1. The Future of Energy Storage and Associated Areas of Researches
Professor Jian Wang
Professor of Aircraft Technology

2. Content Brainstorming The Significance The Relevant Areas
What is energy storage?
Why the energy need to be stored?
What are the issues related to energy storage?
The Significance
The Relevant Areas
Key Energy Storage Research Areas

3. Brainstorming What, Why Relevant issues Energy transfer
Forms of different energy
Energy Carrier
Energy storage vs. Environment
Energy conversion
Affordability
Disposal

4. What is Energy Storage—the concept
Definition:
Energy Storage System:
Charged/fill/
Keep
Controlled Discharge
Materials: can store energy
Can be charged/filled/?/?
Able to keep
Could be control
Energy conversion
Different forms of energy

5. The Significance Portability of energy
Various energy sources—traditional vs. renewable
Balance of supply and demand of energy
Necessity of energy management
… …
Environmental issues
Diminishing of fossil fuel reservation
Cost effectiveness of energy consumptions

6. Why Energy Storage? Intermittent energy sources
Unevenly distributed energy sources
Different power generation capabilities
Different level of demanding of Energy
Different requirements of energy & power
Smoothing and balance energy output
Different forms of energy 

7. The relevant Areas of Energy Storage
Type of energies
Energy conversion
Different applications
Cost effectiveness
Energy management (planning, forecasting, monitoring, controlling, conserving)
… …
Energy carrier
Materials
Technologies
Applications
an energy carrier is either a substance or a phenomenon that can be used to produce mechanical work or heat or to operate chemical or physical processes

8. The relevant Areas of Energy Storage—cont’d
Materials
Different forms of energy
Technologies
Applications

9. Brainstorming What will be the key research areas?
How could we identify?
Where can we start from?
How could we cut in?

10. Key Energy Storage Research Areas
Material development
Energy transfer/transformation
Cost reduction/Whole Life Cost management
Improve manufacture techniques
The economic effect of integrating CAES (compressed air energy storage) in different electricity markets and varying levels of renewable energy penetration
Run-of-river hydro storage (all aspects)

11. Key Energy Storage Research Areas—cont’d
Large-scale/light long life batteries
Quantify potential change/shift in power demand from wide-spread use
Quantify long-term effect of techniques
Determine optimum system size for max economic returns
Identify policy initiatives to encourage more development

12. Key Energy Storage Research Areas—cont’d
Evaluate the effect of different policy initiatives on decision to use different techniques
Evaluate the profitability of different configuration and integration
Energy storage efficiency
Impact of energy storage on environment

13. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 1
Morphological characterization and applications of phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 72 (2017) 128–145

14. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 2
Review of system topologies for hybrid electrical energy storage system
Journal of Energy Storage 8 (2016) 78–90

15. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 3
Surface engineering of nanomaterials for improved energy storage – A review
Chemical Engineering Science 154 (2016) 3–19

16. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 4
A review on compressed air energy storage Basic principles, past milestones and recent developments
Applied Energy 170 (2016) 250–268

17. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 5
Application of dielectric barrier discharge plasma-assisted milling in energy storage materials— A review
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 691 (2017) 422—435

18. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 6
A review on current status and challenges of inorganic phase change materials for thermal energy storage systems
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (xxxx) xxxx–xxxx

19. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 7
Packed bed thermal energy storage A simplified experimentally validated model
Journal of Energy Storage 4 (2015) 14–23

20. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 8
Recent developments of aprotic lithium-oxygen batteries: functional materials determine the electrochemical performance
Science Bulletin: Accepted

21. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 9
Recent advances in all-solid-state rechargeable lithium batteries
Nano Energy: accepted

22. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 10
Recent developments in materials for aluminum–air batteries: A review
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 32 (2015) 1–20

23. Examples of Review on Energy Storage 11
Recent advances of electrode materials for low-cost sodium-ion batteries towards practical application for grid energy storage
Energy Storage Materials 7 (2017) 130–151

24. Brainstorming What will be the key research areas?
How could we identify?
Where can we start from?
How could we cut in?