Silica micro-encapsulation of organic phase-change materials for thermal energy storage

Renewable energy production and storage are our main levers to fight climate change. As the battery industry struggles to manufacture cheap, cyclable and safe systems, thermal energy storage recently became a more active area of research, promising cheap and cyclable storage materials. In the U.S., nearly 70% of the energy input ends up as thermal losses. More than a third of these losses are generated at electricity production plants and another third in the transportation sector. Combined, these two sectors waste nearly 50% of the total U.S. energy feed. Thermal energy storage can help take advantage of this opportunity by allowing to revalorize waste heat. High-temperature thermal energy storage can be used to generate electricity but requires large and expensive systems that can only be charged with high-grade energy sources (usually electricity or solar energy).

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Viry, Cédric.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jeffrey C. Grossman.

• Materials Science and Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122084

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