Energy storage: Materials and processes--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

Yang, J., Lee, J. Y., Hall, P., & Ding, Y. (2014). Energy storage: Materials and processes. Particuology, 15, 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2014.04.001

Energy storage: Materials and processes

Jun Yang (Guest Editor) ^a, Jim Yang Lee (Guest Editor) ^b, Peter Hall (Guest Editor) ^c, Yulong Ding (Guest Editor) ^d *

a Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
b National University of Singapore, Singapore
c Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
d Birmingham Centre of Thermal Energy Storage, University of Birmingham, UK

10.1016/j.partic.2014.04.001

Volume 15, August 2014, Page 1

Available online 18 July 2014.

E-mail: y.ding@bham.ac.uk

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Abstract

Recent years have seen a significant surge in energy storage research and development across the globe. This is due to a number of factors including the increasingly grave environmental concerns, increased energy consumption, rising fuel prices, limited fossil fuel resources and the growing interest in the expansion of renewable energy utilization. Energy exists in different forms including electrical, magnetic, mechanical, chemical and thermal energy. These forms of energy have different grades with electrical energy being the highest and thermal energy the lowest. Energy storage refers to a process whereby excess energy is stored in a form that can be converted back to the same form or into a different form when needed. Many energy storage technologies have been developed over the past century. These technologies are at different stages of developments and can be broadly divided into two categories of chemical based (e.g. various batteries, flow batteries, supercapacitors) and physical based (e.g. pumped hydro, compressed air, liquid air, flywheel, thermal energy storage). Most of them are underpinned by advanced materials and process technologies, which make particle technology a highly relevant discipline for energy storage research and development.

This special issue of Particuology is devoted to the energy storage theme. There are fourteen contributions covering advanced materials and process technologies for supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries, thermal energy storage, solar cells and electrocatalysis. Particle science & technology is seen to have a great role to play in the area.

Finally, we would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to this special issue. We hope that the special issue will be of interest to the energy storage community. We also hope that this special issue will encourage more researchers in the particle technology community to pay more attention to the energy storage area.

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