Sunamp Limited

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Santokh Singh Gataora

Andrew John Bissell

Maurizio Zaglio

David Oliver

Kieran Doak

Jonathan Nicholson

There is herein defined phase change material (PCM) battery designs which are heated. More particularly, there is described integrally and/or internally located heating devices (e.g. electrical heating devices) in a range of heat batteries containing PCM. In particular, there is described a PCM heat battery comprising: a PCM enclosure capable of holding PCM; PCM located in the enclosure; an electronic control system for the PCM heat battery; a heating device located in the PCM heat battery; wherein the heating device is capable of heating and/or charging the PCM.

Internally heated phase change material heat batteries

There are herein described energy storage systems. More particularly there are provided thermal energy storage systems comprising battery assemblies containing phase change materials and a monitoring system therefor. In addition there are provided thermal stores comprising battery assemblies having integral control means for management of the thermal energy provided by the battery assembly.

Heat battery assemblies and monitoring system therefor

There is herein described a heat battery design for horizontal and vertical planes and a heat battery using a separate volume compensator. In particular, there is described an improved heat battery design which overcomes the problem of over-pressurisation within a battery cell during use.

Heat battery

The present invention relates to phase-change materials (PCM) which store and release thermal energy by undergoing melt/crystallisation cycles. More particularly, there is described a thermal storage system where sub-cooled phase change material (PCM) is nucleated via a controlled thermal region(s).

Active crystallisation control in phase change material thermal storage systems

The present invention provides an energy storage system () for a use with a boiler (). The energy storage system () comprises a plurality of thermal energy storage banks (). Each thermal energy storage bank () comprises phase changeable material having a predetermined phase transformation temperature. The energy storage system () also includes an extraction device () configured to recover waste energy from the boiler (). The extraction device () is operable to extract waste energy from the boiler () and feed that energy to at least one () of the thermal energy storage banks (). A controller () is arranged, in use, to activate the extraction device () in response to operation of the boiler ().

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Santokh Singh Gataora