at Shanghai Highly Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. He has conducted postdoctoral research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Maritime University and obtained his doctorate from Shanghai Maritime University. His research interests are extensive, including compressor technology, refrigeration and cryogenic engineering, ice thermal storage and phase change energy storage technology, and the utilization and storage of new energy. He has achieved fruitful results in academic research, published many high-level papers, and holds a number of patents. He has led key R&D projects of the company and participated in many important projects. He has won several honors such as the Science and Technology Progress Award in Henan and Shanghai. In addition, he actively participates in academic exchanges and serves as a youth editorial board member and reviewer for several domestic and international journals

• 1. Introduction to thermal energy storage for renewables2. Advanced materials in thermal storage: enhancing performance3. Applications and advancements of sensible molten-salt thermal storage4. Innovations and case studies for solid-solid latent thermal storage for Sustainable energy solutions5. Integration and Optimization of latent heat/cold storage with PCM6. Sorption thermal storage technology for low temperature renewable applications7. Advancements in thermochemical heat storage for renewables8. Heat-pump-integrated thermal storage and Carnot battery for low-grade heat recovery9. Conclusion and future outlook