Opportunities for Energy Storage

In a future with abundant renewable power, significant energy storage capacity will be needed to balance supply and demand. With the electrification of both domestic and process heating, this poses many challenges. Batteries are limited by cost, scale and the coupling of energy and power capacity. Other forms of energy storage have the potential to reach the scales needed to meet these challenges, e.g. Compressed Air Energy Storage, Thermal and thermal electrical storage, thermochemical storage and chemical storage (hydrogen). Process heat can be as large a demand for industrial energy users as electricity, which can present synergistic opportunities for integrating these technologies into industrial processes.

This mini-symposium, hosted jointly by the IMechE’s process industry division, Cambridge and  Manchester Universities, will present talks from leading Industry and Academia on these exciting technologies and discuss their place in our energy future. Academic talks will present results from cutting-edge research and recent research projects. The industrial speakers will address the challenges of applying energy storage technologies in practice and at scale, and present the current state of the art. Delegates will be able to participate in our panel discussion, pose questions to experts and network with others who share an interest in this field.

Register: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/girton-college-engineering-ents/opportunities-for-energy-storage/e-oearjl

Programme

09:30 Registration and Coffee 10:00 Chair’s opening remarks and introduction
Stuart Scott, Professor of Energy and Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge
Yasser Mahmoudi Larimi, Professor of Thermal Energy Engineering University of Manchester 10:10 Thermal Energy Storage: E-Thermal Bank: an innovative solution to revolutionise the electrification of heat
Yongliang li, Professor in Thermal Energy Engineering, University of Birmingham 10.40 Decarbonising Industrial Steam Using Caldera's Thermal Energy Storage
James MacNaughton, CEO, Caldera 11:10 Coffee break & Networking 11:30 CAES for Net Zero UK
Seamus Garvey, Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics, Nottingham University 12:00 Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage
Yasser Mahmoudi Larimi, Professor of Thermal Energy Engineering University of Manchester 12:30 Lunch & Networking (1hr)  13:30 Thermochemical Energy Storage
Stuart Scott, Professor of Energy and Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge 14:00 Large scale hydrogen storage - salt caverns, depleted gas fields and other geological opportunities
John Aldersey-Williams, Senior Business Development Contractor,  Progressive Energy 14:30 Optimisation of Energy Storage Solution
Daniel Wells, National Consultant Specialist, Spirax Sarco 15:00 Refreshments 15:10 Optimisation of thermal and electrical storage
Mehmet Mercangoz, Reader in Industrial Systems, Imperial College London 15:40 Summary & interactive panel discussion 16:00 End of Meeting