HYSTORE featured at the Spring School “Process Systems Engineering for Energy Transition” 

 

From November 25th to 27th, Fabrizia Giordano from the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology hold a three-day workshop on Thermal Energy Storage with Phase Change Materials as part of the Spring School “Process Systems Engineering for Energy Transition”, organized by the Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil).

The workshop was an opportunity to present the innovation of ongoing research conducted at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology within the framework of the HYSTORE project to the next generation of Brazilian engineers pursuing their master’s in chemical, industrial, and process engineering. The students were introduced to PCM storage technologies through a broad program covering fundamentals, market applications, and cutting-edge research.

Particularly, they were introduced to the technical innovations of the “ALL-IN-ONE Solution”, a novel modular R290 heat pump water heater enhanced with PCM storage for domestic hot water in residential buildings, developed by AIT, Ochsner, Pink, Rubitherm and RAAL.

During the hands-on session of the workshop, the students were familiarized with the open-source PCM library slPCMlib developed by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The database is available at: https://slpcmlib.ait.ac.at/database, and offers computer code for over 230 PCMs for the numerical modeling of their thermal properties in Matlab, Python, Modelica/Dymola, and ANSYS Fluent. 

The overall Lectures followed the following topics calendar: 

  • Lecture 1 (25/11/2024): “Energy storage technologies: global trends and applications”
  • Lecture 2 (25/11/2024):  “Introduction to Phase Change Materials (PCM)”
  • Lecture 3 (26/11/2024):  “Phase transition models”
  • Lecture 4 (26/11/2024): “Exercises on PCM storage using the slPCMlib database”
  • Lecture 5 (27/11/2024):  “Current research on PCM storage for buildings”
  • Lecture 6 (27/11/2024):  “Thermophysical characterisation of PCM”

A kind thank you to the Federal University of Bahia, Prof. Karen Pontes, and the Department of Chemical Engineering for the excellent organization and warm hospitality.